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“Just hold on, Arya,” he said, as he opened the closet door. He opened a small box and took out a key and handed it to me. “And this is for you.”
“Okay. Thank you.”
“It’s a key.”
“I can see that.” I nodded. “A key to what, though?”
“It’s a key to my heart.” He pressed his lips against my forehead.
“Thank you. That’s really sweet,” I said, as I kissed his lips. “I didn’t know you could be so romantic.”
“I’m sorry.” He started laughing. “That was totally ridiculous.”
“What?” I asked him in confusion.
“Sorry, I was being corny. It’s not a key to my heart. You already have the key to my heart.”
“Um, okay. So then, what’s it a key to?”
“Our house.”
“Our what?” I stared at him in shock. “What do you mean, our house?”
“I mean our house.”
“But we live here on the ranch with your family.”
“And we’re about to start our own family.”
“But you can’t afford it. You got—”
“As I’m sure you know,” he said, cutting me off, “all of us brothers have a trust fund that is not connected to the ranch. It’s our own personal money to do with what we will. I’ve used some of it as a down payment on a small ranch about ten miles up the road.”
“But we can’t do a ranch. It’s too much work!”
“It’s not going to be a working ranch,” he said. “It’s only five acres. I got it for the land so that we can have horses. Eloise loves to ride, and I want her to be able to get her own pony.”
“But—”
“But nothing. We’re starting a life together. You, me, Eloise, and the new baby, and I want to start it right. I’ve already gotten things a little bit out of order, and I apologize for that.”
“You don’t have to apologize for that.”
“No, I do because you deserve the best.”
“Are you saying me getting married pregnant isn’t the best?”
“No, I’m saying that I want you to know that I love you, and I’m marrying you because I love you. I’m not marrying you because we’re having a baby.”
“I know that,” I said softly, “though that had been a fear in my mind.”
“I can read you like a book, Arya,” he said softly, cradling my face. “I know a part of you wonders if I still want to marry you if you weren’t pregnant. I do, and I would, and I just want you to know that this is forever.”
“I love you so much, Chet. I don’t know how I got so lucky.”
“I don’t know how I got so lucky, either,” he said. “I mean, maybe it’s because I’m just really good-looking and really funny and really…” He started laughing. “Okay, I’ll stop.”
“You really are so obnoxious, aren’t you?”
