by KB Winters
“All right, fine, but I better not have to wait too long. Otherwise, I’m going to have to tickle the answers out of this one,” I said, reaching out to tickle Jax’s neck.
Jace braced a hand on the back of the chair and pushed up. “You heard the woman, let’s get the party started!”
He led me out to the car and made me give my keys to Hilda. She drove my car back to town, leaving me with Jace and Jax. Jace made me put on a blindfold ten minutes into the drive. Jax thought it was hysterical and couldn’t stop cackling from the back seat. We rode on for another half an hour, and when the car came to a stop, Jace led me, not letting me take off the blindfold just yet. A few minutes later, Jax took my hand and led me the final steps.
“Okay,” Jace’s voice purred in my ear. “Now you can look.” He took the blindfold away and when I opened my eyes, a chorus of “Congratulations!” broke out. I blinked twice, taking in the crowd before me. We were standing in the main entrance of the diner, but it was packed wall to wall with people wearing party hats and cheering for me. There was a huge banner hanging from the ceiling and party streamers all over the place. I looked around at all the beaming faces and realized that practically the whole town was packed inside. All of the usual customers, Patrice, all the line cooks and hostesses, Hilda was among them, her daughter on her right. Even my parents were waiting for me, offering well wishes with everyone else.
I turned back to Jace, my mouth still dropped open in shock. “You did this?”
He nodded. “Well, with a little help,” he nodded down at Jax. “He was the decorator for the event.”
Jax jumped up and down and pointed out all the streamers and balloons.
“Thank you both.” I turned to the crowd. “Thank you all!”
I mingled with everyone, and had a few glasses of pricey champagne that Patrice had supplied. My parents even hugged me and told me they were proud of me—at which point, I completely lost it and started bawling. The night was full of laughter, love, and celebration. Jace hung back and let me enjoy the party, chatting with people and keeping Jax occupied and entertained.
It was the best party I’d been to in a long time, and the only surprise party that had ever been given in my honor. I thanked Jace at least a dozen times on the way back home after everyone had gone home.
“The real fun is gonna be getting this guy to go to sleep,” Jace joked when we pulled into the driveway. “He had a lot of cake tonight.”
I laughed. “I’ll put some extra lavender oil in the bath water.”
“We do have one more thing to show you. Right bud?”
“Yeah!” Jax cheered from his car seat.
I cocked an eyebrow at Jace but didn’t bother asking what it was. I knew he wouldn’t tell me. He liked teasing me too much to give it up that easily.
We got upstairs and Jace put Mickey out in the back yard. I was about to round up Jax for his bath, when Jace stopped me. “Hold on. One minute.” He squatted down next to Jax. “Should we show her what we did? Our art project?”
I smiled as Jax started cheering again. A few weeks before Jace had flown to Texas for his surgery, Jax had informed him that he wanted to be an artist when he grew up, just like Jace, and they had begun working on little projects every day. I sat down on the couch and opened my hands. “I’d love to see it!”
Jace turned to Jax. “You wanna go get it, bud?”
Jax scampered off down the hall, and came back wearing his little backpack. He opened it and pulled out a piece of paper. He gave it to me, and I unfolded it. “This is beautiful!” I exclaimed. My eyes teared up as I traced the picture Jax had drawn, showing Jace, me, and him as rough, child-like stick figure scribbles. Jace’s handwriting was underneath each person, labeling it, and at the bottom it said “Our Family” in beautiful scroll lettering—like a fancy tattoo.
“You did this?”
“I’ve been practicing.” Jace replied, then he smiled and sat down next to me. “Well, Jax drew this on his own, and when I asked him what it was, he said it was family. His family.”
“That’s amazing.” I reached for Jax and drew him to me, pressing a kiss to the side of his face. I was still holding him in one arm, and pulled Jace in with the other, the tears falling as I held the two loves of my life in my arms.
“We had a conversation about family, and what it means, and came up with a question for you,” Jace continued. I released them and turned to look at him as he slid from the couch, kneeling before me.
“Oh my God…Jace?” My hands flew to cover my mouth.
“You got it, bud?” Jace asked, and Jax smiled as he produced a small velvet box from his backpack. “Good job! Thanks for holding onto it for me.” He turned his attention back to me. “Kat, you are the love of my life. I’ve spent most of my life wrestling with questions, looking for answers, but now, everything is simple, and I just have one question left. Will you marry me?”
I burst into tears, frantically nodding through the flood. “Yes, yes, yes!”
Jace popped open the box to reveal a solitaire diamond sparkler. He slipped it on my finger and I leaned over to kiss him.
Jax jumped around, whooping and hollering, and we all laughed. “Family!” He cheered.
Jace turned to look at me. “Family.”
I nodded and took his damaged hand in mine. “Yes. Family. Forever and always.”
~ THE END ~
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Acknowledgments
Thank you! I love you all and thank you for making my books a success!! I appreciate each and every one of you.
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About The Author
KB Wint
ers is a Wall Street Journal and USA Today Bestselling Author of steamy hot books about Bikers, Billionaires, Bad Boys and Badass Military Men. Just the way you like them. She has an addiction to caffeine, tattoos and hard-bodied alpha males. The men in her books are very sexy, protective and sometimes bossy, her ladies are...well...bossier!
Living in sunny Southern California, with her five kids and three fur babies, this embarrassingly hopeless romantic writes every chance she gets!
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