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Tears sprung to her eyes, warmth radiated through her chest. She turned around and looked right up at Derek’s face, his eyes warm and tender, gazing down on her with so much love.
“You’re crazy,” Sophie choked out. “What if I didn’t check the chamber and blasted it.”
Derek chuckled, his fingers grasped her chin and tilted her face up. He leaned in closer. “I don’t give a damn. I’ll get you another one. Well?”
“Oh god, Derek, yes,” Sophie cried happily. “Of course, yes!”
He flashed her a brilliant smile and slipped the ring on her finger. He crushed her in his arms while his mouth took her lips in a scorching kiss. Clapping and sighs were heard around them.
Sophie managed to free her lips and said seriously, “Derek, we need to talk.”
“Don’t I know it,” Derek muttered back, a bit impatiently and proceeded to remove her lab coat, flinging it on an empty chair.
“Wait, I just got here,” Sophie squeaked as he took her hand and basically dragged her toward the exit.
He paused and said, “Angel, we just got engaged. Everything else can fucking wait.”
She had no arguments for that.
* * *
“It’s beautiful out here,”Sophie breathed as she got off Derek’s Harley. It was the end of October and the leaves were in full autumn splendor. The lake before them was languid and added to the peace that she was finally feeling in her heart. “Did you rent it?” She nodded to the lake house that was fronting the water.
“It’s mine. Bought it a couple of years ago and fixed it up. Haven’t been down here in the past year, too much crazy stuff going on,” Derek said.
“Sophie—”
“Derek—”
They spoke at the same time. Derek gave her the go ahead to talk, albeit slightly irritated.
“To say that I was shocked by your proposal was an understatement,” Sophie said. “I would have been happy just the way we were.”
“Well, I wasn’t,” Derek cut in. “No. Let me finish, baby, before you piss me off.”
“Hey—”
“Sophie.” Derek looked determined, so she let him have his say. “I’ve been waiting for you to come around. I’ve been patient. You think you’re the one being patient with me because of some misguided notion that I needed to adjust to a life of monogamy. But ever since that time I made love to you in the shower, I knew. I was in love with you. You are it for me, Sophie. There’s never going to be anyone else. All this time, I was just waiting for you.”
“I told you I was in love with you,” Sophie reminded him. “In a most public manner, if you recall.”
“Enough to spend the rest of your life with me?” Derek asked roughly.
Sophie thought for a moment. “You know, yes. I think I could tolerate a lifetime of your caveman behavior.”
Suddenly her feet were off the ground as Derek yanked her to him and lifted her so their gazes were level. “You’re a sassy little thing. Whoever would have thought that the geek in a lab coat could turn out to be such a temptress.”
“Well, you’re the corruptor of innocents,” Sophie replied saucily. “My friends think you’ve turned me into a nympho. Imagine that.”
Derek gave a hoot of laughter. “What made them think that?”
“We didn’t have sex for two days after the first time we had that amazing shower sex,” Sophie said. “So I asked my friends if maybe you’d gotten tired of me.”
“You told me you wanted to take it slow.”
“Yes, but I was hoping you wouldn’t take me seriously. After all, you bulldoze me in every other aspect of my life.”
Derek scowled at her. “Wait, was that the day at the cafe—”
