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“I want to say I’ve done better. This kid knows exactly where my bladder is and wants to pop a squat on it nonstop.”
He laughed at her. “One of those things I can’t help you with.”
“I know,” she said, shifting in her chair and standing up. “But you asked.”
“I did. Just tell me where they are, and I’ll grab them.”
“No. I need to get up and move, you know that. Otherwise, my ankles swell too.”
“You look beautiful to me,” he said.
“Isn’t that so sweet,” Grant said from the hallway.
He turned to see the brothers standing there. He’d passed them on his way to Chloe’s office and said he was going to see her. He knew they’d come down, being the nosy men they were.
No one had been putting pressure on them about getting married. He was surprised, to be honest, but brushed it off.
“It is nice,” Garrett said. “I used to rub Carolyn’s feet every night toward the end.”
“As you should have,” Chloe said. “She carried twins. Twice. No way. One is bad enough.”
“Since you are both here,” Royce said to Grant and Garrett, “I thought it’d be the perfect time to bring up a new proposition.”
“Oh,” Grant said. “Did you and your father find another property?”
“Nothing like that,” he said. “This is a proposition for Chloe. I thought you might enjoy hearing it. She’s good at coming up with them, but this time I think I need to be the one to come up with this one.”
He turned to Chloe and saw her face turn red. “Royce.”
He laughed. “Hey. It had to start somewhere, right?”
“What are we missing?” Garrett asked.
“Nothing,” Chloe said. “Royce likes to come up with rules. Or change them.”
“Me?” Royce said, putting his hand to his chest. “No. That is you. I have to change them true, but you’ve got plenty of your own. And you’re stalling.”
He moved closer to where she was standing when the brothers walked in. She hadn’t moved to get the blueprints.
He got down on one knee. “Oh my God,” she said.
“It had to be here,” he said. “You know it as well as I do. It’s where we first met years ago.”
“It took you two long enough,” Garrett said.
“Hush,” Grant said. “Let him get the ring on her finger.”
He wasn’t paying attention to the Fierces just now. Just the woman he loved. “It did take us a long time, but it was meant to be. Will you be my wife? You’re already living with me. You’re carrying my baby. I know we took things out of order and all.”
She grinned at him. “You started so good and then ended that way. But it’s fine. I’m good with the way we did things. Yes, I’ll be your wife. Just another story to tell our daughter.”
He slid the ring on her finger and stood up to pull her into his arms. “And many more we’re going to make in the future!”
“What isit you’ve got to tell us?” Carolyn said into the phone ten minutes later. “That you had to get Diane and me on at the same time.”
Garrett looked at his brother. “We did it. Without your help too,” he told his wife. “I know you told Chloe to play with us, but she didn’t.”
“Did what?” Diane asked.
