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“Do you like it?” he asks

“Uh I don’t know if you should’ve left a fire burning all this time”

“I had somebody prepare it for just before we arrived,” he assures me

“Oh,” I s love it”

“Good,” he growls, grippingme close to him “Because I love you”

I gasp, feeling tears welling in my eyes, and blink them away

“I’ht”

“No?”

He s to the door

“What are you doing?” I giggle

I follow hi into the sky like amadman

“I love Sadie Gold,” he roars, his voice echoing over the icy lake “I love Sadie Gold I fucking love Sadie Gold and she’smine!”

“You’re crazy,” I cry, walking over to hi up into his eyes as ain “And I love you, Saul God, I love you so much I don’t care if it’s only been a little while Because when you know …”

“You know,” he snarls, looping his arainst mine in a carnal frenzy

We moan and our lust rises to the surface as we sink deeper into the kiss,over his shoulders, down his ht flesh

“I love you ,” he breathes, breaking off the kiss so we can gaze at each other, into each other “But I need to ask you so, the most important question of my life”

“What?” I whisper, daring to hope, now, daring to dream

He takes a step back and regardswith the same emotion that punches into me repeatedly

“Sadie, I’ve lived a long ti for the woman that would make me feel what you make me feel, that would make me feel like I had to clai But now that I’ve ly, I’ether and take whatever it has to offer I’m ready to be the father of your children, because I know I’ll love them just as much as I love you

“Oh, God, Sadie, I just love you so goddamn much”

I gasp and bringup atcold, but I feel like I’

He’s my Flame

“Sadie Gold,” he says, reaching into his pocket and taking out a ring box He opens it to reveal a ring that screaed yet subliold band “Will you make me the happiest man in the world? Will you marry me?”