“But I sold this,” she breathed. “How did you…?”
The laughter lines at the edges of Harrison’s eyes crinkled. “You sold it to me,” he said. “Well, through one of Pol’s contacts, at least. He’s going to use it as an excuse to turn up late to work for the next ten years, but that’s worth it, if…”
He trailed off expectantly. Lainie reached forward and grabbed, not the ring, but the hand holding it.
“Of course I do,” she said. “I mean, yes. I do. Of course,” she cried, laughing with joy.
Harrison slipped the ring out of the box and onto her finger, where it fit perfectly. The sight of it filled Lainie’s heart. She had lost the chance at a relationship with her grandmother, but this ring was a connection between the generations. A promise that things would be different for her own children, when she had them.
Harrison covered her small hand with his own, and then pulled her into a kiss that made her heart sing.
“My love,” Harrison murmured against her lips. “My Lainie. My mate. My darling, sweetest, most beautiful…”
His kisses began to drift down her neck, and Lainie giggled. “Do we want to take this inside?” she said. “Into the nest?”
She didn’t know what made her call the house a nest¸ but whatever instinct it was, it was a good one. Harrison’s eyes burned into hers, gold flaring around pupils as black as coals.
“There isn’t any furniture in there yet,” he said, his hands slipping under Lainie’s shirt. “Are you sure you don’t want to go back to the workshop?”
“We can improvise,” Lainie said, waving away his half-hearted argument. “Come on. Let’s make this place our home.”
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