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  “Yes, I think he likes you in anything,” I said with a smile. “Get it. You have an anniversary to celebrate.”

  “Nothing quite like six months together,” she said, then trotted to the register, ready to buy.

  When Sidney moved to Vegas earlier this year, we’d reconnected in the most random of ways, bumping into each other at a noodle shop. She was there with Antony, and I didn’t want to interrupt, but they’d both called me over.

  And Sidney and I had become fast friends. We had a lot in common—we were determined to make it in our careers, and we’d both moved on from the past. Let go of crummy relationships. And embraced our new ones.

  She and Antony were ridiculously happy together, and that summed up my life with Jake too.

  Business was good, love was good, and all my friendships were fabulous too, with old friends and new ones as well.

  Maybe that was another secret of this city—if you let people in, you could truly enjoy everything it had to offer.

  That was what I was doing. Living and loving to the fullest.

  Epilogue

  Jake

  * * *

  I adjusted my bow tie, smoothed a hand over my lapel, and grinned at my crew. “Admit it. I’m a handsome devil,” I said to my sister.

  Christine scoffed, arching a brow. “A demon maybe. Handsome demon?”

  Adam chuckled, clapping my shoulder. “Handsome goblin.”

  Finn jumped into the fray. “Handsome hell creature.”

  I rolled my eyes. “Keep ’em coming. Nothing can get me down today.”

  Today, I was marrying the love of my life, with my sister, my parents, and my best friends by my side. My nephew was here too, and Carson made quite a handsome groomsman.

  But once I headed to the front of the ballroom at The Extravagant, joining the justice of the peace, I barely saw them.

  As the music played, I only had eyes for my bride.

  The woman who’d be playing the role of my wife, my lover, and my best friend forever.

  As she walked down the aisle, looking radiant in white, I knew I was the luckiest man in the world.

  She was the greatest gift.

  And the most decadent one.

  * * *

  THE END

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