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“Then I guess it’s a good thing I got to keep it. I’ll even let you take it off me later.” Panther winked, and shit, there went my dick again.
Over his shoulder, I could still see the guys in our bedroom, so I moved us out of the doorway and over to the edge of the terrace. This side had the best view, because not only could you see Huntington Beach directly below, but also the Black Rock Cliffs that would always, in my mind, be synonymous with Panther and the two of us together. It was one of the main reasons we’d been drawn to this house, but there was still one more thing Panther hadn’t yet seen.
“Look up,” I said, pointing at a spot off in the distance. “I want you to see something.”
Panther squinted up at the sky. “What am I looking for?”
“Just wait for it. You’ll know.”
As we stood there in silence, my chin resting on his shoulder, I thought back to how far we’d come to get to this moment. From getting shot down by Panther at that sketchy bar to being rivals at the Elite, to friends and lovers, and now, each other’s forever. Never once had I questioned that someday we’d end up here, in a home we owned together, watching sunsets and planning the rest of our lives together.
“There it goes.” Far enough away that we couldn’t hear the takeoff, but close enough we could see it from where we stood, a 737 ascended over the ocean at an angle. It left from the same airport by the abandoned park, where we’d watched takeoffs and landings from the rusted merry-go-round.
“Now we can watch from our place anytime we want. No tetanus shot required.”
Panther smiled, his gaze trained on the plane disappearing into the clouds. “I love you, you know that? I can’t believe you did all this.”
“Well, I didn’t arrange the plane—”
“You think that makes the rest of this any less impressive?” Panther shook his head and then met my eyes over his shoulder. “You thought of everything. Thank you.”
I kissed the tip of his nose. “I love you. I’d do anything for you. You know that.”
“I do.”
My heart skipped at those two simple words. Would I hear them again tonight, when I asked him the most important question of our lives? The one I’d been planning on asking for months now and had just been waiting for this day to finally arrive?
Fuck yes, I would hear those words from him. I never did anything halfway, never asked a question I didn’t already know the answer to. Panther was mine, and he had been from the first moment I saw him, even if at first he’d tried his best to deny it. He wouldn’t be denying me tonight, and goddamn I was ready.
As another jet took off in the distance, capturing Panther’s attention, I could practically feel the heat and weight of the ring where it rested in my jeans pocket. I ran through the timing of my plan in my head, making sure that even with the moving happening downstairs that everything was still on track. Then I grinned against the sun-warmed skin of Panther’s neck, loving that I had one last secret before he knew everything.
And just how was I planning to propose to the love of my life?
It was classified.
