Vegas, Baby Volume 3 - Fiona Davenport Page 0,24

pulled a diamond solitaire ring out of the box and slipped it onto my left ring finger. As I gaped down at it in shock, he twisted around again and grabbed his cell phone. When he snapped a picture of the ring on my hand, my head jerked up. “What’re you doing?”

“Sending Knox a quick text,” he mumbled as he typed out a message on his phone.

It seemed a little strange for him to be sending a random text while he was still inside me, but that wasn’t the most pressing issue at the moment.

“Um”—I wiggled my fingers at him—“I think you have something a little more important to do right about now.”

His head lifted, and he flashed me a sexy grin. “What’s that, sweetheart?”

I pointed at the diamond solitaire. “Is this an engagement ring?”

He nodded. “Yup.”

“Aren’t they normally accompanied by an important question?”

His smile turned sly. “Only when you’re in doubt about the outcome, and I’m not. You’re going to be my wife, period.”

“Alrighty then.” I smiled back at him and jerked my chin toward his cell phone. “What’s up with the text to Knox?”

“There was a deadline to some of the help he was giving me with hunting you down”—when I quirked my brow in confusion, he shook his head and winked at me—“and I told him I’d send proof of our engagement by tomorrow night.”

I bit my bottom lip before asking softly, “Is the deadline why you gave me the ring tonight?”

“Fuck no,” he growled, lifting my hand to press a kiss to my finger directly under where the ring lay. “I put this here because I want to spend the rest of my life with you. To see your belly round with my babies and raise them together. Because I love you, Anna.”

My eyes filled with tears as I replied, “I know you didn’t really ask, but the answer is yes anyway. I love you, too, and I want to be your wife more than anything.”

“Thank you for making me the happiest man in the world, sweetheart.” Julian captured my lips for a deep kiss. “Want to go upstairs and celebrate our engagement?”

I scrambled off his lap and held out my hand. “Yes, please.”

And that’s exactly what we did...over and over again until the sun started to rise.

Epilogue

Julian

“Happy anniversary, sweetheart.”

I brought Anna to a stop in front of a secluded candlelit booth, complete with a high hat that held a bottle of Dom Perignon. There was also a tray of sweets, courtesy of Knox’s sister, Ariel, who owned a local bakery.

Anna glanced up at me, her brow furrowed in confusion. “What are you talking about? Our wedding anniversary isn’t for another month.”

I chuckled as I helped her slide into the cozy booth. Then I swept her hair over one shoulder and leaned down to kiss the newly exposed skin. “It’s been one year since I kidnapped you and we had our first kiss,” I whispered in her ear. She shivered when my warm breath blew across her skin.

She turned her head so she could take advantage of my position and brushed her sweet lips over mine. “You’re adorable, you know that?”

“Awww, I agree. He’s completely adorable,” a new voice teased with a snicker.

I stood and glared at Zack, the owner of the restaurant and the hotel it was located in. I’d known Zack Parker and his brother Becket—who owned half of the hotel but chose to work as a blackjack dealer at the Lennox—for a couple of years. When I mentioned to Becket that I was looking for a place to celebrate with my wife, he suggested The Crescent Moon and offered to call Zack and have him set up something special.

“Don’t you have somewhere else to be, Parker?” I groused.

His eyes darted over to a room with large glass windows that was reserved for private parties. A pretty girl with tan skin and long, curly black hair suddenly turned and looked out one of the windows. When she caught Zack’s intense stare, she blushed and whipped back to face the other direction.

When he finally tore his eyes away, he grinned at me and nodded. “As a matter of fact, I do. But I always like to check on my VIPs personally if I can.”

I cracked a begrudging smile, especially after Anna elbowed me in the side and whispered, “Don’t be a Neanderthal.”

“Everything is perfect. Thanks.” We shook hands, and he congratulated us before stalking over to the entrance to the party room.

I turned my attention

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