“I’ll get you a ring, as soon as we can get to the mainland. You can pick any ring you want. Sky’s the limit.”

“I don’t need the sky when I’ve already got the sun and the moon.”

Didn’t she know exactly how to stop his heart? “You know what the best day of my life was?” he asked.

“The day you met me?”

“That was second best. You know what the first one was?”

“The day I let you sleep with me?”

“That’s tied for second.”

“Second?”

“Stay with me here, and remember my propensity for messing things up. The very best day of my entire life was the day I caught my fiancée in bed with my best man.”

Kara’s brows furrowed with confusion. “That was the best day of your life?”

“It certainly was. If that hadn’t happened, I might’ve married the wrong woman, and that would’ve ruined my life, because I never would’ve met you on the second-best day of my life.”

“Your logic needs some work, Counselor, but your point is well taken. I guess the best day of my life was the day I found out that Kelly and Matt had been fooling around behind my back, because it sent me out here, where I found you—or where you found me and drove me crazy until I had mercy on you and went out with you.”

“Is that the story our grandchildren are going to hear?”

“Is there any other version of that story?”

“I guess there isn’t. Luckily, my persistence is as legendary as my argumentativeness.”

“How lucky for me.”

“So if your sister and her husband did you a favor by stabbing you in the back, maybe we should return to the dock so you can introduce them to your extremely handsome and very, very successful—as well as famous, did I mention I’m famous?—fiancé, and you can have the last laugh.”

Kara’s silent laughter filled him with unreasonable joy. “You are so freaking full of yourself.”

“Is anything I said a lie? Am I handsome?”

“You’re not ugly.”

“Am I successful?”

“You’re not a total loser.”

“Am I famous?”

“In your own mind, for sure.”

He cupped her bottom and pulled her in tight against him. “Let’s go face them and show them they’ve got no power over you anymore.”

“Yes, let’s do that, but not until she’s had a few hours to broil in the hot sun.”

“What about the baby?”

“She’ll keep him in the shade with Matt while she paces the dock waiting for me to return after someone tells her we’re out on the boat. If I know Kelly, she won’t be satisfied until she gets her moment of drama.”

“What do you propose we do in the meantime?”