Total pages in book: 93
Estimated words: 86432 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 432(@200wpm)___ 346(@250wpm)___ 288(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 86432 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 432(@200wpm)___ 346(@250wpm)___ 288(@300wpm)
Who had looked at me more accurately than anyone else ever had and turned that accuracy into a structure I had somehow come to live inside, and come to feel so safe and cared for there.
He went on, his voice low and exact. “I want you in my home, in my life, and at my side permanently. I want to make you my wife. Marry me, Alexandra.”
I think I made a sound before I managed an answer. My whole body had gone hot and cold at once. I was still naked on his lap. His release was still inside me. The bill was still being voted on, on the screen. Nothing about the moment seemed sane, proper, or remotely like any proposal I might once have imagined.
And yet the answer was already there. It had arrived before the shock had begun to dissipate.
“Yes,” I whispered.
The End