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No deal needed—if she keeps looking at me like this, I’ll do anything she says.
She stops there, but the unspoken words are just as loud. The look in her eyes says I wanted to help, and this is all I have and I see you.
I wonder if I could convince her to She’s the Man herself onto the men’s hockey team so I never have to be on the ice without her.
Instead of waiting for Sadie to acquiesce, I slip my arm under her legs and pick her up in a bridal carry. She squeals lightly but doesn’t complain as I walk slowly back to the gate and all the way into the locker room. “Do what you need to do and then come out to my car. I’ll go wait there.” And without thinking, I drop a kiss to her forehead and pick up my gear bag, turning to leave the room before I can consider how ridiculous that move might have been.
“For the record,” I say, looking out along the lake, across all the life around us. “I am offering.” She’s silent. Smiling and shaking her head, she avoids every ounce of the eye contact I’m directing toward her. But I can’t bring myself to regret it.
“Good night, kotyonok.”
“I think I’m in love with her.” I hear Rhys tell Bennett, but his voice doesn’t lower even a notch. “And she won’t let me in.”
I know she hasn’t looked it up yet. If she knew the translation, she’d probably slap me.
It isn’t until she’s fast asleep, drained but so beautiful, that I whisper, “I’ll never leave you. Happy birthday, Sadie.”
“I don’t know what I’m going to have to do to prove to you and Oliver that I’m not leaving—and honestly, I don’t care what it is, I’ll do it.”
“I’m gonna say something now, Gray. And I need you to hear me. Really hear me, okay?”
I nod.
“I love you,” he says, and he’s smiling—both d...
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“I love you. I love everything about you.
“You don’t need to say anything right now, okay? I can love you enough for the both of us.”
“Do you know what kotyonok means?” She laughs, smiling wider than I’m sure I’ve ever seen. “It means kitten, my love.”
I want to be his Gray forever.
“Marry me,” he says with pink cheeks and a little tremor in his hand. He’s nervous.
“Yes, hotshot,” I say into his skin, like telling a secret. “Forever, yes.”
He shouts, “She said yes!” at the top of his lungs before hoisting me into the air with a yelp. And while Oliver smiles and claps, and Liam howls like a little wolf,
