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“Oh, I see” She didn’t But she had to keep fishing His real agenda was buried in these well-delivered lines soiven the debt you’ve claioodness of your heart”

“That debt never existed” His small smile wiped the one from her face “In fact, I owe you Because I didn’t know I had such a bad habit of turning a blind eye to as happening aroundin You were in love with me and I didn’t know You didn’t tellyou away And then when you did tellI should have ad to less I’m a serial idiot”

This couldn’t be real All her drea true Her life was not a fairy tale and he was not the guy he was clai to be

“So you’ve climbed aboard the coe, but I can’t buy that”

“Then you’re going to feel very silly once I do this”

He pulled a sed lid to reveal so to someone whose vision wasn’t instantly blurry with tears

His arm dropped from her waist and he pulled the band froer “That’s the sound of the conductor yelling ‘All aboard’ I love you and I want to marry you”

She went a little lightheaded “You know that if the senator is helping us get the forht?”

Gage just sendas here Mine or yours You know if you marry me, you have to trust me No ale When you have questions, we have to talk about things like rational adults And e spend tiether, it’ll be because we can’t be apart”

Guilt crushed through her chest “Did you know the whole time?”

“No I figured out later that all the strange questions were because you suspected I was involved in the leak froht that was necessary I hadn’t given you any reason to trust ht now”

Finally, it started to sink in He’d taken soul-searching to a whole other plane And soured out how to claiiveness She’d held hith, convinced he would break her heart, when instead he’d offered his up with no strings attached

She shoved back the flood of emotion for a second time Or was it a third? She’d lost count because he’d done exactly what he’d predicted he would—knocked down her barriers against him

“No agenda,” she repeated due? You could hardly say the word the last time this came up”

He took that with surprising grace and nodded “I’ve spent years running frouise of living life to the fullest and experiencing new heights I’ve done it all, except one thing You’refeels better when I’ from that?”

“Because you’re a serial idiot?” she choked out, and he laughed, pulling one from her, as well

That was the benefit of falling in love with a e proposal and he still ed to pull it off

“I am a serial idiot I hope that ed with emotion she’d never heard before “Because it would be du to iet that But if you handaround until you say yes”

It was real The man she loved had just asked her to ht against her pal about us is that we’re equals Guess that means I’m a serial idiot, too, because I never fell out of love with you”

Yes, clearly she’d gonethat in a ined she’d be this happy