“OK,” Jack said, taking a deep breath. “I’m ready.”
“Peggy’s going to text me when they leave your house,” Meg told him.
Dan grinned. “We can hang out with you and help you wait.”
Jack’s smile was sheepish. “Am I that easy to read?”
“Clear as glass,” Meg told him.
When her phone buzzed a few minutes later, Jack jolted. At Meg’s nod, he knew Cait and Peggy were on their way. When Meg got the text that they were almost to town, she and Dan left, and that’s when Jack started pacing.
***
“Why don’t you tell me what’s really going on, Peggy?” Cait knew something wasn’t right.
Peggy laughed. “You and that imagination of yours.”
Peggy turned right onto Main Street, and Cait tried again, “Would you please tell me?”
Peggy parked in front of the diner. “I know nothing,” she said, getting out of the car without looking back.
“Peggy McCormack!” Cait yelled. “Tell me what’s going on!”
Peggy shook her head, smiled, and pointed toward Mulcahys. “Well, that’s helpful,” Cait grumbled, walking toward the shop—and that’s when she noticed the flowers leaning against the door.
“Oh,” she said. “He got me flowers…lilacs…I love lilacs.”
As she grabbed a hold of the railing, she noticed the wedding bells and the sign attached to a wide length of white satin ribbon. Follow the ribbon and your heart—Marry me Cait, Love, Doc.
Tears filled her eyes as she finally noticed the ribbon looped around every single shade tree lining the street, leading the way to Jack Gannon’s office. She didn’t realize she was crying until she’d run down Main and started pounding on his door.
“Jack, you crazy…”
His door opened, and there he was. The auburn-haired, broad-shouldered hunk of a man who’d captured her heart in the middle of Eden Church Road when he chased that fuzzy little puppy right into her arms.
“…wonderful, adorable man.”
His blue eyes deepened to sapphire as he rasped, “So, does that mean, yes?”
Joy filled her. She wrapped her arms around his neck, kissing him until they were both weak from lack of air.
“Yes!”
He was grinning as he lowered his mouth to hers.