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When he reached her side, he leaned down and kissed her on theher hands He brought her knuckles to his lips and brushed a thu her attention to the respectable trio of diaer

"I still can’t believe you went into debt to buy me this," she said

Even so, she had to ad it represented She’d never been into jewelry, but she caught herself gazing at her ringof Michael When people at the office caught her grinning for no apparent reason, they rolled their eyes and muttered under their breaths

"I needed to announce how ‘taken’ you are Also, as of this ot us the venture backing We’re opening three new stores by Christmas"

She mentally ran the numbers, and excite even better than the high-growth trajectory I developed for you"

"We are Your analytics are part of what convinced the venture capitalists, actually"

"I think it was your designs and aggressiveto do with it" He laughed, but the look in his eyes was soft "Having you with h I hope you know that"

"I do" The past few ether, they’d made it work "It’s the same forthe o?"

"They offered ain Principal econometrician Five direct reports in addition to , "I accepted it"

His lips fell open, and in the next moment, he crushed her in a fierce eret it?"

She burrowed closer to him and breathed in his scent "No I’m nervous about it, buther cheeks ached "The pro you in advance I’ you a new car"

When he pulled back, she worried he was upset She couldn’t read the shuttered look on his face as he said, "I can buy , but she understood if he had to earn his oay She didn’t need to spoil him She just wanted to

"But I want the same model as yours," he continued "And I like black"

She tilted her head to the side and drew in a slow breath "Does that mean?"

"It means if you want to buy estive grin, and his eyes danced "If you want to buy htness, and she grabbed his hand so she wouldn’t accidentally float away "It ers the way he always did and squeezed "That’s right It’s economics"

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