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I force my feet to move me deeper into the maze, the next turn showcasing yet another picture, this one of the three kids in the nursery playing together.
I keep moving, each turn lit with candles and another picture hanging.
When I make it to the center of the maze, I don’t find the massive bucket of candy and toys that we put there as a reward for the kids completing the maze. In the center is Vincent, down on one knee, with an open ring box in his hands, the firelight from the hundreds of candles surrounding him glistening off the diamond.
“Mila,” he says when I step up to him.
I press my finger to his lips.
“You have to know what you’re getting into,” I whisper, my throat clogged with emotion.
“I know exactly what I’m doing,” he says, his lips working against my finger. “Three kids, and Jace was asking about a dog.”
“More than three kids,” I correct.
I chuckle when his eyes drop to my stomach.
“Not yet,” I assure him. I still have my IUD from after Sutton was born. “But I’m going to want more kids.”
“Are we going to start competing with Hound and Gigi?”
“Maybe?”
“Honestly, more kids excites me. I want to be a part of it from the very beginning.”
Old pain strikes out at me from the past, but I shove it down as fast as it rises. He’s never punished me for the choices I made in the past, so I do my best not to dwell on it. If he has forgiven me, then it’s damn time I forgive myself.
“Mila, will you marry me?”
I hate the uncertainty in his eyes because I know I’m the one that put it there.
“Yes, of course I’ll marry you.”
He slow blinks at me as if he can’t believe my answer. Either that or he thinks I’m going to take it back.
“Do I get to wear the ring or will it just stay in the—”
“Of course,” he says, fumbling with the box and nearly dropping it in his rush to get the ring out.
As crazy as it sounds, I feel complete the second he slides the ring on my finger.
“Jesus, baby. You’re sure? You’re not going to change your mind?” He stands, his hands going to my face so I’m looking up at him.
“I’ve never been more certain of anything in my life.”
His lips are on mine in the next breath. By the time we come up for air, half of our clothes have been tossed to the ground.
“Up,” he says, urging me off my feet and I wrap my legs around his waist.
I moan in relief when he slides me down his length, our lips but an inch from each other’s.
Our connection is fast and raw and utterly perfect, just how I know the rest of our lives together will be.
We no longer hold anything back.
We have no secrets.
Chapter 39
