Page 104 of Bottoms Up

“Yeah. I’d like that. Yes, I’ll marry you, and right here will be theperfectplace.”

We sat on that stone slab with the world falling away beneath us — mountains fading into sky, the river shining like a vein of silver in the dark. I reached for his hand and laced our fingers together.

“Do we have to tell people?” I asked. “Because if Kirsten and Cora turn it into a fucking event, I’m bribing one of the dragon triplets to fly me to Faerie and drop me in an enchanted forest.” Or possibly a centaur orgy.

He laughed, that soft, breathy sound he only makes for me, like I hung the fucking moon, and it made my chest go all stupid and soft.

“We’ll do it our way,” he promised. “No contracts. No witnesses. Just a vampire and a rock star, and the mountain they call home.”

And in that moment — that perfect, moonlit silence — I believed him.

I believed inus.

I leaned into him, he wrapped an arm around me, and I swear the universe tilted ever-so-slightly — like it knew we’d just started our journey into forever. Hand in hand, fuck the fanfare.

We’ll see Silver and Benji’s journey into forever during Benji’s book, tentatively titled Last Light.

Breadcrumbs and clues were left to tell you who the necklace went to. More on that in later books. Something else to look forward to.