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her. He cradled her face in his hands. “I told you before. There isn’t any place I’d rather be than here with you, Princess.”
    He kissed her then. A slow, soft kiss that fired all her nerves and reminded her of the way they usually spent time together. She moaned when he thrust his tongue into her mouth. But he didn’t increase the pace. Didn’t touch her anywhere but her face and Virginia knew this kiss was different. That what they were doing now had crossed another line.
    They’d gone from one night of hot, sweaty, no strings sex to exclusive fuck buddies to…this.
    And Virginia had a sinking feeling that this was going to rock her world far more than Carter already had.
    ***
    “Is this your wedding photo?” Carter asked. He’d noticed it while she’d been out getting her hair and nails done. He glanced over his shoulder at Ginny. She had one hand on the back of the couch while she slipped her foot into the sexiest high heel he’d ever laid eyes on.
    “Mmm?” Ginny looked his way. “Oh. Yes.”
    “Why is it still on the wall?” He knew she didn’t have any feelings for her ex. Knew she wasn’t pining after the man, but why had she not taken down the picture of them on their wedding day?
    “I, um.” She shrugged one bare shoulder—the thin strap of her dress, the only covering on her bronzed skin, slipping off. “I had the place decorated just after we were married and the decorator put it up. I don’t ever notice it.”
    Carter turned back to the picture and studied the woman in the fluffy white dress. “It doesn’t suit you.”
    “What?”
    “The dress. It’s not you.”
    She moved beside him. “Yeah, well, a lot about that day wasn’t me.”
    “What do you mean?” Didn’t every bride plan and execute the wedding of their dreams?
    “My mother and father paid so things were done their way.” She nodded at the picture. “Including the dress.”
    He didn’t understand this Ginny—the one who let others dictate what she should do. “And you didn’t think to argue? It was your wedding.”
    Ginny laughed. “And what a waste it was.” She turned towards him. “I’m glad it wasn’t my dream wedding because Colin certainly turned out to be anything but my dream man.”
    “And what’s your dream man?”
    Her head tilted to the side, her eyes narrowed. “Are you trying to get the inside scoop?”
    He just grinned at her.
    “Mmm. Well, he’d want a lot of what I want. The usual: house, kids, dog. And he’d want me—love me—with everything he had. I’m not settling for second best ever again.”
    “You deserve that and more, Princess. And I’m just the man to help you get it.” Carter reached up and took the picture off the wall.
    “What are you doing?”
    “I’m helping you.”
    “What? How?”
    “By removing reminders of a past you never should have endured.” He leaned the frame against the wall at their feet then turned towards her and grabbed both her hands. “You might think this is quick and really, it is, but then it isn’t. We’ve known each other over two years now. You’ve told me things I don’t think you’ve told anyone else. We’ve done things I know you’ve done with no one else.”
    Her fingers trembled in his and he held them tighter.
    “Virginia May Wexworth, I want to marry you. I want to help you buy that house, and make those kids, and choose a dog. I want to love you with all I have and more.”
    Ginny’s mouth dropped open, flapped a few times before she snapped it shut again.
    Carter grinned. “I want those things, and I’m going to want those same things from now until the day I die. With you. Starting now.”
    “Oh my God are you insane?” she breathed out in a rush.
    “Yes. Insanely in love with you.”
    “But…”
    “What?”
    “It was meant to be just hot, sweaty sex—”
    “Oh, there’ll still be plenty of that.” He grinned.
    “Carter.”
    He could hear the regret in her voice and he wasn’t about to accept it,