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“He has to know I love him,” I said quietly “I tell hioing to leave him What can I do tostupid, he doesn’t feel like I’m headed for the door?”
Jess put her ar hi hiet through to him”
We heard hi downstairs after a few minutes, and I turned toward the sound of his footsteps He appeared in the doorway to the living roo an immaculate black suit and black dress shirt, shoes polished But then he looked at me uncertainly and said, “I’ll be done by dinnertime If, you know, you’d like to have dinner with me”
I pushed up off the couch and crossed the roohtly, as if ere dancing, and planted a deep, wet kiss on hiain He was flushed, wide-eyed, lips parted in surprise as I told hiht for the rest of my life”
“Oh Well, good Ok then” He looked adorably flustered and wonderfully happy
I grinned at hio to work Sooner you finish, the sooner you can come home to me”
He smiled at that, eyes still wide, and nodded “Ok I’ll see you soon” And he headed for the garage
Catherine chuckled at that “He forgot Jess and I were even here”
“And you know you pretty ht?” Jess said
“I did?”
“Yup Dinner together every night for the rest of your life? Sounds like a proposal to me”
“That wasn’t a proposal When I do propose to hi club chair opposite the tomen, “I hope to do a much better job than that”
“Meaning you’re actually considering it?” Catherine asked
“God yes Now that I know he’s not really engaged, that we actually get a future together, of course I plan to et this shit with your father straightened out, so there’s not a dark cloud hanging over us”
Both wo at me, and Catherine said, “I suppose Jess and I will have to flip a coin to decide which of us is Best Man and which is Maid of Honor”
I s ahead of ourselves First we have to get the homicidal maniac out of the picture Then we can focus on our happily ever after” I remembered then that the aforementioned homicidal maniac was in fact Catherine’s father and I stammered, “I mean – shit, sorry, Catherine”
“Dude,” she said, “I said it before and I’ll say it again I knohatthe truth And speaking of Daddy Dearest, I’ to drop by his office today”