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The wide band was made of the shimmery, iridescent white mineral

“You’re giving me jewelry after I lost your necklace? Which I still feel horrible about, by the way”

“We’ll find it in the spring, when the snow melts”

Her gaze on the ring, she gnawed her bottom lip a ivewere to happen to this ring… God, it really is beautiful” She inspected it closely Letters were printed on it in thin black script “MLA?”

His velvety lips swept along her temple “My love always”

Jade’s heart skipped a beat She stared at hiuessed you’re so romantic?”

“Just needed the opportunity to prove it And the right woman”

Her eyes misted “I’ll be extremely careful with this”

When she slipped it onto her ring finger on her right hand, he said, “Correct finger Wrong hand”

Her breath caught

“It goes here,” he told her as he reazed deep into her eyes and whispered, “I love you And I want you to be my queen”

Chapter Twenty

“You what?”

Davian watched as Jade’s blue irises lit with shock, then darkened with doubt She tossed off the covers and got out of bed Scooping up his discarded shirt, she dragged it on, though it dwarfed her, looking htshirt that nearly reached her knees

He rolled onto his back and stacked his hands behind his head on a pile of pillows She paced in front of the fireplace and he didn’t say a word He’d stunned her, of course But he knehat he wanted and had no desire to hold back froreed he could never place a ring on her finger