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“Wejustgot engaged,” Finn said, laughing. “We haven’t planned anything yet.”
“But you’ll consider the bar, right? Because that would be perfect. This is where your love story happened. This is where it should be celebrated.”
I looked at Finn, and he looked at me, and we bothsmiled.
“We’ll think about it,” Finn said.
“That’s not a no!” Benji was already pulling out his phone. “I need to text Priya. She’s going to be so smug. She called this. She said you’d be engaged by the end of the year.”
Diego appeared with a bottle of champagne. Glasses were already making their way around to every customer as Jacks and Benji began uncorking bottles they’d pulled out of who-knew-where.
“I may have told Mark to have this ready. Call it my engagement present to you both,” Diego said with a grin. “Chase, you did good.”
We kissed again, and somewhere in the background I heard Benji say, “Okay, but seriously, we need to talk about the bachelor parties because I have ideas—”
And I thought,This. This is everything.
This messy, chaotic, beautiful life we were building together, this bar full of friends who’d become family, this man who’d looked at me on a sidewalk nine months ago and somehow saw something worth keeping . . .
This was home.
This was forever.
And I couldn’t wait.
