Page 132 of Kings & Carnage
Neo looked at him. "I'm sorry I didn't tell you and Drago. I wanted to ask Willa and I wanted you both to be here. I’m not trying to take anything from you. I love the way things are and I want them to stay that way. I just… I want to do this.”
"I'm not mad you didn't tell me," Rock said, reaching into the pocket of his hoodie. He removed a white velvet box. "I'm just mad you beat me to the punch.”
He opened the box to reveal a princess-cut diamond set in rose gold.
I covered my face with my hands. Because really?
What's a girl to do?
"I hope that's not a no," Rock said. “Because there's a lot I could say about how much I love you and how much you mean to me, but really, I just want you to let me take care of you forever.”
"I can't believe this," I said.
Oscar shifted uncomfortably on the bed.
Neo glared at him. "Get it fucking over with.”
Oscar shrugged and pulled a red velvet box from the pocket of his jeans. "Fuck. I hadn't even decided what I wanted to say.”
An emerald ring lay inside the box. It looked vintage, and I touched my finger to its surface, marveling at its depth.
“I chose this one because it made me think of your eyes, the way I feel like I found my soul there,” he said. “That’s a lot of pressure, I know, and I don't want to lay that on you, tiger. I just don't know if I can go the rest of my life without looking into your eyes and seeing my real self there. And your real self too.”
I touched their faces one by one, marveling that they could be so dear to me when I’d started out hating them. "I love you. All of you. But just so I'm clear, is this a triple proposal?”
"I sure as fuck didn't plan it that way," Neo grumbled. "But that’s what it looks like.”
I drew in a breath. "How would it work?”
I asked because I wanted it to work. Because each one of them held an equal portion of my heart and soul.
"It works however you want it to work," Rock said.
"It works howeverwewant to work," Neo said.
Oscar grinned. "Just say yes, tiger.”
I looked from Rock, who took care of me like no one else, to Oscar, who saw every part of me.
And Neo. My twin flame.
Six months ago, I’d stepped into the unknown, and you know what?
It hadn’t turned out half bad.
So I looked at the three guys who’d become my world, who’d reminded me who I was and shown me who they were too, and I said the only thing a girl could say under those circumstances.
“Yes.”
