Page 110 of Wedlocked

Gasping, I fell backward off him. “I’m sorry.”

“You can make it up to me by saying yes,” he said, flashing a smile.

Shifting around he got back on one knee and held out the box. “I’ll ask again. I’ll ask as many times as I have to. Landry Resch, will you marry me?”

“Yes,” I said, my head nodding so hard I was probably going to have neck pain later.Worthit. “Yes, a thousand times.”

He smiled, relief etched on his face, black eyes glittering as if they, too, had glitter like the sky. Rising from one knee, he sat on the bench and pulled me into his lap. “Don’t you want to see the ring?”

“I’d marry you if you handed me a twist tie.”

“How about a diamond?” he whispered, pushing the box in front of my nose so close I couldn’t ignore it.

I sucked in a breath, and my stomach swooped. “It’s gorgeous,” I whispered, practically breathless. “It almost looks like glass.”

“It’s a quality diamond,” he said, chin on my shoulder. “I made sure.”

“You know I don’t expect something so… extravagant.”

“I know, baby. I fully expected a lecture when I picked this out.”

I spun, looking into his eyes. “You picked this?”

He looked offended. “Who else?”

I giggled.

“Landry.”

“I thought maybe your mom helped.” I mean, the woman knew fashion.

“She recommended the jeweler,” Jason answered. Then almost sardonically, he added, “She also told me when I thought I’d found one big enough to go up a carat.”

Laughing, I turned back to the ring. “Is that why this could probably be seen from Mars?”

“It’s not that flashy,” he muttered.

“What is this, like six carats?”

“Four.”

It was an emerald-cut diamond, according to Jay, four carats. It was so clear it almost looked like glass. Even me, a girl with an untrained eye, could tell how flawless it was. The band was platinum and thin enough to let the diamond take center stage.

It really was too much.

“Do you like it?” he asked, nerves back in his voice.

“Oh, Jay, how could I not?”

“Why haven’t you touched it yet?”

“It’s too beautiful.”

He made a rude sound and grabbed the ring, tossing aside the box.

I dove for it, but he caught my arm gently to tow me back. “Come here, little siren.”

I went, straddling his lap to face him.