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  ‘I have to,’ Jed said. ‘Because I’m not working alongside a woman who turned down my proposal.’ And he took out a box containing a ring but she didn’t even look at it properly, just looked straight back at him. ‘And if she doesn’t turn it down then I’m working in the same department as my wife and sister-in-law. That would be way too complicated and I already have trouble enough concentrating on work when you’re around. So which one is it?’

  ‘The complicated one,’ Jasmine said, and watched as he put a ring on her finger.

  ‘It won’t be complicated for long,’ he assured her. ‘I’m taking time off before I start my new job and for the next few weeks I’m going to take some time to get to know that son of yours and you’re going to get to know me properly. We’ll go to Sydney and meet my family. We’ll just take some time. I don’t want you to feel you’re being rushed into anything again. We’ll wait as long as it takes for you to feel okay with it.’

  ‘I already am.’ She had never been more sure of anything in her life. ‘And I don’t feel as if I’m rushing into things this time. I know.’

  ‘I know too,’ Jed said. ‘And you’re coming to look for somewhere to live with me. Midway, maybe? Or we can just carry on as we are and I’ll sort out the travel, but I promise you that you and Simon will always be my first consideration.’

  She believed him, she really did, and her heart filled not just for her own happiness but because her son was going to have such an amazing man to help raise him, for all the happy times to come.

  ‘Mum’s going to have another heart attack when she finds out.’

  ‘She already knows,’ Jed said. ‘What, do you think I’d ask you to marry me without asking for her permission?’

  ‘You asked her?’ So that was what her mum had been banging on about not dropping her hours or losing her career—she already knew.

  ‘Of course I asked her.’

  ‘You’re an old-fashioned thing, aren’t you?’

  ‘Yep,’ Jed said. ‘But I’m filthy-minded too. I want to do you in your wedding dress.’

  She blinked.

  ‘I’m sure you will.’

  ‘I mean this one.’

  She just about died of embarrassment, right there on the spot. ‘You knew?’

  ‘Your mum told me.’ He smiled, and then pulled her back into his arms. ‘And now, seeing as I’m almost family, you can tell me what’s going on with Penny.’ She started to, but he stopped her.

  ‘Not yet.’ He was kissing her face, kissing her mouth, and making her feel wanted and beautiful in her wedding dress for the very first time, as he told her just how much the future was theirs. ‘We’ve got ages.’

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