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“It’s very excusable after how I reacted.”
I sighed and propped myself up on my elbows. “I want to get up. I’m feeling better and I want to get out of here.” I sat up in the bed and swung my legs over the edge.
“Wait. I’m not finished.”
“What?”
“I’m not finished. I have more to say.”
“Okay.”
He reached into his pant’s pocket and pulled out a tiny black box then knelt down on one knee in front of me.
“Asher, what are you doing?”
“I’m asking you to marry me. I love you. I know this isn’t the most romantic place to ask you to marry me, but I don’t want one more second to pass by before I know the answer. Melody Grace Stevens, will you be my wife?”
He opened the small box and inside was the most beautiful ring I’d ever seen. A rather sizable diamond surrounded by a frame of smaller diamonds set in a gold band.
“My God, Asher, where did you get the money for that?”
“Don’t worry about the details, Mel, just answer the question.”
I looked up into his soft, green eyes and nodded. “Yes. Yes, I’ll marry you.”
“Really?”
“Yes, really. I’ve always loved you, Asher.”
“You have?”
“Yes, my whole life, and I would love to be your wife.”
I threw my arms around him, and he stood, pulling us both up to a standing position before crushing his mouth to mine. The kiss started heavy, then went tender as he placed his palm over my stomach again. He eased back so that his face was an inch from mine. “I love this,” he said, smiling. “I’d planned to tell you that I loved you the night we found out about the baby. I had every intention of asking you to marry me that night—with or without a ring—but I held off. I didn’t want you to think I was asking because of the baby, though, because I think it’s nothing short of a miracle, and I’m so fucking stoked that you’re going to have my child, Mel. I just want you to know that I’m not asking you to marry me because of it. You have to believe that. I loved you way before that.”
“Me, too. I love you, too.”
