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“Hell, no.” He shakes his head. “I love Blair Madison Monroe way too much. Don’t you dare change your name or the other naughty ones I call you.”
I search his eyes, remembering the morning after Valentine’s when I made Beau leave. When I wanted him to have his dream. Even if it wasn’t me.
But now, I am.
He dreams of our love.
I nuzzle his nose. “Okay, I’ll be your wife, your better half, and ball-and-chain. I’ll be the mother of your children, too. I’ll spend all your money on books and?—”
“Uh, you make money, too.”
“Yeah, but it’s more fun spending yours.”
I feel his smile as he kisses my neck. “This is the prenup from hell.”
“Beau.” I lift his gaze to mine. “I’ll be your wife forever under two conditions.”
He cocks a grin. “What’s the game plan?”
“Ask me next time in a way that melts my panties and makes me snot cry.”
“Done.” He kisses me. “What else?”
“Marry Colt, not me.”
I watch it light up his blue eyes. I watch the dream dance across his gorgeous gaze.
“Right?” I ask. “It feels right, you marrying Colt, doesn’t it?”
His brows bend. “But I want to marry you, too.”
“But you can’t. Not legally. So marry your high school sweetheart. The one you’ve loved for so long. Do that, and you can have the wife of your dreams, too. I don’t need for it to be legal, for it to be real.” I touch his chest. His heart is pounding. “But think about it. You and Colt need it. You deserve it. You don’t need to hide. You deserve to celebrate your husband, your love, and for the whole world to see it.”
“Blair.” His hand glides through my hair, tugging my lips to his. “Baby, I love you even more for saying that. You know I love Colt. I’ve always wanted to marry him, but I want to be your husband, too. I wanted you for so long. I need you to be my wife.”
“I am.” I chew my lip, fighting the sweet tears, but fuck it. Today is the time to let them flow.
“Beau, from the moment you showed up at my door, saving my friend with her passed out in your arms. Or the time you knocked on my door with a busted lip, missing your friend and needing me too. Or the morning I made you leave me alone in a hotel room, so you could have your dream. It’s like you said; there’s always been an us. We’ve always been together. I’ve always loved you, and good fucking luck making me stop.”
He kisses me so deeply a tiny sob catches in my throat. I can feel it in how he clutches me so tight. He’s in the moments with me, too.
Like that’s where our love resides, not in rings, paper, or names.
“But there’s this girl from college,” he murmurs over my lips. “For my birthday, she made a paper rose for me from the pages of a Harry Potter book and left it on my pillow without a note. But I know it was her. I still have the rose, and she still has my heart. How do I show her I’ll be devoted to her forever?”
My fucking happy tears won’t stop, so I kiss his lips. I won’t ever stop kissing Beau’s lips. “I’m sure you’ll come up with a game plan.”
CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
There’s this guy from high school I fell in love with. There’s this girl from college who saved me.
BEAU
Everyone knows the feeling of people watching you. Most of the time, it’s no big deal. It’s a fleeting moment.
But today, millions are watching us make history.
It would almost be surreal, like I’m living in a dream, but I’ve been getting the shit sacked out of me during the first half.
