“Yeah.”
“Who’d you tell that to?”
“My hairstylist. When I was wondering why you hadn’t tried to get me into bed at that last party you came to at my house.”
“You weren’t ready for me then.”
She smiled and shook her head. “No, I wasn’t. Not for all this. I was still living under the oppressive weight of my parents’ expectations of perfection and occasionally wishing I could run away to Timbuktu and leave it all behind.”
“How about New Zealand?”
“New Zealand?”
“For our honeymoon.”
“What?”
“I know a really nice Russian billionaire’s estate where we can stay. I’d love to show it to you.”
She swallowed, stunned once more. “You haven’t even proposed yet.”
He pulled something out of his pocket. A stone flashed in the noonday sun pouring through the giant windows.
“That’s not our prop ring.”
“I was planning on waiting until later today. Taking you out for a sunset ride. But I figure, might as well keep it real.” He pushed back from the kitchen island and dropped to one knee on the wood floor in front of her.
Windsor’s heart pounded as her chest rose and fell with massive breaths. She’d just told her family’s deepest, most scandalous secret, and now he was proposing.
“Windsor Reed—the kindest, sweetest, funniest, sexiest, and most amazing woman on God’s green earth—will you marry me and make me the happiest man in the universe?”
She sucked in a breath as her fork fell from her fingertips. “Here, now?”
He nodded with a smile that shone through his beautiful eyes.
“What do you say? Spend forever with me?”
She nodded uncontrollably as she fell to her knees in front of him and threw her arms around him.
“Yes. I say yes.”
CHAPTER 28
They wrapped filming two weeks before Sylvia gave birth. Thankfully, it had worked perfectly with the script, and she had been hale and hearty through the whole process.
Bo smiled as Windsor held the tiny baby girl in her arms. She looked good with a baby. He was going to have to ask her if she wanted one or two of her own. No matter what she decided, he was here for it.
They were back in LA to pack up the things she needed and had decided to keep her house as a place to crash whenever they were in town.
Lyric was joining Windsor in moving permanently to Montana. She wanted a little garden, and Eph wanted to give her a baby of their own. Their wedding was planned for later this year, and Bo already knew he was paying off Eph’s house as their wedding present.
“You ever heard of Clark Fork? Near the Idaho border?” Butch asked him.
“Yeah, it’s not far from the ranch. You’re really thinking of getting out of the city and moving to BFE like me?”
“Do you see that baby girl right there?” his friend asked rhetorically. “Because she deserves better than to grow up in smog and crime. Which is why we closed three days ago on our own little cabin on fifty acres with a view of the river.”
“And you didn’t tell me? We’ll practically be neighbors.” Bo held out his hand to shake Butch’s. “Congrats, man. That’s amazing. I think you guys will love it.”