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I nodded. “If we wait, I’m going to get scared and chicken out.”
“Odette!”
“Are you saying no?”
His mouth dropped open. He ran his hand through his hair, once, then twice, and just sighed. “You are going to drive me crazy, do you know that?”
“At least you know that now!”
He held my face before pulling me close and kissing me hard. Because of the rain, the clothes between our bodies felt thinner. I could feel him, all of him, holding on to me.
When he broke away, he rested his forehead on mine.
“We’re going to have to stop at home to get the ring,” he said.
He kissed me one more time and ran back to the sail. I just stood there, shaking. This was crazy. I was marrying him so I could keep dating him.
I was marrying him because everything felt good.
I was marrying him because I liked him...a lot.
Chapter 24
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For a royal to get married in Ersovia, you needed the blessing of the sovereign. Once given, the press would be told a month after the proposal, and the wedding would then take place seven months after that. The sons of the reigning monarch needed to be married in Brauenburg Abbey by the Archbishop, and the day would be a public holiday so everyone could watch the bride come down the abbey road in a red and gold carriage, surrounded by six royal guards on horseback. The bride of the Adelaar had a train fifteen feet long, and she wore a golden crown. The wife of every other prince could have a train of no more than eight feet, and her crown would be made of white and silver diamonds. There were no surprises. There were no spur-of-the-moment decisions. Everything about that day would be planned to the last detail.
It would be the exact opposite of today.
Sitting at a round table in an empty courthouse because we were late, there was a licensed notary still there who offered to help us. All we needed was the sixty-seven-dollar fee for the actual marriage license that went to the county auditor and to fill out the marriage license application.
“Sir.” Iskandar’s grip on my shoulder was like iron. “Please wait until we hear from your brother.”
“Isn’t this the news he’s been waiting for anyway.”
“Yes, however—”
