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I didn’t hesitate in proposing, “Marry me, Evie.”
Her stare widened while her arms flailed around.
“Have you lost your mind?!”
“Actually, for the first time in my life, I’m thinking pretty fucking clearly.”
“Caleb, you’re insane!”
“Insanely in love with you.” I opened the drawer on the nightstand next to me, grabbing the turquoise Tiffany box I’d left in there.
“Caleb…” she warned, her voice laced with unease.
“What?” I played coy, sitting up against the headboard. “It’s your birthday present.”
“My birthday was yesterday.”
“I was busy making love to you all night. Consider it a late gift.”
“Caleb…”
“Don’t you want to open it?”
“No.”
“No?”
“What’s in it?”
“You know what’s in it, Evie.”
Since she wasn’t moving from the spot she seemed cemented to, I opened the box for her. As soon as she saw the five-karat princess cut diamond ring shining bright against the sun, she loudly gasped and her hands shot to her mouth.
Fervently shaking her head, she yelled, “Oh my God! How long have you had—”
“Since you showed up at my doorstep, claiming you were the new nanny.”
“I am the new nanny.”
“Sweetheart, we both know you’re much more than that.”
“We’ve barely been speaking up until yesterday, and every time we did talk, we were arguing.”
“That wasn’t fighting.”
“Oh, really? What would you define it as?”
“Fucking foreplay.”
“I can’t believe you. I don’t even know what to say to you.”
“A yes would be great.”
“Are you asking me because you want your kids to have a mom?”
I expected her to say that, but it didn’t take away the sting I felt deep in my core.
“I want you to be my wife because I love you. We’ve already lost eight years, Evie. I’m done playing games. I want you in our lives forever, and I’ll do whatever it takes to make that happen. It’s really quite simple, darlin’.”
