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“And…?” she prompted expectantly.
“Oh. Yes. Thea Jane Morgan, will you do me the greatest honor I could ever imagine and become my wife? Please.”
It was that uncertain please at the end of the request that caused a sob to catch in Thea’s throat.
There was also something so very…humbling about having a man like Fergus go down on one knee before proposing.
She didn’t hesitate to answer him. “Yes!” She used their joined hands to pull him back up onto his feet. “Yes, yes, yes.”
He smiled. “That’s a yes, then.”
Thea grinned. “Very much so. And you don’t need to wait or live anywhere other than where you already do.”
His eyes widened. “You’ll live in Paris with me?”
Her smile widened. “I’m sure I can get a teaching job there. Besides, it will be an adventure.”
“The biggest and best adventure of our lives,” Fergus promised before lowering his head so that his lips could claim hers.
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“I have one more request,”Fergus murmured a long time later when the two of them were entwined naked together in what was nowtheirbed. “However many children we decide to have, Nikolai-fucking-Volkov will not be godfather to any of them.”
Thea chuckled, already knowing that was exactly what was going to happen.
She was right. Nikolai and Daisy Volkov became the loving and attentive godparents to all three of Thea and Fergus’s children.