Page 199 of Play of Love
"Newsflash princess, in case you didn't notice I love listening to you play. You can play forever if you want."
I leaned forward and kissed him.
"So, um..." He sighed and smiled. "I have a wild plan brewing in my mind." The wildness flickered within the depths of his eyes.
"How wild?"
"Very."
"Let's hear it." I caressed the firm line of his jaw.
"Okay. So in the spirit of not beating about the bush, my plan is, first of all, to try to get you to stay in Italy for an extra week and take you back to Rome. We can start our adventure from there."
"In the spirit of not beating about the bush I'm totally saying yes, but that's not a wild idea."
He grimaced at my and tweaked my nose playfully. "I'm not finished yet. It's quite a big plan."
"Okay, still listening." I played along.
He gazed deep into my eyes and held my hand at his heart. "I love you, Evie. In the spirit of not beating about the bush, my plan is to make you fall in love with me, and then in the extremely near future I plan to ask you to marry me."
My heart sang with delight, overflowing with love as I looked at him. He couldn't have surprised me more, and I didn't even have to think about what my answer would be.
My smile couldn't have been brighter as I said, "I love you too Gage. So you don't have to try to make me fall in love with you, I already am. I'll definitely be saying yes when you ask me to marry you, in the extremely near future." I laughed.
He brought my hand up to his lips, kissed it and held it to his cheek.
"Thank you, Miss Evie." He beamed, exhaling a long sigh of contentment. "Looks like I just found Mrs. Gage."
"Yes, Mr. Evie you certainly have."
I smiled back at him feeling blissfully happy and fully alive as I met his lips for the sweetest kiss.
