It was his turn to laugh. “Are you serious, Katie? After what you’re doing for me? This is nothing.” He reached for her hand again and held it gently as he looked directly in her eyes. “Katie,” he said softly. “I’d do anything for you.”
She looked at him as if she were trying to figure him out. A moment later, her face split into the biggest smile he’d ever seen. “This is amazing, Damon. Thank you. I have so many ideas I don’t even know where to start. Thank you so much. I’m so happy, I could just kiss you right now.”
“Well, why don’t you then?”
The smile on her face slipped a little. “What?”
He shrugged, trying to come off casual when he felt anything but. “Why don’t you kiss me then? After all, we are getting married.”
Katie examined him for a minute and just when he thought she might actually lean across the seat and do just that, she burst out into laughter. “Nice try, buddy. That’s a good one.”
He laughed along with her before driving the rest of the way down the mountain to get his things and check out of the hotel. But for Damon, that’s where the joke ended because even though Katie was trying to blow off their earlier kiss as all part of the act, he couldn’t shake the feeling that for him, it had been anything but.