Wealthy Playboy (Cocky Suits Chicago Book 7)
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Lipsy nods. “Yeah, Meadow. You gotta say yes after this shit. Dude went full Officer and a Gentleman on you.”
I laugh.
Cole says, “Just give in to the dark side, Meadow.”
Wells appears on the screen like he yanked the phone away from them, glares in their direction, then smiles into the camera. “I don’t have much time, you’re in the bathroom right now. But, Meadow Mayes, will you marry me?”
The screen cuts to the next day. Wells is outside in the backyard of his giant mansion. He’s smoking a cigar with Dad. “Sorry about the smoke, it’s the only way your father and I could get away so I could ask you something. You probably don’t know what it is, so you’ll just have to wait.”
Dad appears on the camera. “Meadow, I never thought the day would come when a man would ask me for permission to propose to you. I definitely never thought I would have the opportunity or had earned the right to accept. But Wells wanted to honor the tradition before he even knew if you’d take him back, and I have to say, while whatever happens beyond this is one hundred percent your choice, I can’t think of a better man for a son-in-law. So, I told him he has my blessing.”
Wells appears. “Meadow Mayes, will you marry me?”
It keeps going on and on, sometimes Wells is alone, hiding in the house at night, whispering into the camera. Once he’s in the middle of handing Dominic and Mary keys to one of his yachts. He’s with friends. One is in the middle of Manhattan for a business trip he had to take to Wall Street. All our closest friends, family, clients, they all urge me to accept. Some are sweet, some are hilarious. And every time, at the end of the clip, he always says, “Meadow Mayes, will you marry me?”
As the dates get closer to today’s, my stomach knots up, but I can’t look away. I don’t want to miss a single detail, and I’ll probably watch this video a thousand times throughout the rest of my life, but this is the only occasion where I will watch it for the first time. I can’t believe this is real life right now, and once again, he’s reduced me to tears, but the best kind. I feel like I could float into the sky, but my eyes stay locked on the screen. Finally, today’s date appears on the screen, and Wells is on one knee in the camera, holding up the box with the ring on display, and he looks right at me and says, “Turn around.”
When I turn around, he’s right in front of me, the same way he was on the camera. It was a live shot of him. My eyes dart over to where Dex has a video camera trained on us so we’re broadcast over the media system.
I start to tremble all over, while all our friends and family and colleagues surround us, watching intently. Women clutching their chests. Wall Street investors, some of them who don’t seem to be capable of having a soul, crack smiles.
My eyes lock with Wells, and I’ve never seen him look more determined in his life.
And just like that, he says, “Meadow Mayes, will you marry me?”
I nod emphatically, smiling and crying, and say, “Yes. Yes.”
He takes the ring—a gorgeous round-cut diamond solitaire in a platinum setting—and slides it onto my left ring finger. His hands shake so much he almost can’t get it on, but once he does, he jumps up and his lips are pressed to mine. His fingers dig into my waist like he’ll never let go of me as long as he lives.
I don’t know how he does it still, but like always—I feel invincible when he’s near, like nothing can hurt me, like I can do anything.
“I love you.” He says the words against my mouth.
“I love you too. So much.”
We both look at each other and giggle, like we’re just a couple of innocent children, and the world around us doesn’t even exist.
“Did I do okay?”
I nod. “Yeah, you did good.”
“Great.” He turns to Dex. “Kicked your ass.” He then turns to the other Collins brothers, Dominic, and Cole Miller and says to each of them, “Kicked your ass. And your ass.”
I give him a playful smack to the chest while he does it, and his eyes are back on mine.
“You know it’s true.”
I shake my head at him, all of them really, but out the side of my mouth where only he can hear, I say, “Totally did. Yours was the best of all time.”
Wells nods at me with a satisfied smirk. “That’s right.”
We turn to face the crowd, and everyone cheers and goes nuts. People walk up and congratulate us, everyone. Wells looks impatient as we have to say thank you to everyone over and over, and finally, he just scoops me up over his shoulder like he did the first time at my apartment, and carries me right through the middle of them. It appears he’s had enough waiting.
“Sorry, everyone.” His eyes land on mine and heat me up from head to toe. The look of determination, hunger in them is so intense I get butterflies in my stomach. “I made a promise to her before we left.”
Holy. Shit.
His words are front and center in my memory.
“But you’ll be late next month. That’s a fucking promise, Meadow.”
I have a feeling he’s going to put a baby inside me before the week is over. And that’s okay. Because there’s nothing I want more than to start a family with this man. I’ve never been more excited.
I glance up at the clouds and smile. I smile so big, because I know my mother is ecstatic, looking down on us.
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