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Who would have done something to make her hands shake and voice sound like she’s been screaming.
And fuck, you make love look like an adventure and not a boring destination. I love you both. I wish you timeless energy to spend together, endless time to grow together, and an ever-growing roster of delicious, fun, sweet, and kind moments for as long as you both shall live!”
“I want my family set. I need you to be okay.” He swallows whatever else he was going to say and instead clears his throat.
“Okay,” I breathe out. “What am I saying yes to?” He glances down at my mouth again, before his eyes move back to mine, and releases a small hum, like I’ve pleased him. “Marrying me.”
I pop out the deep red wax from inside it and hold up the round metal ring. “I’ll get you something you want, but for now—” “Ace,” she cuts me off, her voice turning quiet as she calls me out. “You realize, this is very romantic of you.” She slides it onto her ring finger, and I hide the fact that I like seeing it there.
“You cannot possibly have a bathroom like this and expect me to contribute to society.” Undoing the top button of her shorts, she keeps her eyes on mine.
“What’s ‘girl dinner’?’” She gives me a leveling glare, like somehow, I’ve royally fucked up. So
“My son used to leave one of those on the boys’ nightstands every night. Told me he wanted to make sure they always had something sweet to wake up to.” Griz smiles, looking down at the counter, lost in the memory for a moment. Then he taps his knuckles on the surface and says, “Be gentle with him.”
A perk of officially being your granddaughter-in-law,” I whisper. His eyes look glassy, but in typical Griz fashion, he makes the emotion disappear with a simple tilt of his mustache. “I like the sound of that—not just the innuendo of keeping this between us either. I mean the part about you being something I’ve felt in my heart for a long-ass time now.”
“I really love how Hadley Foxx sounds.” I try not to react to how much hearing it hits me square in the chest.
“You’re the most delicious thing I’ve ever seen, sugar.” Ace’s voice vibrates along my neck before he presses his lips against my skin. I knew he’d find me.
“Now, be a good little wife and go get our bourbon.” This fucker. “Good little wife?”
It’s a small black velvet drawstring pouch that holds a ring that I never expected to have made, never mind give.
Preuve d’amour. Proof of love.
“It’s just a little bit of sugar. It’s a nice distraction when I get anxious,” I told him, just as Laney and Grant came hustling back from wherever they snuck off.
“I think hearing you tell me you love me was one of the best moments of my life.”
He showed me how much he didn’t love me for much longer than showing me he did. I don’t want to be sad about him being gone now.” “You mourn however you need to, but don’t for one second feel bad about it.
And behind her stands a teary-eyed, and very much alive, Shelby Calloway.
The Foxx Den is an adults-only club.
Inside the box are a half dozen flower vibrators and, from what I can count, three different-sized dildos arranged in a way that they truly look like the best kind of floral arrangement anyone has ever given.
“And aside from moral support, I was hoping to fit in a quickie before I need to open.”
“Cheapest bottle we used to sell. But there aren’t any more in circulation. It was the last batch of my father’s specialty reserve.”
flipping through a stuffed drawer of just about every flavor of Pop Rocks. “These all for me?” I move closer and pluck a pack out and tear it open. “Someone told me once that these sweet things make you feel less anxious. Figured it couldn’t hurt to stock up.”
She is that for me and maybe always has been proof of love.
It’s simply proof that, regardless of any secret or lie that might have been tied to a woman, when a Foxx falls, they do it as bold and strong as our bourbon.
