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He’d started calling me every night to say goodnight if we weren’t together.

“I know, she was raving about the lingerie.”

“Your brother said, quote, ‘over my dead body’when she tried to buy one of our more risqué teddies.”

“Christ.”

“Oh, please, it’s fine when I wear it, but your sister can’t?”

“Christ,” he repeated.

I laughed.

“They liked you a lot.”

I lay back on my bed, stared at the ceiling. “You’re laying it on a little thick, Gage.”

“Maybe.” I could hear the smile in his voice. “But only because it took me too long to figure out what I wanted. I lost you once out of stupidity; but I’m not stupid—so I’m not going to be making those mistakes again. I intend to keep you Naomi LeBlanc, if you’ll have me.”

“The things you say,” I whispered, choking on my emotions, the feelings he was stirring up inside of me.

“Naomi,” he said after a beat, “will you come to my cousin’s wedding with me? It’s in Lafayette.”

Oh my God!

“Gage—”

“Baby, it’s gonna be very Cajun. Crawfish, zydeco, enough beer to drown a priest.”

“But—”

“Ryan and Kayla will be there, and my parents really want to see you again.”

“At a wedding?” I said hoarsely.

“Yeah.”

I pulled a pillow over my face and screamed into it.

“Naomi?”

“I’ll think about it.”

“Fair.”

“But if there are any guests who are of the alligator variety, I’m leaving.”

“I’d never let you face one alone.Promise.”

I didn’t say yes.

But I didn’t say no either.

Damn! I was back tomaybe…which so far meant I’d be going to his cousin’s wedding.

CHAPTER 29

Gage