"My brother owns this hotel. I bet I can get us a good hourly rate on a room."
"Hourly rate?" He buries his face in my hair, his lips brushing over the shell of my ear. "Once I get you out of that dress, it's going to be hours until you leave my arms."
"We'll stay for another thirty minutes and then we can leave," I promise with a pat to his cheek. "I have a surprise for you tonight."
"For me?" He questions roughly. "I'm the most impatient man on earth when it comes to you. Tell me what it is now."
"No." I kiss him hard on the mouth. "You have to wait."
I watch him twist his lips as he thinks about it. "I have a surprise for you too, Brynn. I can give it to you now."
"You say the same thing to me every morning," I deadpan. "It's not a surprise anymore, Smith. I know it's your cock and no, you can't give it to me now."
"It's this." He drops to one knee.
What the hell? He drops to one knee and pulls my great-grandma's ring from his pocket.
I knew he had it. I noticed it missing last week.
"All I want in this life is you." He looks up and into my eyes. "You are my sunshine. You give me hope. You're the most incredible person that has ever walked the face of this earth and I promise you that if you will be my wife, I will treasure you every single day until I die in your arms because there's no way in hell I'll spend one moment without you."
"Smith," I breathe out his name slowly. "Oh my God."
"Marry me on the rooftop at the top of the world, my beautiful Petal. Let me show you every day how much I love you."
I cover my hand with my mouth knowing that I'm about to scream out in pure joy. This day started out in the most amazing way possible and now it's ending with a proposal from the man I love more than life itself.
"Say yes," he urges. "Please say yes."
I pull him up with both hands by the lapel of his jacket. "Let me give you my surprise first."
His smile fades. "Why? I need you to say yes. I'm dying here."
I reach in my clutch and pull out a small white rectangular box. I wrapped a red ribbon around it this morning. My hands were shaking, tears were streaming down my face and as I watched Smith on Rise and Shine on the television in our apartment, I felt my heart burst wide open.
"Open it." I push it at him. "Just open it."
He nods in silence.
It feels like eternity as he slowly unties the ribbon and removes the lid of the box. His hands fumble with the white tissue paper before they still.
"Brynn."
Just my name comes from his lips and then tears stream down his cheeks.
"I don't know what the hell this means but I know what I want it to mean."
I touch the tip of the test stick. "Two lines means yes. Yes, I'll marry you and yes, we're having a baby."
He pulls me to him, cradling the back of my head in his hand. "We are leaving now. I need to make love to my fiancée. I may need to cry too, but they're happy tears, Petal. The happiest tears I've ever cried."
I pull back and look up into the face of the man I've been destined to love since I was seventeen. "We're the luckiest, Smith. You and I are the luckiest."
"Life can't get much better than this." He smiles and those damn dimples weaken my knees.
"It will." I perch on my tiptoes to kiss his mouth. "Every day of this life we're building together will be better than the last. I can't wait to see what the future has in store for us."
CHAPTER ONE
