Taking Shots (Assassins, #1)(178)

“I love you so much,” she said against his lips, his heart banged against his chest at the sound of the words he had missed so much, “So much” she added before joining their mouths again. Shea hands moved from her cheeks, down to her back of her legs, lifting her some so he could deepen the kiss more since he was so much taller than her with his skates on.

Elli pulled back, tears streaming down her face from her sparkling green eyes. “I don’t want to be proud any more, Shea. I love you, only you. I’m sorry. So sorry.”

Shea shook his head, “No baby, don’t be sorry. I’m sorry, I should have fought harder.”

“No, Shea, how much harder could you have fought? I was a complete and utter idiot and I’ll own you the rest of my life. I’m so sorry.”

Shea smiled, “It’s in the past baby, let’s start our future.” He took a deep breath in before pulling the chain out from his jersey, pulling it so it broke causing the silver chain that had been his constant companion to fall to the ice.

“Shea?”

When he held up a ring, looking down at her, the tears came faster down her face as what he was doing sank in, but he was ready.

Shea was ready for his forever with Elli.





“Marry me, Elli.”

Elli gasped as her hand came over her mouth, knowing what he was about to do and actually hearing him do it was two different things. As she looked into his eyes, he said, “Don’t ever leave me again. Love only me, for the rest of our lives. Move into our house, make love to me every night, and make babies with me, Elli. Please, because being with you made me a better man, and I could never love anyone the way I love you. So please, marry me.”

“Oh, Shea,” she cried, looking at the beauty of the ring, the pink diamond was sparkling so bright it took her breath away. How did he know that she had dreamed for an untraditional ring especially after the horrid one Justin had given her? But this was not the time to think of Justin. Elli watched as he started to get nervous, which who could blame him. He was asking her to marry him in front of thousands of people during the Stanley Cup Playoffs and all she could do was gape at him.

“But our house was sold,” she said sadly since it was the only thing she could get out, he smiled shaking his head.

“Yeah, to me. Do you think I would let something you love go to someone else?”

Elli’s body tingled as she looked into his beautiful blue eyes, “So you aren’t going anywhere?”

“Not as long as you want me.”

“I want you for forever.”

“Good, so what do you say?”

She thought for a moment, a small grin on her face. “How many babies we makin’?”

“At least three,” he said with a grin, she thought that over for a moment, narrowing her eyes up at him.

“I don’t know, three?” she said just to tease him.

“Damn it, Elli, say you’ll marry me!”

“Oh course! Yes!” Elli said with a giggle as Shea laughed, after letting out the gust of air he was holding. Shea slid the ring down her finger before picking her up kissing her laughing mouth hard. Elli was gonna marry Shea, they were gonna have babies, move into their house, love each other for forever. Her dreams would be her reality.

Elli’s heart felt like it was gonna explode at all the love that was filling her as she looked into Shea’s sparkling eyes. Elli smiled against his lips as they parted, moving her fingers up into his sweaty hair.

“There’s gonna be a fee for that glass,” she whispered against his lips. He smiled, biting her bottom lip before saying, “Best two grand I’ve ever spent.”





Epilogue





“I can’t find anything!” Elli yelled as she moved through her and Shea’s spacious bedroom, tearing into the suitcases that still lay on the floor, three days after they had arrived home from their honeymoon in the St. Luca Islands. She was looking for her grey wool hat and couldn’t find it anywhere. Elli was running crazy late; she wanted to stop by the hospital to see Harper and her new baby, Allison, before heading into the office, since she had a meeting of her own with Shea later that afternoon.

“Baby, what are you looking for?” Shea asked as he came out the shower with a towel wrapped around his waist, his razor in one hand. Elli’s mouth watered at the sight.

“My hat! The wool one,” she said ignoring his sexiness, and throwing clothes over her shoulder as she looked through the suitcases again. If she left that damn hat at the resort in the islands, she would cry. She loved that hat.

“Baby, it’s in the truck.”

Oh, yeah.

When Shea’s arms came around Elli’s waist, she smiled, running her hands over his forearms before turning in his arms, looking up into his eyes. “Are you gonna go see Allison today?” he asked as he nibbled on her neck.

“I am,” Elli said breathlessly before Shea ran his tongue right under her ear, taking her ear lobe into his mouth.

“How much time do you have?” he whispered in her ear while his hands came down over her ass, pressing her into his hard length. The man never quit…not that she would ask him too.

“Mmm, five minutes top.”

Elli was on flat on her back before “minutes” left her lips.