Real Men Don't Break Hearts(42)

“I’ll just take a quick look.” And then she’d hustle him into bed quick smart. Entering the store, she stopped short in her tracks. “Oh, what’s happened here! What’s all that soap doing on the floor?”

She darted forward to where the bars of their luxury goat’s milk soap lay scattered. Had someone broken in? Then, as she was still puzzling, she saw that the soap had been laid out to form a sentence: Will you marry me, Ally?

Her heart leaped into her throat as she spun round to meet Nate’s unusually anxious gaze. “Uh, there wasn’t enough soap to spell out: I love you from the bottom of my heart, and I never want to be apart from you.” He hesitated, his eyes intense and questioning. “Well, darling?”

Her entire body was trembling with shocked delight. Too choked to speak, she crouched and used the bars of soap to spell out: Yes!

As she rose to her feet, Nate lifted her into his arms and spun around, his face blazing with the same jubilation soaring through her.