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“That was part of my pretty speech,” Neil said. “The one I’d planned for the hotel, but you ruined it by stealing my proposal.”

Joshua shook his head, laughter pushing past his tears. “Neil!”

“I know. I’m an ass.” He smiled. “Let’s get back to the hotel room. I want to have hot, passionate, newly engaged sex with my fiancé. Also, I’m starving.”

Joshua kissed Neil again, feeling the heat of him under his palms. As they walked through the Paris night, hands entwined, Joshua looked up at the sky, wondering at the universe where this was his life.

How impossible. How beautiful. How mysterious. How ‘God only knows.’

And despite all the pain they’d been through to get there, he wouldn’t change a thing.

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