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  “I promise. I will never say you didn’t warn me any more than I will say I told you so. Which, you know, I could say a lot.”

  She couldn’t help but laugh at that. It was true. She was overly cautious with their fledgling business.

  They’d made the plunge a year ago. They’d opened their advertising firm and had begun with the pizzeria around the corner. Radio, print—sales had gone up, and the next thing they knew, they had a regional insurance company, a car lot, and a nanny service. It wasn’t much, and it sure wasn’t the big national accounts they were both used to, but it was a start. And it was their work, their vision.

  Currently, they had a few bids out. They’d just moved into an apartment a few blocks away. They had a fantastic life together, and they were happy.

  Pure, unadulterated happiness.

  “I’m going to call Farrah now and give her the good news.”

  “Better you than me,” Chelsea muttered.

  He smiled and kissed her forehead. “I’m going to invite her to the wedding too.”

  “Well for heaven’s sake, Ian, why don’t you ask her if she’ll be our nanny?”

  He arched one gold brow. “Hey…”

  “Don’t even,” she warned him, and she smiled. “I’m going to go pick up some lunch. How about Thai?”

  Ian sighed and took a seat at his desk. “I will be so happy when that baby is born and we can get off the eat-around-the-world track.”

  “Yes or no?” Chelsea asked, resting her hand on her belly.

  Ian smiled at her. “Yes. Whatever you want, Chels. You know that.”

  Yes, she knew that.

  “While you’re out, pick up some more Lean Cuisine,” he said, and he grabbed her bottom, giving it an affectionate squeeze.

  She went out onto the street and looked up at the crystalline blue sky. She thought she’d never seen it so blue.

  She and Ian were a study of nevers. They’d never seen a blizzard like the one that trapped them in the Grabber-Paulson suite. They’d never walked out on good paying jobs. Ian had told her he’d never thought he’d be this guy, the family guy, that he’d never even known he wanted it.

  And Chelsea? Chelsea had never realized a love could run so deep that hope could buoy a person so completely.

  She’d never been so happy.

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  About the Author

  Julia London is the New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestselling author of more than thirty novels, including the Homecoming Ranch contemporary series, the Cabot Sisters historical romance series, and numerous other works. She is a six-time finalist for the prestigious RITA Award for excellence in romantic fiction and an RT Reviewers’ Choice award recipient for Best Regency Historical Romance. She lives in Austin, Texas.