Page 44 of A Christmas Negotiation

“On top of marriage?”

“Yes. Let’s keep the kittens. And Cat. Let’s not give them up for adoption.”

Isabel could hardly believe the words that had just come from Jeremy’s mouth, which was saying a lot given that he’d just proposed. “But you don’t really like cats.”

“Like a lot of things, you managed to show me what I was missing out on.”

“It’ll be a ton of work. Four cats running around here.”

Jeremy shrugged and pulled her closer. “So? I have spent years walking around this big house, hardly using it or enjoying it for that matter. And then I met you and the whole place sprang back to life. I don’t want to hold back on that. So we have four cats and a baby. Bring it on.”

Isabel smiled harder than she’d ever smiled, even more than she had while watching her brother say “I do” mere hours ago. “Oh, you know what I just realized? If I change my name to Isabel Blackwell-Sharp after we get married, you can still keep the firm’s name as Sharp and Sharp.”

“First off, I’m not doing the same thing to you that my dad did to me. We will change the firm’s name to whatever you want it to be. To whatever you want your last name to be.”

She then realized what a pushover she was being. “You’ve got me into way too much of a charitable mood, Sharp. I should be negotiating with you, not offering concessions from the word go.”

“I don’t want to talk work, Isabel.” He threaded his fingers through her hair, then rubbed his thumb along her lower lip. “I don’t want to talk about who we know or what we do.”

Isabel smiled at the echo of the magical night they’d met, when she’d dared to take a chance on Jeremy. How lucky was she that he ended up being the one? “Yeah? Then what do you want to talk about?”

“How do you feel about good views? Because there’s a spectacular one in our bedroom.”