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Except it’s not really a promise ring.
In my head, this is our wedding night, in case we don’t ever get to have one. Delphine might not know it in this exact moment, but if tonight’s our last, then this final memory will be of our union.
Tonight’s the night we married. If I die taking out Lucius, I’ll die knowing I married the woman I love. Even if I only got a couple hours with her in this way.
She’s my wife.
I take a knee and hold up the ring.
“Will you marry me?”
Her smile brightens, if that’s at all possible. Clueless she’s really saying yes to more than an engagement—in my mind, as far as I’m concerned—she nods and chokes out, “Yes! Jon, of course!”
I slide the ring onto her finger and taste her sweet, smiling lips.
Several times she pulls away to glance at the ring and then at me with a shocked smile.
I almost tell her the truth. But… Delphine would cry. She would protest. She would never let me leave.
What I have planned is the only way.
“I should’ve known,” she whispers. “Of course you’d do something like this tonight.”
“Take you by surprise?”
“That’s an understatement.”
“You realize you’ve agreed to be my wife, right? There’s no take backs now,” I say with a throaty laugh.
She glances down at her hand, staring at the ring. “I’d marry you tonight, Jon.”
You already have, Phi. In my heart. In my soul.
If souls exist. I’ve never been the kind of guy to believe in them… ‘til I realized I fell for Delphine, and hers and mine were joined…
Under the starlit sky, we sway some more in each other’s arms. She’s beautiful and glowing in the satiny white dress that shows off her curves as she looks up at me with warm, loving eyes. I’m memorizing it all.
If I could stop time and make this night endless, I would.
Eventually, regrettably, my men arrive, and remind me of the schedule I’ve given them. Time’s run out for our dinner date.
I hold Delphine’s hand on our stroll to the car. “We’ll have a good rest of the night.”
Even if it’s our last.
salvatore
Delphine disappearsinto the bathroom the moment we make it to the villa. Fine by me, since I use the time to pour us some wine and slip a sedative for later in Delphine’s glass (a necessary evil considering my plan). Then I light a fire in the fireplace of our bedroom. I’m stoking the burning wood and sliding the gate into place when the bathroom door swings open and Delphine appears in my periphery.
It’s the second time in a few hours I’m doing a double take looking up at her. The first time was in awe of how beautiful she looked wearing the ‘wedding’ dress I’d picked out for her. This time, I’m left drinking in the sight of her with much dirtier thoughts.
My body heats up standing by the fireplace, but not from its burning flames.
As it turns out, I wasn’t the only one planning a surprise tonight.
I set down the fire poker and realize my next inhale sounds ragged in my chest.
For good reason—Delphine’s changed into a sexy piece of red lingerie that has me about to swallow my fucking tongue like a dumbcazzo.
