by Lara Swann
Those familiar thoughts disappeared a moment later as I noticed the happiness and pride sweeping across Seth’s face, making me happier than I could have ever imagined.
“Well, it looks like you have everything sorted without me then. Maybe I should go away more—”
“Don’t you fucking dare!”
I kissed him before he could finish the sentence, pulling him to me with a hard insistence.
When we finally broke the kiss, he chuckled again, his eyes alight with laughter and…something more.
A smile spread across his face, the same cocky one I’d always hated adoring, but with a lightness behind it that made my heart skip.
“Glad you feel that way, baby.”
And then before I could work out what was happening, he was down on one knee, his large hand flicking open a ring case.
“Because I want to make you mine forever. I love you, Bella. My Belle. I always have, and I’m never going to let you go. Marry me.”
The last was more demand than question, but that only made my heart beat faster as I took in the sparkling diamond-and-emerald ring.
Everything inside me exploded with happiness and desire and want.
I opened my mouth to reply but the only thing that came out was a small scream as I launched myself at him, wrapping around that thick, ripped body as I kissed him all over, again.
“Yes…god, yes…oh damn, yes…”
He was laughing as he kissed me back, his arms around me once again until I finally calmed down - physically, at least - enough for him to slide the ring onto my finger. He closed his hands around it as he looked at me.
“My Bella. Always.”
I nodded and tucked myself back into his body, letting his arms hold me as we kissed for what felt like forever.
THE END
About the Author
Lara Swann writes hot, sexy romance with a touch of humor and a lot of passion. She has a thing for wounded alpha heroes and the fiery women who steal their hearts.
Her relationships are funny, sexy and spicy, and she gets as many thrills in pitting her characters against each other as she does when they eventually come together in an explosion of heat.
When she isn’t living in one of her many fantasy worlds, she attempts to focus on her respectable day job in a large, too-expensive city and dreams of a lake house in the country.