“There’s plenty for me to do on the ranch,” she said. “And it feels exactly right to be here with you. If I decide later that I want something more, I can always take cases on the side. There’s bound to be plenty of work for a private investigator in Eagle County.”

Kade had grinned and kissed her.

Her mind returned to the present as they made a sweeping turn around the dance floor, Kade’s cheek pressed to hers. “You look so damn beautiful,” he said. “You have any idea how happy you’ve made me?”

Ellie smiled. “You make me happy too, Kade.”

“I’m going to make you even happier tonight.” He grinned and kissed her, hot and sweet, giving her a sample of what to expect.

Ellie laughed.

The music swelled, and other couples joined them. Alejandro, handsome as sin in black jeans and a black western-cut jacket, swept Maria onto the floor. The beautiful, black-haired young woman he was going to marry beamed up at him. There was going be another ranch wedding in the spring.

Kade’s friend, Sam Bridger, was there, dancing with Libby Hale, the little blonde he’d told Kade he planned to marry. Maisie Yates was there, flirting with the ranch hands. Currently Slate Crawford seemed to be the center of her attention. Wyatt was there, Roy, Riley, Seth and his fiancée, and Turtle Farley.

Half the town of Coffee Springs was enjoying the party. Even Jonas Murray had been invited. Kade no longer seemed worried about Jonas or any other man. He was the man she was marrying, and she had shown him in every way a woman possibly could that she wasn’t interested in anyone but him.

As the song came to a close, he took her hand and led her off the dance floor.

“I think your friend Zoe is looking for you,” Kade said.

Ellie’s attention swung to her tiny blond friend. “Looks like Chad has gone for fresh drinks,” she said. “Zoe’s probably hoping for a little girl talk.”

Kade nodded, smiled. “I’ll be over there with my brothers.”

Ellie went up on her toes and kissed his cheek, then walked over to visit her friend. Kade headed for the bar, where his brothers, Gage and Edge, stood sipping Kade’s favorite whiskey, Strana-han’s Rocky Mountain single malt.

Gage was as tall as Kade, but brawnier, with the same dark brown hair. Unlike Kade, his eyes were a piercing shade of blue, made even more dramatic by his darkly suntanned skin. Gage had been all over the world on one adventure or another. His company in Denver specialized in finding lost treasure, lost bits of history, sunken ships or just about anything else.