“Welcome aboard.” The attendant checked out her ticket. “Your seat is close to the again. Subsequent to that tall good-looking man within the cowboy hat.”

Bridget glanced towards the rear of the airplane and noticed them. Her coronary heart almost exploded with pleasure.

Neither man had seen her but. Mark had claimed the window seat and was watching the exercise out on the runway. Matt was sitting subsequent to the aisle together with his head thrown again, his eyes closed. The seat between them—her seat—was empty.

She walked straight as much as their row and hitched her purse increased on her arm. “Excuse me. I feel that’s my seat.”

Each males jerked on the sound of her voice. Her smile was so enormous it harm her face, after which a sudden bolt of panic jerked her. What if their provide hadn’t been honest? What in the event that they didn’t need?—

She didn’t have an opportunity to complete her thought. Matt stood up shortly, bumping his head on the overhead compartment. That didn’t cease him from giving a loud whoop. The chatter within the airplane died at his loud exclamation and Bridget noticed one of many flight attendants look their approach with a apprehensive expression.

He hugged her. A tough, full-body embrace that drove all of the air from her lungs.

Mark’s voice reduce by the silence. “Cease hogging her.”

Matt launched her, serving to her to her seat. As soon as she was in place, Mark wrapped his arm round her shoulders and pulled her as shut because the armrest between them would permit. “Goddamn, you’re a sight for sore eyes.”

She pulled again and cupped his beloved face along with her hand. “Ditto. I couldn’t allow you to guys depart with out saying one thing.”

Matt shortly claimed one in all her fingers, leaning nearer. The airline security video started to play, however they ignored it. “What did you overlook to say, sweetheart?”

“I wished to know in case your provide nonetheless stands?—”

“It stands,” Mark interjected shortly. “For you. All the time.”

“I’d like to maneuver to Wyoming and begin a life with you guys. You saved my life, stored me secure, however greater than that, you introduced me to life. I’m unsure I knew what it meant to stay till I met you.”

Matt leaned over and pressed a kiss on her cheek. “You probably did the identical for us, Bridge. Mark and I have been simply residing, slogging our approach by the every day grind with out even figuring out how a lot was lacking from our lives. You then fell down at our ft—actually—and it grew to become apparent we had no concept what happiness was. You opened our eyes to some fairly wonderful potentialities. Now I can’t even think about a life with out you, with out Mark. We match collectively. The three of us.”

Mark squeezed her hand. “You’re ours, Bridget. Our metropolis cowgirl. We’ll hold you secure, all the time.”

Matt reclaimed her consideration. “And heat and comfortable and—” He winked at her as he added “well-fed” to his romantic listing.

Bridget may see a couple of passengers wanting of their path, may learn the confusion on their faces as they tried to determine the connection dynamics.

She grinned. That they had numerous issues to work out, however she knew they’d. “I do know now that all the things’s going to be all proper. There’s nothing the three of us can’t do, since you love me. And I like you.”

Epilogue

Rodney sat on the entrance porch of the James Ranch and watched the solar set behind the mountains. An early spring was upon them and he was benefiting from the hotter climate, needing a respite from being cooped up inside.

“I questioned the place you disappeared to.” Bridget got here exterior and joined him on the porch swing.

He may hear the tv enjoying within the background. “You’re lacking the film.”

She shrugged. “I’ve seen it earlier than.”

The James household was watching The Hangover, curled up in consolation on the couches and chairs, consuming popcorn, laughing at Zach Galifinakis.

“So that you got here again.” Rodney hadn’t been stunned when Bridget arrived in Saratoga two days in the past, hand in hand along with her good-looking cowboys. Anybody may take a look at them and know they have been meant to be collectively.

She regarded out on the ranch. He was struck by the utter contentment on her face. After months of residing collectively, he wasn’t positive he’d ever seen the true Bridget. The one sitting beside him now. Relaxed, complacent, peaceable. It was a pleasant change from the fixed worry and suspicion that had resided there earlier than the trial.

“Do you suppose I used to be loopy to drop all the things in New York and comply with Matt and Mark again right here?”

“Not loopy in any respect, except you depend loopy in love.”

She grinned. “I don’t remorse the choice. Despite the fact that my mom flipped out and yelled at me for 2 hours on the cellphone for quitting my job with out having one other one lined up. She additionally wasn’t too happy to listen to I’d adopted a person I’d simply met out west on what she views as a lark.”

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