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She licked her lips. “I think I’d really like that.”
“What about making this official?” I asked.
“As in marriage official?” she asked, eyes as wide as saucers now.
My lips twitched. “Everyone already thinks we’re married, baby. What’s a little engagement?”
She blinked. “Engagements usually come with rings.”
I twisted, taking her with me, then leaned out of the bed to reach for my pants on the floor. I came back up with the ring box out of my pocket to her laughing and wheezing.
“You’re really heavy, Slone,” she teased.
I let her have a bit more of my weight before I lifted up off of her and went up onto my knees in the bed.
She looked at me with wide eyes as she stared at the velvet box.
I flipped it open, and she gasped. “Yes.”
“I didn’t ask you anything yet.”
“Yes,” she repeated.
Grinning wickedly, I slid the ring onto her finger.
And then took a tackle from the smallest woman on earth, who promptly fell asleep in my arms.
Sadly, she didn’t wake up until well past nine the next morning.
She had an apologetic look on her face when I blinked my own eyes open.
“I love the ring,” she whispered, then kissed my nose.
I pulled her into my arms and said, “Good. It’s the only one Briley and I could settle on. If you’d disliked it, we would’ve had to go with her first choice. And it looked like a ring from a dollar ring machine.”
She snickered. “It probably wasn’t that bad.”
No, it was worse.
EPILOGUE
Watch what you put into your bodies, ladies. Your food and your men. Quality only.
-Ari to her sisters
ARI
Six Months Later
“You ready to go?” I asked Briley.
Briley and I were on our way to my show, and we’d just finished up her schoolwork for the week.
Briley was so smart that sometimes it was downright scary.
It wouldn’t be long, and we’d have to find her a teacher that could actually keep up with her.
“I’m here, I’m here!”
