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“He couldn’t be in better hands,” he assured me. “How are you feeling?”
“Much better than I expected. I promise I’m okay with everyone in the room,” I told him. “I like the company, especially since everyone is so in love with him.”
“I know.”
“Then why did you kick them out?”
He cleared his throat and stood, looking down at me. “We have a kid together. We’ve been through more shit together than most people have ever gone through together, and we couldn’t be stronger. I fell in love with a fiery, independent and badass woman, and she’s going to make the best mother, too.”
“I really hope you’re talking about me,” I teased, unsure where this proclamation was going.
“For once,tesora, let me finish,” he begged, grabbing my hand and pulling it to his lips. “I am so fucking in love with you, and I was going to wait to do this, but I don’t think I can. After seeing everything you did—seeing you give birth to our child and love him as effortlessly as you love me—there was no more waiting. I love you, and I plan on showing you that for the rest of my life. I know that I don’t do much by the law, but there’s one thing that I want to do in the most legal way possible.”
I began shaking my head, taken completely aback by his words. He couldn’t possibly mean…
But there it was. He pulled a red satin box from his pocket—a pocket I could have touched all day—and opened it. A diamond, large and more stunning than any I’d ever seen, sat in the box. The dainty shape was exactly what I would have picked out for myself, and I wondered how he’d known me this well.
“Sierra, would you do me the honor of loving me for the rest of your life and marrying me?”
“Carlo,” I cried, placing a hand over one mouth and extending the other. He slipped the ring over my finger as I nodded quickly. “Of course I’ll marry you.”
He pulled me forward, and our lips crashed together in a heated moment full of all the love and passion that’d made our relationship rich and full. I couldn’t fathom how we’d come so far—how I’d gone from hating him to feeling this intense passion for him. Everything about Carlo drew me in, and as his lips caressed mine in a way that had me pulling him closer, only his slight tug kept me from acting on my irrational whims. I’d had his baby less than a day ago, and we couldn’t do more right now.
“You couldn’t have asked me this yesterday before I had him?” I cried. “So we could cement this engagement the traditional way?”
“I think we’ve cemented it plenty of times,” he teased.
He was right, of course. We had, and once I was healed, we’d continue doing so. We may have had a difficult past, but I’d never felt as whole and happy as I did at that moment—in Carlo’s arms with my baby boy down the hall. I didn’t know how my life had brought me here, but I couldn’t imagine ever being happier.
