My ears must have heard wrong because no one just buys a million dollar company in one day with no damn money. “Two hundred and fifty dollars?” I asked.
“Sheryl, are you all right?”
“Why do you keep asking me that?” I snapped.
Theo rested his big arms on the table and leaned closer to me. “Because I don’t think you’ve been listening to a word I’ve been saying.”
“You’re jobless and you’ll be making two-fifty a year? Is that from unemployment?”
Theo pulled out some papers from his back pocket that were folded up. It was an agreement to change ownership of Heart Security Division to Wicked-Heart Security Division, with Theopolis Thornton as the CEO of the company.
I had to look over the papers several times to see if they were real. Although it was a copy of the official document, if it was a fake, it was a damn good one.
“You bought the company just like that?” I asked.
“I showed Lethal the divorce papers and he pulled out the company papers, just like that. I had paid for it twofold with services and jobs that I’d done for him over the years, but we just never finalized anything until he knew none of the company would be divided in the divorce.” Theo smiled to himself. “I’m a free man and I still get what I want.”
I was really happy for him. Knowing he wasn’t broke was a damn good relief, too.
“I want to apologize for all that shit with Erin and hurting you like that,” Theo went on to say.
“No apology needed,” I replied. “It wasn’t your fault. She was deceiving you.”
“So you think I can set a date for us in a couple of years?” he asked.
I frowned, popping another mushroom in my mouth. “Date for what?”
“To marry you,” Theo said obviously.
The mushroom flew out my mouth and hit him in the shirt, leaving a greasy trail.
“I hope you weren’t turning that in to them today,” I said apologetically.
“I hope that wasn’t a no.”
My ears were not working right at all. “Did you just ask me to marry you?”
Theo went into his front pocket and pulled out a one-carat diamond ring. There were mini-blue sapphires in a half circle at the top of it and mini-topaz at the bottom of the diamond.
“I had it specially made after our cabin trip,” Theo said. Gently picking up my limp hand, he slipped it on my finger. “When Erin gave me the news about the baby, the thought of you not being in my life was the hardest decision I ever had to make. I want to make you the happiest woman and be the only man you want to be happy with.”
I wasn’t hungry anymore – well, at least not for food. “I think my father still has his room at the Athenaeum around the corner.”
“Only if you’ll be my wife, Sheryl,” Theo persisted gently.
“No damn doubt about that,” I said. Then I leaned over to kiss him to seal the deal.
The End
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