Page 235 of Between Secrets and Obsession
I laugh because he’s right. I would’ve been in a sour mood.
“Smart man,” I tell him, grabbing his face and planting my lips on his. “I can’t believe you just proposed!”
“I can’t believe it took me six months to find the courage.”
“Six months!”
“I had to ask your dad,” he says, leaning back. “So I flew out there.”
“What?” I squeal, sitting up on my elbows. “You flew out to Utah and asked my dad for his permission?”
I’m shocked.
Not that Liam would do the right thing, but that I had no idea. He does travel for work a lot, so it was probably easy to deceive me.
“Yep. Had a nice little chat.” Then he coughs. “Intimidating chat if I ever hurt you.”
Laughing, I wrap my arms around him and bring him closer. “I can’t believe how sneaky you were.”
“But apparently not sneaky enough.” Liam playfully rolls his eyes.
“That’s right. Remember that if you ever try hiding a secret from me again,” I tease.
“Next time, I’m blindfolding your ass and handcuffing you so you can’t see, touch, or snoop.”
“That sounds rather hot. We should practice that just in case.”
“Fuck, baby.” He palms my breast and squeezes. “I don’t want us to be late, and we have the next two days all to ourselves, so let’s go and enjoy being newly engaged.”
My eyes widen at the word. “Engaged. Wow. That sounds…so grown.” I laugh and think about the letter I just wrote Tyler. “Dammit, now I need to write Tyler another letter.”
Liam presses a kiss to my nose. “Don’t worry, he already knows.”
“What?” I screech, and Liam stands, pulling me up with him. “So I don’t even get to surprise him?”
“Don’t worry, I told him to act plenty surprised.”
I roll my eyes. “Please tell me my sisters don’t know. Can I at least tell them?”
“You really think I called up Sophie and Lennon and said,Hey girls, I’m proposing to Maddie this weekend, but do me a favor and don’t tell her, okay?” He arches a brow, and I chuckle. “Neither of them can keep a secret to save their damn lives.”
“That’s true. They pretend they can, but they’d be dying to text me all weekend, waiting to hear the news.”
“Exactly.”
“I kinda want to mess with them…” I pause, placing a finger on my lips. “Tell them we got hitched on a whim or something.”
“You’re evil.” He shakes his head, then grabs my hand. “Let’s go before you conjure up more ideas.”
“You’re no fun,” I quip.
“Don’t worry…we’ll be havingplentyof fun this weekend.”
EPILOGUE
LIAM
FIVE YEARS LATER
