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“What? And you left her alone,” Adrian said.
“No, I hired two bodyguards. They’re to watch her twenty-four/seven,” he said. “The next morning, she had to go to work, so I kept the baby. I went to our old attorney and he agreed to draft a prenup. I then went to the jewelry store and bought an engagement ring. That night, I laid the prenup by her plate.”
Madison shook her head and moaned. “That’s how you asked her to marry you?”
Come to think of it, he didn’t ask her to marry him. He just sort of assumed that with the prenup she would agree and he’d planned to give her the ring afterward.
“I thought once she agreed to sign the prenup I’d get down on one knee and propose,” he said realizing he’d once again fulfilled what all his exes said about him. He was clueless.
Snickers came from his brothers as they gazed at him with sympathy in their eyes. He didn’t want their pity. He just wanted to learn how to fix what he’d broken. And he’d really broken his relationship with Cristina.
“Blake,” Madison said gazing at him. “Let me tell you a little something about women. You did everything in the wrong order. Please tell me you told her you loved her and wanted to spend the rest of your life with you. You do love her?”
“Yes, I love her,” he said realizing he hadn’t even told her he loved her. Not even after they had made love all night long. How must she be feeling? “But I haven’t told her my feelings.”
The memory of her saying that she would not marry unless she was in love slapped him upside the head. He’d screwed everything up.
A groan resounded around the table from his brothers.
“One of our problems is my money,” he said. “The night we met, I complained about how all women wanted me for was my money, and since then, I’ve had to fight to give her anything.”
Evan sat back and shook his head. “And that’s why she didn’t tell you she was pregnant. Because she didn’t want you to believe she was just after your money. So she did her best to hide Wyatt and raise him on her own without you. It’s a wonder you found out.”
It was true.
“You’re not very good at this,” Dakota told him.
“No, I’m not,” he admitted. “Even my old exes told me that I was distant and they didn’t know what I was thinking.”
Madison reached out, took his hand, and squeezed it. “But you can do better.”
“How?”
“Let’s start with redoing this prenup. Let me draft one for you. In it, I would recommend you put something in that if you die, she gets the house, the cars, and an allowance of ten thousand a month. Does that seem fair?”
“Yes,” he said. “Mainly I want my children to receive everything regarding the ranch. The rest I don’t care about.”
It was the ranch that he was trying to protect. And he really didn’t think Cristina wanted the ranch, but she would want their children to have their part.
“Yes, but your wife is going to need an allowance to live on,” Madison said. “She may not want your billions, but she wants to know she’s not going to have to go out and find a job when she’s sixty.”
He could see that.
“Then I want you to call the reporters and have them show up at her apartment about the same time you get there. Before God and all the reporters, I want you to profess your love for her. How you can’t live without her. That she’s had your heart since the night you guys conceived Wyatt.”
Speechless, he stared at his future sister-in-law. It was true. That was why he’d run that morning. He realized that Cristina was the one who had wrapped her arms around his heart and made him feel emotions he’d never felt. He’d gotten scared and fled that apartment and her as fast as he could. And yet she’d always been on the edge of his mind.
“You have to make this a grand gesture. One that she’ll never forget. One that makes her realize you love her, not Wyatt, but her.”
“But I do love, Wyatt,” he said.
“Oh, she knows that, but she doesn’t know you love her. A woman has to know you love her. Why would she want to spend her life doing your dirty laundry and having your kids if you don’t adore her?”
He could see that. He’d been so stupid. Because they’d been together, he just assumed she knew he loved her. What had he been thinking? Obviously, he hadn’t been.
“Why can’t he do that beneath the oak tree where we always ask someone to marry us?” Adrian asked.
Madison glanced at Adrian. “Do you think Cristina is going to come out to the ranch? Right now, she needs a big grand gesture that proves he loves her. And if Blake wants her in his life, then he’s going to have to give her one.”
