Page 104 of Forced Proximity
“I love you, too, Finnian.”
“Want to know something else crazy?”
She hesitated. “Does it have anything to do with my apartment?”
“Yeah.”
“I noticed today that I got an email that said ‘thanks for being a great tenant.’ And I got my deposit back.” She shook her head, causing a few of her long auburn locks to trail along my hands. “Oh, also, the movers called and said that they’d be here tomorrow with all of my stuff. Asked me when would be a good time. Since I’m working, I had to tell them you would be here whenever they got here. And then I gave them your number.”
I grinned wickedly. “Excellent.”
“Seriously, crazy.” She shook her head.
“That’s not the craziest part,” I said. “You moving in was pretty inevitable.”
She blinked.
“The crazy part is that I was going to ask you to marry me,” I said. “But see, the ring went missing. I had it delivered to the house today.”
I dropped one hand from her face and picked up her left hand. “Seems to be already on your finger.”
She snickered. “I figured I’d save you the trouble and go ahead and put it on. I’ll give it back for now. You can ask me when you’re ready.”
I twisted so that she was underneath me. “Known each other for less than a month. Moved you in. Marrying you when you’re ready. See? Two crazy people, so in love that we are practically fast-forwarding through all of the boring stuff.”
“Let’s do it.”
We did.
But only after I did her.
Twenty-Two
It’s fine. It’s just my face.
—Dru’s secret thoughts
DRU
I was ecstatic.
Ecstatic. Happy. Over the moon.
I was head over heels, tits over ass, all-consuming, never going to let him go, in love with Finnian Reins.
I shook my head as the fourth Truth Teller came in carrying a box containing my things.
I looked at my man—my god, I couldn’t believe that I was saying that—and said, “When the ‘moving company’ called, I didn’t think that it was them.”
He flashed me a grin and went outside to go get another box.
They were all in similar outfits.
Jeans, boots, t-shirts, and some form of plaid shirt.
They all looked like lumberjacks, and I wanted to take a picture of them all and frame it.
For some reason, though, I didn’t think they’d be all gung-ho to pose for one.
