by Amy Gamet
Logan stopped to grab a shovel from the back before joining them. “Pleasure to meet you, sir.”
“You a SEAL, boy?”
“No, sir. NSA.”
“You look like a SEAL.”
Logan grinned from one side of his mouth, the expression making him look even younger. Mac stood, his knees reminding him just how much older than this kid he really was. “Well, gentlemen, it ain’t gonna get any cooler out here. Should we get started?”
They worked for hours, sampling the soil throughout the property to see which areas had most likely been disturbed. The answer was an oddly shaped ring that circled the house like a lazy river. That was where the power equipment would dig the next morning.
Logan drove down to a corner store and brought back a styrofoam cooler full of lemonade that tasted better than any liquid Mac could remember, and they sat on the bowing wooden steps in the shade of the wraparound porch. Doc’s cell phone rang, and he wandered off, his tone of voice clearly saying he was talking to a woman.
“Thanks for coming down here today,” Mac said. Cowboy had worked as hard as he had—maybe harder.
“You got it,” said Cowboy. “We’ll stick around for the morning. Make sure your guys get off on the right foot.”
“I appreciate that.”
Logan rejoined them, his brow low over his eyes. “Something happen between you and Charlotte?” he asked Cowboy.
“Was that her?”
“No, Gemma. What’s going on?”
“Nothing you need to worry about.”
“When my sister is unhappy, I worry.”
“I’m not discussing this with you. I’m dating your sister, Logan. Not you.”
“Yeah, and she’s complaining to my wife—”
Cowboy’s head snapped up. “Because I want to marry her, asshole.”
Logan leaned back. “You do?”
“Hell yeah, I do. So she’s fighting with me about everything under the sun to prove to me we shouldn’t get hitched.” He shook his head. “Why am I fucking talking to you about this?” Cowboy took out his phone and pressed a button.
“Who are you calling?” asked Logan.
“Shut up. I’m not talking to you anymore.” He held up his hand in Logan’s direction and spoke into the phone. “It’s time to stop pussyfooting around this and take the bull by the horns.” He paused. “Hey, it’s me. You won’t answer my calls, so I’ll do this one your way. You want to fight about something? Let’s fight about this. I want to marry you, Charlotte. I want to show the world how much I love you and change your name to mine. Take vows in a church and make that dickhead brother of yours be my goddamn best man just to make him suffer. So instead of bitching to other people about me, you call Gemma up and you tell her that. Or better yet, leave her out of this altogether and just say yes.” He exhaled fully. “I love you more than anyone in the world, and you can take that to the bank. Talk later.”
Mac chuckled and drank his lemonade. This was the good stuff, what life was all about. Loving a good woman and making a life together. Despite his mistakes, he knew that much was true.
Logan grinned at Cowboy. “You want me to be your best man?”
Cowboy whipped his empty lemonade bottle at him, hitting him in the arm when Logan twisted. “Idiot.”
Logan laughed and picked it up.
“You could help me, you know,” said Cowboy. “Going to take an act of God to make that woman marry me. I could use all the help I can get.”
“Let me think about it.”
Cowboy turned to Mac. “Assholes. I work with assholes.”
Mac shook his head. “This is the good stuff, Leo. You just don’t know it yet.” He gazed back over the yard, now pockmarked with holes, the smile falling from his face as he imagined what might lie beneath.
Maybe Ellie wasn’t here at all.
Maybe she was alive. Maybe she could forgive him for the things he’d done. Maybe there was still a space in her heart for the man she’d once loved. And maybe, just maybe, there would be good times in Mac’s future again.
He’d just have to wait and see what tomorrow would bring.
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Also by Amy Gamet
Including Series Order
HERO Force
Stranded with the SEAL
Sheltered by the SEAL
Harbored by the SEAL
Married to the SEAL
Justice for the SEAL
Targeted by the SEAL
Kidnapped by the SEAL
Forever with the SEAL
Box Set: HERO Force Books One - Three
Box Set: HERO Force Books Four - Six
Box Set: HERO Force Books Seven, Eight, and Shattered SEALs Book One
Box Set: HERO Force Complete Series
HERO Force: Shattered SEALs
Protecting his Witness
Resisting his Target
Holding his Hostage
Love and Danger
Meant for Her
The One Who Got Away
Artful Deception
Meghan’s Wish
Box Set: Love and Danger Complete Series
Love on the Lake
Treasure on Moon Lake
Fortune on Moon Lake
Return to Moon Lake
Box Set: Love on the Lake Complete Series
About the Author
Amy Gamet is a USA Today bestselling author who lives in upstate New York with her husband, children, too many pets and the occasional foster animal or litter. She likes to swim in the sunshine, make jewelry, and lobbies professionally for household remodeling projects. She owns an unusual number of brightly colored T-shirts and black yoga pants, and her children always ask who’s coming to visit when she runs the vacuum cleaner.
www.amygamet.com
