Blindsided (Harris Brothers World, #2)

by Amy Daws

“I’m sorry for how I told you I loved you at my parents’ house. You were right, I was a mess that day, but I’m not anymore. I’m seeing everything clearly now, Cookie. I think I’ve loved you since the moment I met you in that damn boutique when you spoiled Shameless for me. You blindsided me, Freya. You blindsided me with everything I never knew I wanted.” He leans in and presses a hard, chaste kiss to my lips, his breath coming heavy and fast as he pulls back and adds, “I want to spend the rest of my life with you because you’re my wee treasure, and despite how crazy mad you make me and how much we bicker, there’s no one else I’d want to fight with in life.” He hesitates and gets a serious look on his face before adding. “I wasn’t going to do this here, but you’ve given me no other choice.” He drops down on one knee. He’s dropping down on one bleddy knee! He reaches into his pocket. He’s reaching into his bleddy pocket! A blue velvet box appears in his hand. Like he magicked it into existence just by sheer will. He cracks open the box, and there sits a ring. A giant monstrosity of a thing that you would see dangling for dear life on one of those lanky supermodels with bones for fingers. It’s the kind of ring that’s so enormous it probably tips those tiny model’s weight over from ninety-nine pounds to one hundred and two.