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I move back and search his eyes. “What is it?”
“I have to get married in a few weeks.”
I suck in a breath and my heart stills in my chest. “Married. You’re getting married? I didn’t know you were with someone. I thought…”
“I’m with you.”
Confusion sets in and I try to blink past it. “But you can’t be with me if you’re getting married.”
“There’s some legal stuff surrounding my legacy and I need to get married for at least six months to fulfill it or I lose everything. My uncle is arranging my marriage as we speak.”
“Don’t you have a choice?”
“I choose you. Be my wife for six months.”
“Me?” I stand, but my legs feel shaky. “You’re asking me?”
He stands, too. “Yeah. You. Please don’t feel obligated to me because I paid for your mother’s care. That was a gift to you. But if you say yes to me, I’ll sweeten the deal and pay all the restaurant debts.”
“That would be way too much again,” I pant.
“But I’d do it if you agreed. I calculated a prediction and you should be able to clear the debts within eight months to a year without me, so you can say no. But I want you to say yes.”
Say no, and I lose him to someone else. I don’t think so. “Yes. Yes, I will.”
“You’ll do it?”
I smile and it feels so freeing. “Yes.”
“You’re sure?”
“I’m a hundred percent sure.”
He picks me up and spins me around, then we kiss and it feels different again. More passionate, more real, more true.
Cillian brushes his nose over mine. “You’ll be my wife.”
Those words seal on my heart. “And you’ll be my husband.”
I didn’t know it was possible to fall so crazy in love with one guy after such a short time. But it is, and I just agreed to marry him.
I’ll take whatever I can get with this guy.
Cillian O’Ridian must be the dark angel the universe sent to make up for all my years of pain.
Roxanne stares back at me with a mixture of shock and disbelief contorting her face.
We’re in the kitchen at my mother’s home. I just broke the news to her. The news of my engagement.
Mom has surgery in an hour’s time. I wanted to wait until she was being prepped for surgery before I told Roxanne. The surgery should last for about twelve hours, but we both want to be there.
I wanted her to know about Cillian before we left.
“I feel like I need to ask you to repeat yourself, but I know what I heard.” She blinks several times, then touches her cheeks.
“I know, it’s shocking.”
“Shocking? You only met Cillian about a week ago.”
