Page 95 of Wild For You

“Of course, I know who you are, Cash. When are we getting married?”

The footage ends.

I don’t even dare to look at him. After watching this, I don’t know how I’ll ever be able to face him again, talk to him, even manage to be in his presence without the picture of me revealing my plans to have his children entering my mind.

Embarrassment can’t even begin to describe what I’m feeling.

As a child and teen, I used to sleepwalk, but I thought I had grown out of it like a kid grows out of a pair of shoes. I thought I had left it all behind, but apparently not.

“You should have shown me the video straight away.”

“I wanted to save it for a special occasion,” Cash says.

“I don’t know what to say,” I mutter. “Of course I didn’t mean any of it.”

“So you say, but your unconscious knows better.”

I lift my gaze to regard him. “Yes, but that doesn’t mean I really want us to get married. This…” I point to the phone. “I wasn’t supposed to say it like that.”

Cash smiles, and a strange glint appears in his eyes.

“What?” I prompt.

“Aren’t you going to ask me what I replied to your question?”

Do I even want to know?

I notice the way he blinks.

I notice the way his lips quirk.

All in slow motion.

“What did you say?” I whisper.

“I said proposing is a guy’s job.” He reaches into his pocket and pulls out a box. My eyes meet his, and for a moment I forget to breathe.

Surely…it can’t be what I think—no, make that hope—it is…

Cash opens the box, revealing a ring.

“I want to marry you, Erin,” he says softly. “But for different reasons than you want to marry me. Even though I love your body and can’t wait to have sex every single day, I also love you. I told you this before, and I intend to tell you every single day for the rest of our lives.” He pauses to take my hand in his. “I love you for all the right reasons. While I don’t expect you to marry me now, I want you to be mine someday. So will you, Erin Stone, do me the honor and marry me when the time is right? When you don’t think we’re being too rash, going too fast, and the idea seems less crazy?”

“Wow.” My cheeks are hurting from so much smiling, and I can barely pry my gaze off the beautiful halo diamond ring. “Wow.”

I finally look up into Cash’s green eyes, and that’s when my tears start to fall like tiny rivulets of happiness.

This moment is so unlike any other I’ve ever experienced. It’s so crazy and unreal that it really suits Cash. I wouldn’t have expected anything else from him.

Laughing through my tears, I nod.

“Yes,” I whisper. “Yes. I’d love to.”

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