“Can’t have that, Kim, but what I can give you is tomorrow and every day after that.”
A lump jammed her throat, because she hoped he was asking her for forever. It was all she’d ever wanted. She nodded again. “I would like that very much, and I don’t want to spend another day without you.”
“Kim, would you marry me, be my wife and my friend and the mother to my children?”
A tear slipped down her cheek as she looked at the only man she’d ever loved—the only man she could ever love. “You are the love of my life,” she said. “I knew it the first moment you kissed me, and it can’t disappear, and there could never be anyone else. I was meant for you. Yes, I’ll be your wife.”
He leaned in and angled his head so slowly, watching her with lazy eyes that allowed her to feel what he had planned for the rest of the night. And then he kissed her.
The End
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A blind date goes deadly on a night she’ll never forget!
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Excerpt from ONE NIGHT :
“So no missus here?” she asked, because it would have been just her luck.
The look he gave her answered that question. “Seriously, Kate?”
“Okay, just checking. With my track record, it wouldn’t surprise me if you had some Big Love thing going on with a couple of sister wives.” Now she was being ridiculous, she knew that, and she wondered what it was about Walker that made her say things she’d never say to anyone else.
“Do I look like the type of guy who has women stashed away? Good God, one woman is a handful. Now you think I have a harem.”
“Sorry, my experience with men is somewhat jaded.”
He grunted and allowed his gaze to linger on her breasts before meeting her eyes. “I’ll show you the bathroom upstairs if you want to shower.” He was already on the stairs, going up. If she didn’t follow, she was pretty sure he was going to just leave her there, so she trotted after him, up the stairs, until she was right behind him. He didn’t look back, though. “I’ll get you a T-shirt to sleep in, and you can take my bed.” He was giving orders suddenly, so cold, changing from a man who’d stopped her with one of the most breathtakingly hot kisses she had ever had to a man who was all business, who couldn’t get away from her fast enough. What had she done now?
The stairs squeaked. She figured the house had to be sixty years old, give or take a decade or two. It had dark wood and white walls. Even the floorboards creaked when she walked. The bathroom was dated but surprisingly clean, for a guy.
“There’re extra towels in the cupboard in the bathroom.” He pointed at the door as if giving a tour and kept walking.
She followed on his heels, past one of the two bedrooms upstairs. The first door was open and had boxes on the desk and other junk piled in it.
“And this is my bedroom,” he said. It was small and had a four-poster bed, neatly made, covered in a dark blue quilt, with one pillow. He opened a chest of drawers and pulled out a white shirt. She didn’t miss how neatly folded his shirts were—a far cry from hers. Most things were jammed in her drawers, and she could barely close them.
“Wow, it’s surprisingly clean. I would have
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