Page 81 of Her Fantasy Husband

“There is?”

“The offer comes with strings attached. Lots and lots of strings.”

He took a step closer, cupped her cheek with his palm. “Strings don’t scare me anymore. Not when they tie me to you.” He lowered his head and kissed her until the room faded and everything vanished but Josh. She pressed herself against him, breathing him in, filling her senses with him.

This was her biggest fantasy, the one she had hidden even from herself, buried in her subconscious—the one where Josh came and claimed her for the entire world to see. Where he told her…

He drew back slightly. “I love you.” The words whispered against her skin.

She stared up into his blue eyes and saw the love there. “I love you, too.”

“Good. Now there’s one more thing.”

“There is?”

“Alexia Slater. Will you marry me? For real this time.”

“I knew the marriage was a fake,” her grandmother said. “I knew—”

Lexi whirled around. She slapped the envelope into her grandmother’s hand. “Bedtime reading,” she said. “Now go away and don’t spoil this for me.”

“Come on, Granny,” Harry said. “Let’s leave these two love birds alone. I think you’ve lost this particular battle.”

“She’s lost the goddamned war,” Josh growled.

Lexi waited until the others had gone then turned back to him as he reached into his pocket and pulled out a ring.

She held out her hand, and he slid it on her finger. “I will.”

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