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Bethany stumbled backward, yanking her hand out of his grasp.“What?”
“I asked—”
“Iknowwhat you asked. Are you insane? First a whole dang flower shop and then a bracelet and then diamonds and thenthis?”
“I’m sorry I went overboard. That I’m going overboard. That it’s too fast. I’m sorry about the cake, too.”
“Don’t to be sorry about the cake. You never have to be sorry about chocolate cake.”
“And I’m sorry this is so sudden, but I mean it. I want to marry you. Marry me?”
“We don’t have to get married just because we slept together! Is that a dragon thing? When you said your dragon culture was conservative—”
Math climbed to his feet and looked down at her. “Of course not. I’ve never proposed to anyone before, and I’ve slept with hundreds of women.”
“Hundreds?”she shrieked.
“Please, let’s not make this more complicated.”
“I didn’t know I was dating a dragon-whore. Explains why you were so good at it, though.Practice.”
“Bethany, please! Can we talk about this?”
“This is crazy. You’re crazy. I told you that I would tell you if you got stalker-ish, and so I’m telling you. We had one night together.One night!I mean, it was great.”
“It was great. It wasreallygreat,” Math said.
“And I don’t know what to do with that, now. I wasn’t that great. I mean, I wasn’t a noob at it, but I haven’t had nearly as muchpracticeas you.But one night, even agreatnight, doesn’t mean we have to get married!”
“Before you answer—”
“Dude, I think I just did.”
“—I need to tell you more about mating with a dragon.”
“Wait,mating?You said I couldn’t get knocked up. That’s why we didn’t use a condom.Did you lie to me?”
“That’s not what I meant. You shouldn’t be pregnant after last night. We’re not mated, so I think you can’t become pregnant. Otherwise, I need to call some people.”
“I’m on the Pill, anyway. If I wasn’t on the Pill, I would have told you to flagon that dragon.”
“I’m questioning everything they taught me right now. I’m sorry to throw this at you with no warning.”
“It’s weird! Proposing after one date is weird!” Bethany shrieked.
“Iknow.I don’t know what else to say, but I’m sorry.”
“You could take it back! Or we could table this conversation for a few months or a year or more or something!”
“We can’t do that.”
“Of course, we can!”
“Unfortunately, it seems we can’t. And I don’t mean that we shouldn’t or we won’t. I mean that wecan’t.”Math grabbed her hand and led her over to the couch. He sat on the chair next to it so that their knees were touching, and he held her hands. He ran his thumb over her knuckles. “Your hands are so soft.”
“Okay, thanks.”
He lifted her hand to his mouth and kissed her knuckles, then turned her arm over and ran his lips over the inside of her wrist.
