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"I had someone call her from the bar and tell her they would be closed for a few days and she would be notified, so I convinced her to stay at my hotel, all expenses paid, until they transfer the new ownership into her and Jess's name of the bar and everything those pricks owned.
"The town."
"Yeah, she's been working in that shithole for years. If anyone deserves to own it, it's Amanda Sharpe and her daughter." I nod my head.
"You bought a town for the girl that you love."
I nod. "And I took her to prom."
"And she met your other half. You can't forget about him."
"She gets two rides for the price of one. You're a genius."
I grab an orange and toss it at his head. "Apparently, not quite. I still have to ask her to marry me as my chosen and I’m not sure she loves me."
He catches it and tosses it on the counter and smirks. "So, get a marriage license and schedule the ceremony like the Order dictates at the end of the year. Get married on paper and wait" ––he makes silent quotation marks–– "on the church. Then ask her. Tell her to sign on the dotted line, and it's done.”
"Do you have an idea of how I can ask?"
He grins. "Who's asking?"
He is trying to give me shit because of his brother and how he asked Gia to marry them both, but I don't have a choice, and they did.
"Yeah. Let me call him, and I'll get back to you," I say sarcastically, glaring at him.
He places the cup down that he’s drinking, laughing at me. Fucker. He thinks this is funny, and all I can think about is the girl currently upstairs in my bed that means the world to me.
* * *
I make my way up the stairs with the ring in my pocket. I found it in the clothes I was wearing last night. All I remember is that I was in Dravin’s house with Jess in bed with one of the masks I wear on the desk. When it happens, I black out. I never leave it on the dresser, and I never leave it out in the open when I go to the Consortium’s meetings.
I knew what happened before having to ask; it has been happening more when she is around, and of course, I haven’t been taking the meds for obvious reasons, and I don’t plan to.
I open the box, the flawless white diamond with two black diamonds on each side and I smile. I know what to do. It is the only way I can express how I feel. Jess isn’t the type that needs an announcement. It needs to mean something. I just hope she can accept me for who and what I am.
CHAPTER46
Jess
My eyes squint, and I feel safe, floating on a cloud. One of my legs feels the cold air, and the other feels warm under the thick comforter, and I know by the feeling that I’m in Reid’s room.
I peel my eyes open and feel something heavy on my hand. It’s a ring. I rub it between my fingers and feel something smooth on top near my knuckle.
My eyes focus, and I stare. I just stare at the massive three diamonds on my finger.
“Good morning, my love.”
My eyes find Reid sitting in the chair, and I know it's him because of his voice. It isn’t as deep, and he enunciates his words differently. I fell asleep looking through my phone at his condition. Multiple dissociative personality disorder. It manifests when something traumatic can affect you mentally. In his case, his sister, Alicia’s death and how he just had to accept it but couldn’t deal with the blow of the pain.
Things can trigger it and manifest the disorder. I believe I was the trigger. He confessed he wasn’t taking the meds they gave him, which made him so moody.
"Good morning." I smile and point to my crazy bed hair. "I'm sorry, I look like a wild animal this morning.
He was tugging on it last night and in the shower, or Zero was. He worshipped my body, telling me how sorry he was and to repeatedly hold him. I held him until Reid came back to me. I cried when he didn't remember everything. I showed him the letters and he read them to me. He also told me his plans for my mother and me.
I sit up, and there is a folder on the bed.
My gaze finds his, and he points. "Open it."
