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“The incubi don’t know what they missed out on,” he says. “But their loss is my gain because I can’t imagine anybody more perfect for me than you.”
My heart swells.
The waitress was right. Damekdoeslove me. I can see it in his eyes. The way he looks at me is the way supernaturals look at their soulmates. I’ve always been envious of that love, but I’m not anymore. Because I have Damek, who is way better than a soulmate. He’s better because he chose me and I chose him. What is more special than that?
“Damek…” my voice trails off as I try to get the words out.
Just say it.
Say ‘I love you.’
But it’s harder than I thought it would be.
Damek continues speaking, “I would have married you after our first date. I knew I was attracted to you that first night, but I didn’t realize at the time just how special you would become to me. I never imagined that it was possible to feel like this.”
Tears press against my eyes at his confession.
He reaches into his pocket. “I didn’t want to go too fast. I know that succubi have different dating traditions than vampires. And I don’t want to pressure you. But I can’t wait to tell you this.” He pauses, his eyes scanning my face. “Maddie, I love you.”
My heart thumps even faster. So fast that I can hear my blood rushing through my ears.
“And I am willing to wait for you to fall in love with me,” he says. “But I realized after our conversation about you not feeling chosen, I’ve never told you how I really feel.” He pulls something from his pocket, but I am looking into his eyes so I don’t see what. “I will choose you every day for the rest of my life.” He slowly lowers himself onto one knee. “You deserve the world, and I will do everything in my power to give it to you. Will you marry me?”
That is when I see that he’s holding a box in his hand.
I stare at him, completely stunned silent.
I never expectthis,not in a million years. We’re technically already engaged. But I didn’t get the big proposal, which is customary for succubi. And Damek is making up for that now.
My heart feels so full that it could burst.
But as I look at Damek and he looks at me, I realize I haven’t said anything.
“I love you too,” I tell him.
“You do?” he asks.
The genuine surprise on his face makes me giggle. It’s like I’m a teenager again, having a crush on the popular boy at school.
But this is so much better because Damek loves me too. And he’s asking me to marry him.
“Yes, I love you. And yes, I will marry you,” I say boldly, hoping to show Damek just how confident I am in him. In us.
Damek stands from his kneeling position and he pulls me into his arms. He squeezes me tightly against his chest lifts me from the ground and spins me in a circle. After he sits me back on the ground, he gently cups my face.
“Did you seriously just say yes?” he asks, his jaw slightly agape.
I nod. “Absolutely yes. Because it isn’t just you choosing me. I choose you too.”
He kisses me hard and fast and then pulls back to look at me again. “I honestly expected you to tell me it was too soon.”
“We were already engaged,” I remind him.
“I know. But I didn’t think you loved me,” he admits. Then he holds up the box in his hand. “I picked this out the day after our first date. You weren’t mine then, but I so badly wanted you to be.”
The ring is beautiful, but what’s important to me is what the ring represents.
Damek didn’t have to do this. I would’ve married him and been happy with him. But this proves just how happy our lifewillbe.
