“Thanks, but I’m fine where I am. Higher ranks come with more responsibilities, and my mate and I have the future to think about.”
Duke nodded in understanding. “If you ever change your mind, let me know.”
“I will.”
“This never happens at the coffee shop,” Em said.
He stared at her for a long moment and then laughed. “Very true. Let’s dance.”
“Now?” she asked.
He nodded. He took her hand and pulled her to the center of the dance floor, away from the lions who were discussing Demi’s new suitor and trying to talk Hemi out of preemptively killing the male.
The music got loud and full of static, and Diesel winced.
“Sorry,” Titus called.
A slow, romantic song came over the speakers and Diesel gave a thumbs up to the male.
Em snuggled against him, her hands locked at his waist, her head over his heart. “You know I’d do anything to keep you safe?” Diesel said.
“I do. I saw the look in your eyes when Valerie threatened me.”
“She never should have been able to get close to you.”
Diesel turned them in a circle and began to dance, holding Em close.
“You really don’t want to be higher ranked?”
“Not even a little bit. I feel like the number one lion with you, and that’s all I ever wanted.”
“You’re definitely my favorite lion.”
He smiled, his whole being warmed from the inside out by her sweet words. He kissed her and then dropped to one knee, marveling internally at how little his leg ached. That salve was a miracle.
After pulling the box from his pocket, he opened it and held it toward Em, who was staring at him with her mouth open and her eyes wide.
“I had this whole thing planned earlier for the DJ to play your favorite song while I asked you to marry me. But that got interrupted, and even though this didn’t go like I thought it would, the fact is that I want tonight to be the night that I ask you a really important question. I love you, Emberly. You’re the other half of my heart, and I want to spend the rest of my life with you. Will you marry me?”
“Yes!”
He took the ring out of the box and put it on her finger, then rose to his feet and kissed her. He could taste the salt of her tears, and his own eyes stung.
“I love you,” she murmured against his lips.
“I love you, too, sweetheart. I’m going to spend the rest of my life making sure you’re the happiest female on the planet.”
She smiled and tears tracked down her cheeks. “You’re off to a really good start.”
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AnnaRose (Tails Book Four)
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Coming in 2020: AnnaRose (Tails Book Four)
After a disastrous coffee date with the uncle of one of AnnaRose Carmichael's precocious kindergarteners, she thinks she's seen the last of the shifter who said she was his whether she liked it or not. Finding herself on the business end of a stalker who doesn't care that she's gone to the police, Annie's car is disabled one night, and she's chased into the woods. Her only hope is to find someone to help, as remote as that possibility may be.
Lion shifter Mayhem doesn't have mating on his mind when he walks out of Tails one night, but the sweet brunette climbing him like a tree and begging for protection smells like home, and he's not about to let anyone harm his newly-found heart-match. A coyote shifter claiming to be Annie's rightful mate goes toe to toe with Hemi, who won't let some punk who can't take a hint claim his female. Hemi will do anything to protect Annie and keep her safe, even if it means facing a group of coyote shifters who aren't above harming innocents to get what they want. Can Hemi and Annie's relationship survive or will all be lost in the woods of Kedrick?
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