I tried to point out that the protector in the story wasn’t charming, and he simply snorted and said, “It’s fiction, fudge it a little.”
But right now I’m just busy making a home with him. Right at this moment I’m reading the first few chapters of the new book he’s working on. He finished up the last one last week. He releases everything through a publishing company Rafe owns, and it works well for everyone.
I’m proofing a few paragraphs when the door to his office opens and he comes in, crunching a cookie and holding a hand behind his back. I grin at the cookie. Hawes wasn’t wrong when he said that the way to Lindon’s heart was through his stomach. Well, there is one other way, slightly lower down.
I smirk.
“Wipe that smirk off your face, I have a surprise for you,” he says, walking forward with his hand still behind his back.
“Hm,” I say. “Honey, at this point, I doubt anything you do could surprise me.”
“Hm,” he replies, raising an eyebrow. “A challenge?”
I snort and put out a hand. “What is it?”
“I don’t know,” he says, shaking his head. “I’m not sure I’m going to give it to you, now that you’ve insulted me by calling me boring.”
“You aren’t boring. You’ve just shocked the heck out of me so much that I now just admit I never know what to expect. Thus I’m not shocked by whatever happens.”
“You make weird sense, you know that?” he says, handing me what he was holding. It’s a book. Hardback.
“Is this…”
“Yup, first copy. Hardback. A proof.”
“Eek!” I squeal, opening it excitedly and flipping to the first page of the first chapter.
“What do you think?” he asks, a tinge of nervousness in his tone.
“I don’t know,” I snap. “I’m still reading it.”
He scratches his neck and walks to my chair and looks over my shoulder. “Did you see the dedication?” he asks.
“What?” I say, a little annoyed at having to pull myself out of the book since I was getting immediately engrossed in it. Even though I beta-ed it, there’s something about seeing it in print that makes it feel new and special.
“The dedication?” he repeats, a blush moving up his neck.
My heart skips a beat. “Oh, Lindon. You shouldn’t have.”
“Not the most romantic gift, but…I’m an author, so…”
I squeal in excitement and turn back to the dedication. When I see it, I feel blood rush into my face. And happiness rush all through me.
I was wrong.
He still can surprise me.
To Misty, whom I choose to be fated too. Forever isn’t long enough with you, sweetheart.
Crap. I think my heart just melted. I look up at him with bleary eyes and he throws his arms around me.
“I surprised you, right?” he asks.
I nod, still quiet.
“Wow, I overwhelmed you, didn’t I?” he asks, sitting in a chair next to me and giving me room to breathe.
“A little bit,” I admit, thumping my chest and setting the book aside. “It’s wonderful, Lindon. Who knew you could be such a sap?”
“I guess I’m only going to dig myself in deeper if I give you this, then. But I can’t hold off any longer.”
My heart stutters as he reaches into the desk and pulls out a small, velvet, navy blue box and hands it to me.
“I had it custom made,” he said. “They just finished this week. I was waiting for the book to give it to you.”
I gasp when I open the box. It’s a beautiful ring, sparkling back at me. A simple cathedral solitaire with a large, cushion cut diamond shining and winking in the light. I smile at him. “I love it.”
“Look at it from the side. Look at the gallery.”
“The gallery?”
“The side of the ring that is holding the stone up.”
I turn the ring so that it’s a perfect circle and I can see the stone from the side. I inhale sharply when I see that just beneath the prong is a little curved V made out of gold. It looks like a book opening up. “Is it a book?” I ask.
He nods, taking it from me and sliding it onto my hand as he gets on one knee. “Do you like it?” he asks. “I wanted it to have that hidden under the side, where just we can see it. Because no one else in the world will ever know how much you helped me rewrite my story. You helped me open the pages of a heart that was long closed. And now you’re writing a life with me.”
“Aw,” I say, looking down at the ring. “Sappy man.”
“Yup,” he says. “But what did you expect, marrying someone who wrote your favorite romance novel?”
I laugh at that. “You can get off your knees now,” I say.
“Is that a yes?” He cocks an eyebrow at me and I swat his shoulder.
“Of course, now get up here and kiss me,” I demand, standing and pulling him up with me.
He rises to full height and leans down to kiss me. Deeply, fully, heating my body from head to toe and filling me with want for him. I pull back, breathing heavily.
“Writing our story, huh?” I say in a breathless voice.
“Yup,” he says, grinning down at me with that irresistible dimple flashing in one cheek.
I lean up on my toes and put my lips to his ear. “Then I think it’s time for a love scene,” I say softly, brushing against his skin. I feel him shudder and then laugh.
“As your co-author, I approve,” he says. Then he picks me up and carries me to the bed.
And gives me the next part of our story. With him, each chapter is better than the last.
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