Darkness Torn Asunder
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Jana winced. “But they seem happy together.”
“Yeah, they do. And that opened the floodgates for the rest of the Paladins.” He leaned in close. “There are even a couple of Paladins married to women from Kalithia, that alien world. And one guy’s sister is married to one of the Kalith warriors I met.”
“Really? That’s amazing.”
It was time to lay it all out there. He pulled the box out of his pocket and slid it across the table in front of Jana. She hesitated for the longest time before reaching down to lift the lid to stare at the simple ring nestled in velvet. “So I’m thinking if the organization can survive all of that, then a Paladin marrying his nurse practitioner shouldn’t be a problem for them. That is, if she loves him enough to take on the job.”
Jana didn’t immediately answer him, and her eyes filled up with tears. Coming back from fatal wounds had been easier to handle than watching her try to find a way to let him down easy. He grabbed a napkin and stuffed it in her hand. “Don’t cry, Jana. I’ll understand if it’s all too much for you.”
She dabbed at her eyes and laughed. “I’m not crying because of that, Emmett. I spent much of the afternoon writing a long list of reasons why you’d be a fool to walk away from what we have together. All that work for nothing.”
Emmett leaned close enough to kiss her. “Not if it helped convince you that we belong together.” He took the ring out of the box and slipped it on her finger. It wasn’t easy, not with both of them shaking like leaves. “I love you, Jana, and I’m taking that as a yes.”
“It is a yes, and I do love you, Emmett.”
Once the ring was safely on her finger, marking her as his, he kissed her. Evidently Dan correctly interpreted what that meant, because he started shouting, “Champagne for everyone! She said yes!”
So much for a private moment, but Emmett didn’t care. There’d be plenty of time to show Jana how much he loved her later, when they were alone. He stood and tugged her up for a bone-crunching hug. She laughed as he twirled them around. By the time he set her back down, Dan was there holding out two glasses of champagne.
Emmett took his and held it up to make a toast. “To you, Jana York.”
Jana clinked her glass against his. “No, Emmett Sloan: to us!”
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Alexis Morgan has always been an avid reader, and she loves spending her days with hunky heroes and gutsy heroines. The author of the Paladins series and the Talions series for Pocket Books, she has published more than forty books, novellas, and short stories, including contemporary romances, American West historicals, and paranormal romances. She has been nominated for numerous industry awards, including the RITA from the Romance Writers of America, the top award in the romance genre.
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