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Her hand flies to her mouth. “Drew?”
She stares as I flip open the box, revealing the rock inside. Maddy told me I had to go big or go home, and the way Sophie’s eyes bounce between mine and the three-carat brilliant cut diamond, I’m glad I listened.
Because my girl is speechless.
“I have a question for you.” I remove the ring and toss the box over my shoulder because the cocky bastard inside me hopes I won’t be needing it again.
She can’t say no. I wouldn’t have fallen so damn hard in love with a woman who makes my chest physically ache from just looking at her just to have her turn me down.
Please, God.
I look up at her, my heart laid fucking bare, because she’s the only person who’s ever had the power to tear it to shreds.
“Will you marry me, Ms. Havers? Because I love you so much that if I had to, I’d gladly die for you a billion times over. And I’d do it with a smile on my face.”
She stares at me. And blinks. And stares.
“Sophie?”
She half sobs, half laughs, and nods.
“You’ve got to say it.” I press my lips against her stomach, kissing her bump again. “Say it out loud. Put me out of my fucking misery and let me shout it to the world that you’re going to be my wife, the mother of our babies, my whole world.”
“Mr. Harper,” she whispers. “I love you, too. Yes!”
The air in my lungs snags.
“Yes?”
“Yes!” She nods again, her face lighting up.
I slide the ring onto her finger and then rest my head against her body, the soft fabric stretched across her bump soaking up the wetness racing down my cheeks as I hold her to me.
“Thank you,” I choke.
Her hands sink into my hair, stroking me as I just breathe her in. Breathe in every damn sensation, including the electricity thrumming through my veins as I gather myself.
Then something moves against my forehead.
I pull my head back and snap my eyes up to meet hers. “Did you feel that?”
She looks at her stomach in shock as I press my palm against it.
It’s tiny, but it’s there again. A tiny flutter. A rumble. A murmur.
My heart soars in my chest as I grin.
“I think the babies approve.”
Chapter 25
Drew
“You look so damnsexy, Mama.” I look at Sophie on my laptop screen, admiring the curve of her belly as we sit and chat again, just like we did last night when I arrived in New York.
“You like this, huh?” She bites her lower lip as she trails her fingertips down over the T-shirt of mine that she’s taken to sleeping in now that her pajamas are getting tight and uncomfortable. She slides it up, exposing her skin.
“Fuck yeah.” I lick my lips as she uncovers her stomach, which is growing more swollen by the day. “God, what I’d do to you if I were with you right now.”
