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‘Download them for me and we can compare notes.’
‘Unfortunately my brain isn’t connected to the internet.’
‘Summarise the lists for me,’ she said, ‘and then we won’t have to figure out how to connect you.’
‘We will get you some clothes first. Then travel to Sicily, where we will be married—’
‘Married?’
‘By next week,’ he answered, as if this was the most normal thing in the world. He looked out of the window at the greying clouds. ‘If the weather holds, even sooner.’
‘Why so fast?’
‘Why not?’ he asked nonchalantly. ‘And after the wedding we’ll prepare the house for the birth of our child.’
‘The house you grew up in?’
‘The very same.’
‘I’d like to see where you grew up, and my parents would like to meet you.’
‘Impossible,’ he dismissed.
‘Why impossible?’ she asked, when no explanation was forthcoming.
‘My pilot has taken the chopper to collect clothes from a boutique in Cornwall.’ He named the shop.
Flora gasped. ‘They dress celebrities!’
‘Now they dress billionaires’ fiancées too,’ he added smoothly, and her heart hiccupped.
‘I’m not your fiancée yet.’
‘Semantics,’ he dismissed. ‘When my pilot returns,’ Raffaele continued, ‘we lift anchor,’ he said. ‘We will arrive in Sicily in three days—a week at worst.’
‘Okay...’ She placed her hands on her thighs, squared her shoulders and put on her most serious face. ‘First, you need toaskif I’d like to marry you—rather thantellme I will. Second,ifI agree to marry you, you need to ask if I’dliketo take your name.’
‘Would you like me to get down on one knee too?’
Her stomach flipped. He was good on his knees... A blush heated her all the way up from her chest, to turn her cheeks into a crimson beacon. She ignored it. And her wayward thoughts. And the memory of his kisses.
‘The words will do just fine,’ she said.
His chest puffed out. ‘Flora?’
She swallowed thickly. ‘Yes, Raffaele.’
‘Will you marry me and take my name?’
‘Is that one question or two?’
Thick eyebrows arched. ‘Pardon?’
‘Will I marry you is one question, right?’
He dipped his head.‘Si.’
‘If I say yes to marriage, but no to taking your name, does that instantly cancel out the first question, so the second doesn’t really matter?’
