Rory moved forward so he was standing beside Cooper. “We want you back, Ivy. We want you in our life.”
“Just like that? After seven years? I might be married.”
“Are you?” Cooper asked, his gaze lowering to my left hand.
I couldn’t lie to them about that. There was no ring, no obvious proof I belonged to someone else. I shook my head.
“We’ve known all this time you’re the one for us. We aim to prove it to you, if you’ll let us.”
“Just like that?” I shook my head frantically, unable to come up with the right words to make them understand. They weren’t supposed to be here. They were no longer a part of my life. “Where have you been all this time?”
Cooper’s eyes shuttered and Rory’s jaw tightened. “War.”
Rory’s one word said it all, answered so many questions for me. War. These two had
