Total pages in book: 91
Estimated words: 83990 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 420(@200wpm)___ 336(@250wpm)___ 280(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 83990 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 420(@200wpm)___ 336(@250wpm)___ 280(@300wpm)
“Brian,” I say, and the tears start rolling down my face. I take off my glasses and lean forward to take off his also. I need to see his eyes, his blue eyes that I want to look into for the rest of my life.
“You see, this woman is so beautiful she takes my breath away every single time she walks in the room.” He blinks away his own tears, and my hands cover my mouth. “This woman drives me crazy, and she also makes my heart beat a million times faster than if I ran a marathon. I’ve loved her longer than even I knew. I love her smile, I love her smirk, I love her shyness, I love her laugh, I love her playfulness, but most of all, I love her heart. I love her with everything that I have, I love her with the last dying breath that I’ll take. I’ll love her when she gets mad at me, I’ll love her when she argues with me, I’ll love her when she carries our children, but most of all, I’ll love her every second of every day.” He holds out the ring now. “Kellie, I don’t know what the future holds, and I don’t know much about anything, but I know one thing, and that is that I want it with you by my side.” He smiles now. “Will you be my wife and my partner?”
I nod my head. “Yes,” I whisper, and he grabs my hand and slips the ring on my finger. I look down and see that it’s perfect. A pink square diamond with white teardrop diamonds on the sides. It fits me perfectly. I lean down, putting my hands on his face, and I kiss him. “Let’s go,” I say, pulling him up and turning toward the house.
“Why?” he asks me.
“Because I want you to make love to me,” I tell him, “for a long, long time, and I want to do it looking at my ring, and I want us to be totally naked.”
“Well, then let’s go, fiancée,” he tells me, and we run into the house. I leave my top at the door, the bottoms ripped into pieces—those strings really never stood a chance—and when he finally slips inside me, the sun comes in and shines right on my ring.
One month later, I’ve just come in from watching the sun come up. It’s something that I get to do again now that everything is calm. Every morning, he wakes me softly, and we lie on the couch outside with me in his arms as we take on the day.
We are both sitting in the newly renovated and modern Montana house, and a new chyron appears at the bottom of the screen.
“Oil tycoon billionaire’s son to marry Hollywood’s Princess.”
Epilogue One
Kellie
Eighteen months later
“I need to get into the dress.” I look over at Cori, who is wearing her champagne silk maid of honor dress. “We are four minutes late, and I am not going to be late today.”
When we came back to reality, I met his parents, his amazing parents who welcomed me into their family without a second thought. He chose me, and that was good enough for them. They might be billionaires, but they never flaunted it or made it show. I mean, their house was still fifty million dollars, but to them, it was all material that could be replaced.
When I walked into the courtroom to testify at Tommy’s trial, I was holding my fiancé’s hand, and his father walked beside me to show that you don’t fuck with his family as he said. My future mother-in-law was already sitting in the front row waiting for us. She held my hand the whole time, and when Tommy got up and was sentenced to life without parole, my heart broke a little for the man he was. I couldn’t forget that without him, I wouldn’t have met Brian, but that is where it ended. Everything else that I had for him was hatred.
“We are going to get you there on time,” Jessica says from the doorway, coming in. She is in her own champagne-colored gown, this one altered to show her rounding belly. “Sorry I had to go eat.” She rubs her little belly, and I look at her, smiling, putting my hands on my own belly. We haven’t told anyone yet. It is still very, very early, and I want to keep this our secret for as long as I can.
“Your almost mother-in-law is on her way in,” Cori says. I look at the door, and Brian’s mother comes in. She is so beautiful, it’s no wonder her sons are drop-dead gorgeous. She is poised and oozes elegance and class. Another thing that happened is she took over the wedding planning when I told her I had no idea what I wanted. Well, her eyes lit up as though I’d told her that Santa was on his way, and low and behold, our wedding came out with her touch. She always sent me options, but as long as he is at the altar waiting for me, I didn’t care. Now here I am standing in a room with a wedding dress I’ve never even tried on because it was specially made for me.