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My relieved, pliable body froze solid in his embrace. My lungs burned, deciding that I needed to hear whatever was about to come out of Ken’s mouth more than I needed oxygen.
“Uh-huh,” I exhaled.
“You said she…wanted to get married.” Ken pressed his forehead against mine and closed his eyes, probably to avoid having to make eye contact. “Do you want to get married?”
Thump, thump, thump, my heart pounded in my ears.
“Ken…”
Thump, thump, thump, my pulse throbbed in my throat.
“Are you…proposing?”
“No,” he replied immediately.
The letdown almost caused my knees to buckle.
“But I will.” Ken’s voice was solid and resolute. He wasn’t asking; he was telling.
“You will?” The pitch of my voice shot up at the end of that question almost as high as my rebounding spirits.
Ken nodded, his forehead pushing mine up and down along with it.
My chin quivered as I nodded along with him. It was everything I’d ever hoped for, but there was a nagging voice in the back of my skull telling me that Ken was offering more than he was capable of giving. I didn’t want to live in a fantasy world anymore.
So, with a deep breath, I laid my hopes and dreams at his feet and asked him for the truth instead. “Ken, do you want to get married?”
He nodded again without hesitation. “If that will make you stay.”
I smiled.
“If that will make you stay.”
It wasn’t romantic. It wasn’t hearts and rainbows and fireworks. It was the simple, honest truth, and it was everything I’d been longing to hear. Well, almost…
“What about kids?”
“One kid.”
An unexpected laugh burst out of me. Leaning away from Ken, I looked at him with one eye as I giggled and wiped a tear away from the other. “You’re gonna give me a kid?”
“Just one, so you’d better make it a good one.” With his hands on my waist, Ken walked me backward until the edge of the kitchen table hit the backs of my thighs.
“What if it’s twins?” I laughed, clutching his shoulders for support. “They run in my family, you know.”
Ken smirked, his hands moving from my waist to the button of my jeans. “Then, you’re just gonna have to pick your favorite.”
Zip.
I gasped as Ken’s fingertips teased me over my panties, and his mouth found a tender spot just below my ear.
“Ken?” I breathed.
“Mmhmm…” he hummed against my neck.
“I love you.”
Sliding his free hand up the back of my neck and into my shaved hair, Ken held my head as he placed a tender kiss on my parted mouth. “I love you, too.”
