Breaking Away (Assassins, #5)(131)

“Now you’re ready? What made you change your mind?”

“You. You’ve changed everything. I want to fall apart because I am going to miss her, but you hold me together. So stop questioning me and answer me. Will you marry me or not?”

He leaned forward, pressing his forehead to hers as their eyes locked together. He cupped her face between his hands, his eyes shining with the love and desire he had for her. She hoped that he saw her love for him and knew that she was where she wanted to be. But then he shook his head before saying, “No.”

“No?” she shrieked, backing away from him, shocked. That was not the answer she expected!

“No, because I want to ask,” he said, putting the car in drive and heading off the campus.

“Seriously?”

“Yes, seriously. I’ve been waiting years to have you say yes to me.”

“So what, you’re gonna make me wait?”

“Yes, because now that I know you want to marry me, I’m going to ask you when you least expect it.”

She shook her head and leaned back in the seat, annoyed. “Fine, I guess I’ll wait, which sucks because I wanted to have sex with my fiancé tonight.”

Suddenly, he whipped the car to the side of the road and put it in park, jerking her back and forth. Holding onto the dashboard, she looked over at him, shocked, and asked, “What the hell?”

He laughed as he reached over, opening the glove box and pulling out a little black box. Leaning towards her, he shot her a grin, his eyes shining with love, before he slowly opened it, revealing a single princess-cut, large diamond. The band had diamonds encrusted in it before wrapping around the large diamond that shined in the afternoon sun.

“You had that in there all this time?”

He smirked and said, “Shhh, I am trying to ask you to marry me.”

A giggle escaped her lips as her eyes filled with tears. “So sorry, please proceed.”

His eyes were glossy as they held hers. Her heart was jackhammering in her chest and despite the fact that she had asked him earlier, this seemed way more real. Reaching out, he cupped her face as he said, “I love you so much, and I want to spend the rest of my life with you, Reese Allen. Marry me.”

“Always so demanding,” she teased as her eyes clouded with tears.

“Yeah, I know, but you like it that way.”

“I do.”

“Good, so what do you say?”

Meeting him in the middle, she moved her lips with his as her heart soared out of her chest. Breaking away from his captivating lips, she smiled against them as she whispered, “I say that this is very unexpected.”

He laughed and God, how she loved the sound. With a wink, he said, “Good, I planned it that way.”

Her eyes closed as he moved his lips with hers. When he parted from her, he shot her a smirk as he said, “Just say yes already.”

She pressed her lips to his and felt nothing but love for this man. All the fear of the unknown was gone. All her walls were demolished by his love, and she knew there was only one thing left to say. The one word he had been waiting to hear her say for the last two years.

The one word that would be the start to her forever.

“Yes.”