Page 96 of Long for Me
“I love you.”
He pulled back and pointed at me. “Don’t move a fucking inch.”
Storming to his office, I watch his pulled-tight frame hurry away until he reappeared. This wasn’t exactly the reaction I’d expected, but I’d learned to trust him. He didn’t do anything without a purpose.
“Tomorrow, we’re meeting with realtors. Putting our places on the market and going to buy a house.”
“What?” I stepped back, pressing a hand to my chest to quell the thundering he ignited. “Bennett... I don’t understand.”
Without pause, he reached me, dropping to a knee in front of me at the same time, a black velvet box appeared in his outstretched palm. “We won’t wait to start a family and kids need room to roam and play. Don’t want to raise them downtown and your house isn’t big enough.”
“Are you?” I flicked my gaze to the box, his eyes, back to the box. Good god, he was on his knees in front of me. “Are you asking me to marry you?”
I laughed nervously.
“You love me?” he asked, impatience tightening the line of his lips.
“Of course I do. Do you,” my brow furrowed. He’d never said it. “Do you love me?”
“Wouldn’t be on my knee, doing this if I didn’t, Rebecca.”
“It’s fast.”
“Say yes.”
God, this man. I laughed again, less nervous, more amused. Typical of him. His arrogance and bossiness game was still as strong as ever. But I’d learned how to play, too. “Tell me you love me, Bennett.”
He rolled his eyes and grinned, stood up and took my hand in his.
To my surprise, I wasn’t trembling. I wasn’t nervous. I wasn’t scared and I didn’t feel like running. He’d taken all of that ugly fear inside me and infused me with his confidence and strength, or perhaps he’d taught me I had it in me all along.
Regardless, tears still swelled in my eyes when he took a ring from the box, tossing the box to the floor. “I love you Rebecca. I’ve loved you from the moment you signed my contract. I knew then, there was no other woman from me. Start a life with me. Start a family with me. Stay with me forever.”
“Wow,” I breathed, a delicious heat burning in my chest. My heart swelled and tears fell down my cheeks. “Now that...that’s a proposal.”
He slid the ring on my finger but I didn’t even look at it. It’d be massive and sparkly and only the best his money could buy. The weight of it told me all I needed to know. I couldn’t take my eyes off Bennett. His love for me shone in them so brightly it was brighter than any diamond I could ever wear.
“Bennett,” I sighed and pressed my hand to his cheek. “I love you.”
“And I’ll love you for the rest of my days. And tonight, when we go to Luminous, I want everyone to know you belong to me so when I strap you to a bed and tease you until you scream so loud the windows vibrate, everyone will want you, and all the men will be filled with despair when they realize they can’t have you.”
He slammed his mouth down on mine, picked me up and settled me on the counter. Then, pushing me backward, he set off to prove that everything he said he’d do at the club later would happen.
And then later, when we were at Luminous, he proved it again, this time in front of a crowd of dozens.
And I never noticed any of them.
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