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“Good because I was thinking next weekend would work well…no?” he said when she bit her lower lip, her telltale new sign that she wasn’t sure about it yet.
“It’s just that if we aren’t pregnant I’ll likely be starting then and I don’t want to spend our wedding night unable to make love to you,” she admitted.
“You never…while on your cycle?” he asked, and she shook her head no. “Well, it’ll be a first for us then or if you’re not comfortable with going that far we can always make love in other ways. I can worship your breasts until you’re flying over a peak again…”
“You honestly wouldn’t mind if we didn’t make love that night?”
“Baby, as long as you’re sleeping in my arms I’ll be fine. So, what do you say, next weekend? We’ll take the week off for a honeymoon at the ranch and then come back to work together?” he said, and she nodded not wanting to delay it a moment further. “Good, now let’s get inside before someone thinks I’m trying to seduce you in the car.”
“I love you Will,” she said wrapping her hand in his as they moved into the house greeting the others already there.
“Olivia, oh sweetie, you look so good,” his mother said cupping her cheeks before hugging her and his father kissed the top of her head the way her own did, bringing a sheen of tears to her eyes. Will saw them and dropped a kiss onto her temple, gathering her back up against him as the others watched closely.
“You certainly seem relaxed,” Dan said looking between them. “Anything we should know about?”
“The monster’s gone, fully, completely gone and I’m free,” Olivia said as her mother covered her mouth as her own set of happy tears flooded her eyes. “I’m free to be me, to love who I want, be with who I want…marry who I want,” she added sliding her hand up to rest on Will’s chest, letting the group see the ring proudly displayed on her finger.
“Oh my god!” Jess gasped looking from her to Will then back to her and finally back to Will. “You proposed and she said yes?”
“No,” Will answered surprising the group further.
“Then where’d the small pond sitting on my sister’s finger come from?” Dan questioned making her laugh.
“That was from me last night, but I didn’t propose,” Will said as Jess glared at him.
“Then why buy a ring?”
“Because it’s what a man does when he’s engaged if he hasn’t already bought a ring,” he replied making Olivia laugh as Jess and Dan shared a confused look and their parents shook their heads right along with them.
“You’re engaged but you didn’t propose? How does that work?” Jess asked.
“I asked him to marry me,” Olivia said shocking the group and Dan let out a peal of laughter that filled the room.
“You proposed to him? Oh man that’s rich…” he said unable to stop laughing.
“Be nice or you’re not invited to the wedding,” she warned letting Will’s arms surround her and a happy smile settle onto her lips. “Yes, I asked him because I knew he wouldn’t push me into anything. I didn’t want to have to drop hints that it was what I wanted or was ready for it. I honestly didn’t know I was until he said he wanted the whole nine yards with me—the house, picket fence, two point four kids…”
“Dog, cat, horse, pig,” Will teased kissing her nose as she glanced up at him, her eyes sparkling with her happiness. “Only she said to change it to rabbits, and she was in…and then she asked me. How’s a man supposed to refuse?”
“He’s not when it’s the woman he loves,” his mother stated smiling brightly.
“I knew she would be the one for you, didn’t I?” his father questioned, and she lifted a brow at Will about what he meant.
“Dad suggested I should make you more permanent around the office after you’d been there about three months. I told him he was nuts and forgot about it…until I realized I was head over heels in love with you. I should have listened to him, made you mine a long time ago,” Will said, knowing he had a lot to make up to her.
“You’re mine now, that’s all that matters,” she reassured him as Russell smiled seeing them happy together.
“Well, this calls for a bottle of something,” Helen stated, and Will nodded moving back to the entryway where he’d stashed the champagne bottles they’d brought with them. “That’ll certainly do. Tara, would you like to help me with the glasses?”
“Love to Helen, but first, when are you two thinking of having the wedding? We have a cruise planned in two months and we’ll need to reschedule it now if you’re thinking anytime close to then,” Tara said looking between her son and Olivia.
“No need for that Mom,” Will said smiling down into Olivia’s eyes. “Just keep next weekend open because we don’t want to wait, and the next time Livy answers the phone at work it’ll be as Olivia Masters.”
“You’re going back?” her father asked.
“I am…so, think we can plan a wedding in a week?” she asked the group, and their answer was a wholehearted yes.
She quickly discovered that between her mother and Tara, a wedding in a week was entirely possible, and a week and a day later, she was standing in a wedding dress that was simple and elegant, that flowed over her body and caressed her the way Will did every night. Her father had tears in his eyes when he saw her for the first time, and she knew this was harder than the first time he’d given her away.
