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In the end, I’d decided to keep the shop, and all my big ambitions for it, but I thought I’d be able to do all of that and still have a full personal life too. I knew a baby would be a drastic change in my world, and I was prepared for that. Or as prepared as I could be, I hoped. Luckily, when the baby was older, I’d be able to hire a good nanny to take care of him when I decided to go back to work.
I had promoted Hailey to manager and hired some extra help for the shop, other than just Damon. I’d need that help at least until the baby was older, and I could go back to work full time. I hoped to be able to do that part all on my own, using the profits from the sale of my little house and the extra contracts I was still going to go after to provide for my business. But I was done being stupid about using Dominic’s money. It was his baby too.
I wasn’t so stubborn as to ignore the fact that I was about to be married to—if everything went as planned—an extremely successful lawyer and businessman. One who wanted to share with me the responsibility for a life together. I could handle the shop on my own, but I’d have been foolish not to let my true mate provide our family a home.
As for Dominic’s worries about his status as an alpha causing me to constantly go in heat, I had talked to the doctor, and he’d assured me that with the right meds my cycle could be controlled. We might have to abstain while we found the right combination, but that was a matter of willpower, and we’d both need to practice some. I knew we loved each other enough to make it work.
When I knocked on the door, Ashworth came to open it, and I got some serious déjà vu as he looked down at me with that imperial disdain that he had so perfected. When he saw what I held in my hand, he couldn’t quite hide his smile, though I think he tried to.
“He’s in the bedroom, sir,” he told me. “Why don’t you just go in and surprise him?”
I grinned and went across the suite to the door. I knocked softly before opening it and hearing him call out for me to come in. I opened the door wide and went in, ignoring his gasp and going right up to him as he sat on a chair near the window.
“Jax?” he managed to say before I held out the huge bouquet of peonies and roses I had in my hand for him. Red and pink ones, of course. He blinked a few times and took them like he wasn’t quite sure what they were, or what he was supposed to do with them. Then I reached in my pocket, brought out the ring I’d bought him and sank to one knee.
His eyes widened in disbelief as I said, “Dominic Bousset, I love you very much, and I can’t imagine my life without you. Will you do me the honor of marrying me?”
At least that was what I’d intended to say. I got as far as the part about loving him, and he lunged for me and pulled me onto his lap. I managed not to drop the ring as he mauled me for the next few minutes kissing my face all over and devouring my mouth, but it was a close thing. What was left of his dinner fell on the floor and flower petals were scattered everywhere and things were a mess.
Yet it was all absolutely perfect at the same time.
The End
