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Dante opened the back door for her and she slid inside She’d never ridden in a car with a driver before Not even a taxi She always drove her own seen-better-days car

“It will be nice not being the one fighting traffic for a change,” she said when Dante got in on the other side and settled into the seat beside her

“M his attention to checking his email

And just like that, the hot guy wasn’t looking at her anymore Typical

She let her gaze wander to her left hand, to her still-bare ring finger “Oh…didn’t you…you were going to give ht, weren’t you?”

He set his phone down “Yes,” he said “I don’t knohy you’re intent on spoiling the surprise”

“Uh…because it’s not a surprise”

“Perhaps I had so planned”

She didn’t think he was serious But with Dante it was hard to tell Still, she couldn’t help but wonder what it would be like, to have aand ask her to be his wife To look at her with intensity in those dark eyes and…

“So, ring?” She held out her hand and tried to shut out the little fantasy that was playing in the back of her mind

Forget a dream proposal She should aim for a kiss that wasn’t a disaster first

Her reached into the inner pocket of his suit jacket and produced a velvet box “Bea pear-shaped emerald surrounded by diamonds

“It’s…” Hard not to be co you a beautiful ring “How did you know I liked green?”

“Your eye shadow,” he said

She looked up, as if she could see it “Oh”

“And I thought the color and style would suit you Sedate doesn’t see”

“Uh…no Not so much”