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“I know.”
“But, it’s like identical, how–”
“Surprise,” he says, kissing my cheek from my side.
“This is…”
“Oh my god I’m too pregnant for this!” Arianna groans. “Do you love it!?”
“I’m so confused right now.”
It’s the estate. Our estate. Every brick, color and shape of our mansion. Here. In Italy. Jasper, blocks my view, grabbing my hands.
“All you’ve ever wanted was a family. And the only family I’ve got is here. I figure you might want to live a few miles away from them. You know, for the rest of our lives. So I had the estate remodeled here. It’s not exactly the same, but close, and the garden out back has the fountain–”
Thick tears tumble down my cheeks. “You want to move here? Really? For me?”
Arianna sniffles, whispering to Luca how romantic this is.
Jasper wipes my tears away with his thumbs. “There’s one condition though. Well, two actually.”
I gulp.
“One. You still need that flower shop, hm? So this weekend you’re going store-front hunting with Arianna. And two, you have to say yes,” he pauses, pulling a small black box from his jacket pocket. “To being my wife.”
The little box opens, presenting an oval cut ring, with a middletoned pink stone and little white diamonds surrounding it. More tears, more hot and too-big-for-my-eyes-to-handle tears fall. Wordlessly I walk into him, setting my head on his chest trying to calm down. Squeezing him so hard I think I might be hurting my arms in the process.
“I can’t get down on a knee if you don’t let me go, dollface,” he whispers.
“Don’t let me go,” I demand. “Yes. No kneeling, I’ll faint. But yes.God yes.”
Cheers erupt around us. Everyone exchanges hugs and Arianna babbles about how much fun we're going to have.
I’ve lusted after two things for my entire life. Love, and family. Jasper Aroselyn has given them both to me and I’m going to marry the absolute shit out of him.
No one has made me burn like he does every day.
I’m hopelessly burnt for my baby, and I wouldn’t have it any other way.
THE END
Well, that shithurt. At least it did for me. Second chance romance is not something I can handle writing or reading often because I’m a big ole baby when it comes to regret and guilt. I think we can all take a page from Jasper’s playbook and sayfuck youto the things that plague us. Let that bullshit go, and LIVE.
It’s a great big world filled with great big books to read besties.
I also need to give a fat shout out to booktok and bookstagram. All you content-making baddies seriously rock my world. The community of romance readers is all powerful. Really, we could run the world in 3-5 business days with only a solid night’s sleep and some margaritas to fuel us. Continue to be epic, please.
Thanks for taking the journey, and as always, let me know what you think!
I’m a sucker for your messages!
- K.L Mann
Want to know more about Arianna? Keep reading to see the first chapter of my most popular story,I’ll Burn Anyone.
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