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Dr. Stevens wraps her up and takes her away.
“I don’t even have words.” Dante looks at me with so much love in his eyes. “You’re amazing, Mia, truly amazing. What you did…I can’t even explain it.”
I feel on cloud nine. All the worry, tiredness as well as pain, melt away.
“I love you so much, Dante.”
“I love you too,little bird.” He reaches down to kiss me on the lips so gently, like he thinks I’m going to break. “There was something I was going to ask you tonight, before you went into labor…”
I blink up at him as I tear my eyes away from Alia. Dr. Stevens is weighing and wrapping her back in a little pink blanket.
“What were you going to ask me?” I ask with bright eyes.
He looks at me for a long time, then drops down onto one knee right at my bedside.
“Dante! What the hell are you doing?”
“I figure now is as good a time as any.” He shrugs, reaching around into his back pocket. “Mia Michaelson … will you do me the absolute honor of becoming my wife?”
I gasp because everything I could possibly want is here in this room. With him.
My hands fly up to my face as I try, and fail, not to cry again.
“Oh my God, Dante, yes! I’ll marry you. Of course, I will!”
A slow grin spreads across his face. “I’m glad because I’ve got plans for my two girls.” Hot damn, he sounds so sexy saying that.
Before I can blink, he flicks the Tiffany box lid open to reveal a large, princess-cut diamond ring that’s so sparkly it just about blinds me.
“Dante, it’s beautiful!”
He pulls it out of the box and slides it onto my finger as I hold out my hand to admire it.
He stands and reaches down to kiss me as I throw my arms around his neck.
Dr. Stevens smiles broadly. “Congratulations,” he says, handing our daughter back to us.
Once she’s in our arms, we just stare at her in disbelief.
Dante gently caresses her head as he beams at her.
“She’s perfect, just like her Momma.”
I smile at him, my heart so full it could burst.
“You mean like her Papa?”
He grins. “I’m a Father!”
“Yep, you are. God help us,” I mutter that last part as he shakes his head, laughing.
“I’ll love you forever,” he whispers, kissing our daughter's head. “This is the best moment of my life…”
“We love you too,” I say, feeling so much love in this room it overwhelms me. “Forever and always.”
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THREE MONTHS AFTER THAT
