Just ask her.
Tell her you love her.
She was sitting on the edge of the bed, wearing a crop top, and a long pair of pajama bottoms. The cold nights had already started rolling in.
“You’re okay?” she asked.
“Yeah, I’m fine.” He made his way toward her, and stopped. This was it. This was his one chance to propose to the woman he loved. Getting down on one knee, he stared into her eyes. Grey eyes that he had loved for years. Elena was the only woman who had ever consumed his thoughts and made him yearn for a future with her and her alone.
“Cole, is everything all right?” she asked, reaching out to him.
He caught her hand and held it tight. “Yes, everything is fine, Elena. There’s something I want to ask you, and I don’t want to wait another moment. So much time has been wasted between us.”
She frowned. “What…”
His holding up the ring silenced her words. Neither of them spoke as he waited for her to see it.
There was shock in her eyes, of that he had no doubt.
Her hand went to her chest. “Cole, that’s a ring.”
“I know.”
“Is that the kind of ring I’m thinking it is?” she asked.
“It is. If you’re thinking it’s an engagement ring.” He released a breath.
“Are you sure? I understand if you’re not, and if you’re doing this to make some kind of point.”
“The only point I’m making, baby, is that I love you more than anything else in this world.”
Tears filled her eyes, and he couldn’t believe how nervous he actually was. This had never happened to him before.
“I know this seems out of the blue, but it’s not. I have loved you since I was a boy of eight years old. That first day where I helped you up, it has always been you, I’ve just not seen it. I love you so completely, Elena. I want to be your husband, and you my wife. I want us to have a family, and be together forever. No backing away. Just you and me.”
She didn’t say anything, and tears spilled over her cheeks.
“The guys at school called me a chubby chaser, and I hated that name, but I loved you then. I love you now. You’re it for me.” He was running out of words, and if she didn’t say anything very soon, he was going to struggle to keep up speaking. Words were not his strong suit, and it was abundantly clear right now.
He was the kind of guy who did everything with actions.
“Say something,” he said, begging.
“You love me?”
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“Out of everything I’ve just said, you have any doubt.”
“You’ve never said it to me before.”
“Neither have you, Elena.” He stroked her cheek.
“I love you, Cole. I love you so much that it scares me.” She dropped her hands from her face, and threw herself at him, wrapping her arms around his neck. “I don’t know how you can doubt how I feel. I know I’m crazy all the time, and I’m so insecure, but I’m working on it. I love you, Cole.”
He held her tightly, and sent a prayer that this was her saying yes. Breathing in her scent, he held her tightly to him.
“Is that a yes?”
She pulled away, and even as tears spilled down her cheeks, she was smiling. “Yes. I want to marry you. Yes, I want to love you for the rest of our lives.”
He took the ring, and waited as she held her hand out for him to slide the ring onto her finger.
Suddenly she fisted her hand. “What if it doesn’t fit?”
“It will fit.”
“What if it doesn’t? If it doesn’t, it’s bad luck. It means we’re not supposed to get married.”
Cole didn’t have any doubts at all. “This will fit, Elena. Trust me.”
She took a deep breath, rolled her eyes, and held her hand out. “You’re right. I’m being stupid. It’s just a silly superstition.”
He waited until he was sure she was calm, and then he slid the ring on her finger, and she gasped.
“It fits.”
“I knew it would,” he said. “You’re always meant to be mine, Elena.”
Cole captured her face and slammed his lips down on hers, silencing any protest from her. She melted against him, and he knew that she loved him, just knew it deep into his core.
Pushing her back against the bed, he tugged down her pajama bottoms, and then pulled his shorts down. His cock sprang free with the tip already slick. Finding her entrance, he slammed to the hilt within her.
Easing the strap of her shirt down until her tits fell free, he sucked one nipple into his mouth as he teased the other. She was achingly beautiful, and all his. He was never letting her go, never again.