Echoes at Dawn

want. But no one will ever love you more than I do. I’ll spend the rest of my life loving and protecting you with every breath I have.”

Tears filled Grace’s beautiful blue eyes. She reached up to touch his face and then leaned in to kiss him, uncaring of what was going on around them or that her sister was in the act of getting married.

“Yes, I’ll marry you, Eduardo Bezerra. And no one will ever love you more than I do.”

“I already know that,” he said gruffly. “You nearly died for me and don’t think I’ll ever forget that.”

“But you also gave me a reason to live,” she said in a quiet voice. “You came to me when I was at my lowest point and you wont and yuldn’t let me give up. You saved me, Rio. You made me stronger.”

He kissed her back, long and sweet. “I love you, Grace. I already love Elizabeth. I feel as though she’s my own. But I’ll also want to give her a few brothers and sisters down the road.”

Grace smiled. “I’d like that. I think you’d be a whiz at changing diapers.”

He grinned then. “Bet your ass I would.”