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Carson doesn’t play with me; he’s never been anything other than unfailingly honest and forthright. He lays out what he thinks and feels for me, he’s my strength, my backbone, my everything. I have never felt stronger than when he’s next to me.
Yesterday when he first confronted my parents and called them out on being awful human beings, I’d hidden. But knowing he was there for me, with me, I found the fortitude to stand tall knowing that without a doubt he’d never let me fall. He’d never let me buckle or cower.
Glancing over at him, a wave of heat washes over me, but it’s not the lust I usually feel when I’m around him, it’s something more. His soft, warm eyes turn to me as he reaches over and places his hand on my thigh, squeezing gently.
“You okay?” he asks.
I nod, using my thumb to twist the huge diamond ring weighing heavily on my finger from side to side.
“I’m not going to take it back; I don’t regret it,” he tells me boldly.
“What?” I ask.
“Asking you to marry me. I know I sprung it on you, but I love you, Priss, and I couldn’t wait another minute, I can’t wait baby.”
“No, no,” I rush to say. “I don’t regret it either. I love you, Carson, you make me better, you make me worthy of your love. I don’t regret a single thing about us,” I blurt.
“You’ve always been worthy, you just didn’t know it,” he says, his earnest eyes daring me to believe him. “In a few weeks’ time we’ll either have destroyed your parents, or forgotten them, either way we’ll still be us, we’ll still be in love, we’ll still have the brightest future ahead of us. No matter what happens, we’ve still won.”
“What did I do to deserve you?” I ask, suddenly really needing to know if it was luck, or fate, or just incredibly good timing that brought this man into my life when I needed him so incredibly badly.
“You asked,” he laughs. “You barged into my room uninvited, and you asked.”
“That simple?”
“That simple.”
* * *
“Forty percent,” Olly shouts, his hand held triumphantly above his head as he strolls across the cafeteria toward our table. “Forty percent. The only hold outs are Ligada.”
“That’s Rupert’s company.”
Olly nods, “Fucking Overston is refusing to even discuss selling, we can’t even get a chance to put an offer to him and he holds the final nine percent. It’s not the end of the world if we don’t get them, we’re still the biggest majority shareholders except for whoever inherits your great-grandfather’s estate.”
“Should we meet with him and try to sway him in person?” I ask.
“That’d mean revealing that it’s us that wants to buy the shares,” Arlo says, his voice low and thoughtful.
“We could be blatant and just lay it out for him,” I shrug.
“It could work, but considering he offered you and Tally a threesome at the party, it stands a chance I might beat the shit out of him before he could agree to sell if he’s a douche again,” Arlo growls, as Carson nods in violent agreement.
“I’ll go meet with him,” Wats says, leaning back in his seat and lifting his bottle of water to his lips as he shrugs nonchalantly.
“Why?” Tally asks the question that was already on my lips.
“I’ll flirt a bit, see if I can convince him to sell.”
“Flirt?” I squeak.
“I’m an equal opportunity kind of guy, Crueligan,” he says with an exaggerated wink.
“Wait, you swing both ways?” Tally asks, her eyes wide with shock while the guys snicker.
Wats shrugs. “I enjoy girls and guys, like I said, I’m equal opportunity.”
“The guy’s a pig,” I shriek. “You can’t have sex with him.”
