“I had this all planned out.” It had been so perfect. “But I can’t quite remember how it went.”
“You mean your proposal of marriage, where you tell me you can’t live without me, and we’ll work out all the logistics, because in your heart you know we’ll both be happier if we’re together, even if certain sacrifices have to be made? That part?”
“Yeah.” He nodded, grinning back at her. “That part, but there was more.”
“You mean the part about how much you love me, and that you can’t imagine finding what we have together with anyone else?”
“Yeah. That part,” he agreed, settling back against the hot tub and just enjoying the view. “You’re pretty smart, aren’t you.”
“Valedictorian of my senior class,” she admitted.
“Smart enough to say yes?” He opened the box, revealing a one-of-a-kind Nikki McKinney creation, a gold band with platinum inlaid wings and a diamond set in a swirl of sapphires.
“Too smart to say no,” she said softly, taking the ring out of the box and slipping it on her finger.
“I don’t think we should wait, no long engagement or anything like that. I think we should just get married.”
She glanced back up from the ring, a small smile on her face. “Sounds like you got that part right.”
“Yeah.” He figured he did, and he kissed her again.
She pressed herself against him, getting even closer, her mouth so hot and sweet on his, and he could instantly see where this was all going to go, with her legs straddling him, and him being so much in love with her.
“I’m glad we’re not going to be on YouTube,” he said after a while.
“Yeah, me, too.” She kissed him again, with his ring on her finger, and it was all so perfect, cold snowflakes coming down, hot steam going up, and Esme the Wonderful on top.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Pseudonym for Glenna McReynolds.
Tara Janzen is the author of the award-winning CRAZY and LOOSE series of romantic suspense novels about Steele Street, a team of Special Ops forces. Her books have appeared on the New York Times and the USA Today bestseller lists.
Tara lives in Colorado with her family.
