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He lare His face looked unusually harsh, the lines deeper around his thinnedthe usual colour from his normally tanned skin His voice was subdued when he said, ‘Do you want me to ask, Didi?’
‘I love the man you are,’ she said softly ‘I love the way you’ve kicked adversity in the teeth andof your life despite all its obstacles I love your co nature towards others I love that you took me into your home when you didn’t know ht and gave me a chance to shine
‘I love you, Cameron Black, Cameron Boyd—whatever your name is, I love you’ She s in her eyes ‘So yes, I want that very much’
The save her in return was like the sun itself and she basked in the glow as it spread through her ‘Not quite yet,’ he said, placing one foot on the seat beside her, leaning forward so she could smell his fresh soaped skin ‘You exploded into my life like a fireworks display, all noise and colour and energy I’d never met any wo on the big guns and arguing—vociferously—for your fellow evictees Losing your job in the process’
‘Pixie, huh?’
His sertips over her blonde spikes ‘I was absolutely enchanted Still aht the spark that’s been s from a different perspective We come from different worlds, Didi, and I want you to share your world with me the way I want to share s with you, Didi I want nothing less than e, commitment, the works But I’ll compromise if I have to If you’ll have me’
Tapping on the booted foot resting on the seat beside her, she set on with it—ask already,’ she whispered
He crouched in front of her and took her face in his palo on saying it for the rest of ether for ever and a piece of paper telling us so’
‘Yes,’ she breathed ‘Oh, yes’
The kiss he pressed to her lips was the sweetest kiss she’d ever known, tasting of sunshine, tenderness and passion Love The kind that would last a lifeti her ar to show his were returned multifold
Finally, he dreay, pulled a little box out of the inside pocket of his jacket ‘I was hoping you’d say that In fact I was counting on it’ He flipped the lid
‘Ah-h-h…’ A solitaire diamond flanked on either side with two pink teardrop diamonds that ers to her nose to stop it prickling ‘I couldn’t have chosen anything better’
It winked like fire in the sun as he slipped it on her finger
She looked at its sparkle of promise, then up at hi his lips She watched as those lips drew closer once more, her heart filled with love and hope and happiness
Then he was kissing her and her heart sihtness; this hat she’d searched for A man who could accept her as she ho valued her work and would work beside her
And not only did he value her work, he valued her With Cameron she was someone for whoed She belonged with hied with her family
When they finally drew apart and she settled against his side, she asked, ‘What would you have done if my father’s reaction had been different?’
‘I’d have asked you anyway, then figured out a way to get hie and all We complement each other The people I want in round I kind of figured you’d be the sort who’d thumb your nose at anyone who’d snub your art on account of who your husband is’
‘Da I want to know and I never got a chance to ask you on that last night Why did you naallery the Irene Black Memorial Gallery? You never ’
‘Irene Black was randhter, but she gave le lump-sum deposit into my virtually non-existent bank account