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“You’ve been carrying it around this whole time?” “I’ve wanted to marry you this whole time. I guess I was just waiting for the right moment. Please, Bee, let’s get married,” he said again. “I can’t wait any longer.” It took a moment for Beatrice to realize what he was suggesting. “You want to get married today?” He smiled again, a bit shyly. “Why not? Everyone is already here; the palace is decorated. We can still give the guests a royal wedding, even if it’s not the one they came for.”
“That’s—” Beatrice fumbled for the right word. Outrageous, impulsive. “Unprecedented,” she said at last. “So is having a Queen of America. I thought you and I were throwing precedent to the winds, remember?”
“I’m doing this because I want to be married to you. I’ve never cared about the wedding part; I care about the part where I’m your husband. In my mind, this is actually a bonus,” Teddy added, his blue eyes dancing. “I have no desire to plan a wedding all over again. This way Daphne and Jeff did all the heavy lifting, and we can just take over their wedding without any effort.”
“Okay,” she said slowly. If loving someone was a leap of faith, then she was ready to jump. Teddy sucked in a breath. “That’s a yes?” “It’s a yes.”
“I love you, Sam. I have loved you from the moment I saw you on that museum balcony, kicking the iron railing like you were going to destroy it through sheer force of will. I fall more in love with you every day, if that’s even possible.”
“I don’t know what the future holds,” Marshall said gruffly. “All I know is that I don’t want to face it without you.
“I don’t know, our scheming was kind of fun. I don’t regret it,” Nina said wryly.
“The student becomes the master,” Nina agreed. “A master, really? You do think highly of yourself.” “What can I say, I learned from the best. And I didn’t really know how else to get through to you. After all, schemes and subterfuge are sort of your love language.”
When she finally reached Teddy, a smile illuminated his features. “I love you so much,” he whispered. “You look beautiful.”
Whatever she did, she was going to do it on her own merit, without manipulation or scheming. Well…maybe with a little bit of scheming.
“I love you, Nina. I’ve loved you since we were kids chasing each other around the palace. I love you so much that when we did actually date, I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop, because I was afraid that all of it—everything that comes along with dating me—would scare you away. And it did scare you away,” he added mournfully.
That, combined with photos of her shopping at the local Costco (she had her own membership card now), had tipped the scales in her public-relations turnaround.
