CHAPTER 30
“I’m sorry,” he said when he pulled away after some time.
“There’s nothing to be sorry about.”
He still looked upset about it though. Well, that was understandable given what he had shared.
But his next words shocked her. “Still, I said I wanted ‘happily ever after’ with you and then I do something like this.”
She had to restrain her laugh. He was so cute.
“No,” she said, smiling. “No, happily ever after doesn’t mean every moment is happy.
It’s just a saying. In fact, in marriage vows, husbands and wives agree to love each other through the bad times, through sickness and in health and in everything in between. ”
“Husband and wives?”
“When two people get married, husband is the man and wife is the woman. And ‘wives’ is more than one wife because language is insane sometimes.”
He sort of snickered a laugh and then trailed his hand along her jaw, slow and sensual. “So you’d be my wife?”
She felt the blush. “I guess I would. If we get married.”
She might as well have said ‘if we have a happily ever after’, for he understood it just the same.
“I…” he started before it died off. “Daria, maybe I shouldn’t have, but I listened. That man wanted to be your husband too.”