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He shook his head.
“Just say yes. Whenever we’re both ready, that’s what will happen. I’m too old to play games, to wait for what I want, knowing how quickly it can all disappear. I’m not saying tomorrow, but when you’re ready, I want you to know that’s where this is going.”
My heart skipped a beat as I took in the intensity in his green eyes. In his pupils, I could see my stunned reflection, but it only took me a few moments before I began breathing and my body melted into his.
“I love you, Aidan. I’ll take whatever you give me.”
“Silly woman.” The edges of his lips tipped up into a smile. “I’m going to give you the world.”
And as he kissed me again, one of those romantic kisses that women who read romance novels dreamed about, and my foot kicked up behind me, I knew without a shadow of a doubt that everything he was telling me was absolutely true.
And there was nobody I’d rather have promising me the world than Aidan.
