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“Love is an obsession, and you’re mine.” His gaze focused on the engagement ring. “I didn’t trick you into accepting my marriage proposal.”
“I don’t remember it. A girl likes to remember being proposed to.”
He tucked her against him. “Should I tell you about it?”
“It would be nice.”
“I came out of the house that day with you, unconscious in my arms, and your dad and my mum on my heels. We hailed a taxi to take us to the hospital. Of course, the paparazzi followed as quickly as they could and set up outside the emergency room doors.”
“Mum got us checked in, and they led us back to a private room. I told them we were engaged. It was the only way they’d let me stay with you. You woke up enough to tell them how much pain you were in. They gave you medicines to help with that. I knew the moment they took effect because your head turned and with a big goofy grin on your face, you asked me to marry you.”
She lifted her head. “I asked you?”
He nodded. “You said you didn’t want to be without me anymore, and we should get married. I said yes. Then you passed out.”
“And I forgot about it?”
He chuckled. “Obviously. The doctors gave you what they like to call truth serum. I can’t remember the clinical name of it, but when someone is under its influence, the truth has a way of coming out. The hospital staff take immense pleasure in listening to what people have to say. They told me one woman told her husband she didn’t like him very much. She thought he was an arsehole. The nurses laughed about it.”
“I’m glad my feelings were a tad more flattering.”
“I’ll say.” He kissed her forehead. “While you were unconscious, I made a call to a jeweler. He brought me a few samples to consider. I’m sorry you didn’t like my choice. Lindsey said you would have preferred a sapphire.”
She grimaced. “Lindsey shouldn’t have opened her big mouth.”
“We can get you a different one.”
“I don’t want a different one.”
His gaze was rueful. “You h
ate this ring, Nicole.”
She shook her head. “I don’t hate it. I just don’t love it, but it’s growing on me. I was devastated when I couldn’t find it. I swore I wouldn’t take it off again, and I haven’t.”
“Because you love me so much?”
“No, because my damn finger is swollen. When you broke our engagement, I wanted to hurl it across the room, but it’s stuck on my finger.” She reached down and pulled. The ring came off in her hand. “That figures.”
“It’s because you’re dehydrated.”
Her eyes lifted to his. “It’s an omen, Colin. We’ve had so many stops and starts, I think the universe is trying to tell us something.”
“Yes, it’s telling us to get on with it.” He sat up, taking her with him until they were both sitting on the edge of the bed. He took the ring from her palm, sliding to one knee before her. He took a deep breath, gazing deeply into her eyes. “Nicole Elizabeth DeLancey, you are my heart, my soul, and my best friend. I don’t function right without you. Please put me out of my misery. Marry me.”
Nicole’s eyes filled with tears. “You’re not going to change your mind again, are you? You can only patch a broken heart so many times."
He bowed his head. “I will try to never break your heart again.”
“Famous last words,” she mumbled, laying her forehead against his. “I’ll marry you on one condition.”
He rubbed his head back and forth against hers. “What’s the condition?”
“You never do a film with Melanie Daniels again.”
He laughed. “I wish.” He cupped her cheek. “You know I can’t promise that.”
She sighed. “I know, but it was worth a shot.”
