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My palm finds his cheek and even though I can’t believe what he’s telling me, I want more.
I’ve always been greedy about anything that involves Daniel.
“Tell me we’re together. Tell me I’m yours as much as you’re mine.”
“Fuck right we’re together. And I don’t only belong to you, but you’re too deep into my soul, I’d have to die to remove you. And that’s just tragic, so you can’t leave me.”
A lone tear slides down my cheek. “I won’t. I can’t.”
He brushes his lips against mine. “Remember when you asked me where my home is?”
“You said it was nowhere.”
“I lied.” He taps my chest. “My home is wherever you are. You’re my home, Nicole.”
“Oh, Daniel. My heart can’t take this.”
“Stay with me. I haven’t gotten to the most important part.”
My chest squeezes. “And what is that?”
“Remember what you asked me back when we were children?”
“What?”
“You proposed to me.”
My cheeks turn hot. “I was…a kid.”
“It still counts and it’s my turn to propose.” He struggles to his feet, then awkwardly gets on his knee. “You’re the only woman I can imagine spending the rest of my life with. The woman I want to wake up next to every single day. You don’t only make me a better man, but you also give me the urge to be more for you. Nicole Stephanie Adler, will you marry me?”
I choke on my tears. Not just because his proposal feels surreal, but also because he actually knows my middle name.
He knows a lot about me that I thought he didn’t.
I take his arm, trying to pull him to his feet, but he refuses to. “You’ll rip out your stitches.”
“You better say yes then.”
I smile through the tears and open my mouth, but he cuts me off.
“Before you shoot me down, I want to tell you that my dick is now monogamous for you and refuses to be functional for anyone but you, so if you say no, he’ll have to kill himself.”
“How is that possible?”
“No clue, but he’ll find a way. He’s resourceful that way.”
“There’s no need.” I palm his cheek as I drop to my knees in front of him. “The answer is yes.”
“Yes, as in you’ll marry me, or yes to watching my dick come up with a way to go down in history as the first junior to kill himself?”
My laugh is loud and carefree. “I’m marrying you, Daniel. Like I dreamt twenty-one years ago. I loved you then, I’m in love with you now.”
“I loved you then, too.” He grabs me by the nape, pulling me close to him. “I’m mad about you now, Peaches.”
“Why do you call me that when you don’t eat the fruit?”
“You still love it, and I’m low-key glad the thing, as dangerous as it is, brought us close together.”
