He looked back up at the mansion, the U-shape layout wrapping around them, a protective cocoon of family present to help them resolve their differences and find the happiness they’d struggled to capture on their own. Being a Medina might have come with strings attached, but they were also the kind of ties that tethered him. Grounded him.
She curled her arms around his waist and pressed her cheek against his chest. “What are we going to do about my brother?”
“We?” He tipped her face up. “That’s the first time you’ve asked for my help, you know.”
“I can’t give up on my brother, but I admit, my old way of dealing with his problems wasn’t effective.” She looped her arms around his neck. “Perhaps we could talk through some tough-love alternatives for him. We could work together. You don’t have to carry the worries of the whole world all by yourself. And neither do I anymore, thanks to you.”
He smiled. “I can definitely live with that. On one condition…”
“And that would be?”
Looking into her beautiful blue eyes, Javier said the words he’d been waiting to share since the day he’d met her. “Marry me. Be my wife, my lover, the mother of my children. Share your life with me so I can show you every single day just how very much I love you.”
Her smile shone brighter than the sun rising over the ocean. “Yes, yes, yes and a million times yes to everything. I love you and will marry you, and I look forward to waking up with you every morning for the rest of my life.”
He sealed his mouth to Victoria’s as firmly as he sealed his promise of forever loving her.
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