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“Little dove…” His pale eyes drifted over my face, with hunger and affection. “Before you, I didn’t even bring women home to my apartment to spend the night. I’m asking you to move in with me. To be my partner. And my sub, when you want to be. In my books, that means potentially forever. So yes, I’ve thought about marrying you.”
“Wow,” I breathed.
He raised an eyebrow. “You haven’t thought about marrying me?”
“Well… yeah. I thought about everything. From the very worst scenario to the very best.”
“And the best would be…?”
I shrugged, hoping it didn’t sound too sappy. “You know. Happily ever after.”
But he didn’t smile or roll his eyes or make fun of me at all. Instead, he said seriously, “If you want to, we could probably use the officiant from Margot and Jacob’s wedding and do it first thing in the morning, before we go home to Vancouver.”
I grabbed onto his arms, feeling weirdly faint.
Was he for real right now?
“Shane.”
He looked amused. “You okay?”
“You just said you’d marry me. Right now.”
“Because I would.”
“You would?”
“I would seriously consider it if you would.”
“That’s ridiculous!” I sighed. “And ridiculously romantic. But we can’t get married.”
He still looked amused. “We can’t?”
“I know I pretend that I hate weddings. But… I want to be a bride one day,” I admitted, “and have a real wedding of my own.”
“Then just stay. And one day, we can get married. If I’m your husband and you’re my wife, they’ll all have to shut up with their judgement.”
“So… you’d have sex with me just to upset them,” I teased, “and you’d marry me just to shut them up.”
“No. I had sex with you because I fucking wanted to,” he growled. “And I’ll marry you because I love you.”
Then he kissed me again. Dominantly.
“Did you just propose to me?” I gushed when he let me up for air.
He smiled. “I guess I did.”
“Hmm. Did I say yes?”
“Not really.”
I took a deep breath. “Yes.”
Shane’s eyes warmed as he gazed at me. “Good answer.”
“Did we just get engaged?”
“Yup.”
