Page 73 of Mine to Love
“Something like that.” He held the ring up where he knew she could see it, but she pushed his arm to the counter.
“I can’t afford anything like this and I’m not sure how you can either.”
“If you would look at the numbers on that paper, you’d see that clearly, we can afford this place.” Once again, he lifted the ring, but this time he’d wait a second before actually shoving it in her face.
Her eyes shifted back and forth as she studied the paper before it slipped from her fingers and a gasp escaped her lips. “Jesus, Miles. That’s a whopper of a bottom line.”
“I know.”
“When you told me you had a little money saved up, that’s not what I expected.”
He chuckled. “When Trixi’s father called me nothing but a grease monkey and a loser and that I’d never be able to take care of a family, I started hoarding money. Part of me did it subconsciously. I’d put it away and forget about it. I don’t need much. But now I do have you and Gabriel to think about and maybe sometime we’ll have kids of our own.”
“Kids of our what now?” She lowered her chin. “How did we go from the fact that you’re kind of a millionaire to us having kids? I haven’t agreed to move in with you. We’re not even married, much less engaged.”
He pushed the ring up to her face. “But we could be. That is if you’ll have the dumber part of dumb.”
“Holy shit.” She plucked the ring from his fingers. “Miles Rutherford Kirby, what have you gone and done?”
“I think that’s obvious,” he whispered. “I love you and I want to spend the rest of my life showing you that I’m good enough.”
“Wow.” She slipped the ring on and wiggled her fingers in front of her face.
“Is that a yes?”
“You know I’m not the only person you have to ask.” She rested her hands on his shoulders.
“Who the fuck do you think helped me pick out that ring?” He arched a brow.
“No way. Gabriel knew and he kept it a secret? From me? His only sister? For how long?”
“Three long fucking weeks.” He brushed his lips over her mouth.
“Oh my God. When we go back to Emmerson’s, they’re all going to be staring at my finger to see if you put a ring on it, aren’t they?”
“Not only that, but the rest of my family will be there with cake. It’s a whole thing.”
She stepped back and poked him in the chest.
“Ouch. What did you do that for?”
“You’re a sneaky devil. And what would have happened if I said no?”
“I was fairly confident you would say yes to marriage, but not so much on the house. I still don’t know what you think about this place.”
“Again, it’s Gabriel?—”
He covered her mouth. “Don’t get mad. But he’s seen it and knows I want to buy it. For us. For our family. Come on, Liberty. What do you say?”
“At least this time the man I picked, his only ulterior motive is to get into my pants.”
“Every chance I get.”
She wrapped her arms around his body. “I say yes to it all, but if you ever hide money from me again, I’ll deck you.”
“You do know that from now on, you’ll have to manage all that because Trinity isn’t going to want to do it anymore now that I’m going to have a wife.” He burst out laughing. “Every time she told me what I was worth, I thought she was fucking with me.”
“She’s not.”
