This Is Forever (This Is, #4)

by Natasha Madison

“The rule is that you have to ask the father's permission to marry their daughter.” I swallow back the lump in my throat. “But I had someone more important to ask permission of, and that was Dylan.” “Justin,” she says with a tear streaming down her face. “I told him I wanted to marry you. That I wanted to make you mine forever.” I smile. “That I want everyone in the whole world to know that you’re mine. I mean, officially mine.” She steps forward to come to me, but I hold up my hand. “I told him I wanted you to have my name, and he asked me if he can have my name also, and just like that, it made this so much more than just us getting married or you becoming my wife. It means becoming not just your husband but becoming his father. He wants to call me dad.” “I know,” she says. “He’s been dying to ask you for the past four months.” “I said yes,” I say. “I said yes to being his father, and I really hope,” I say now, getting down on one knee in front of her, “that you’ll say yes and marry me. Become my wife.”