Ignited (Most Wanted #3)(77)
Author: J. Kenner

“I’d love to see it. I want to share everything you’re willing to give me.”

“Good,” he said, moving to stretch out on the couch, his back against the armrest. I leaned against him, then sighed as his arms closed around me, trapping me in a way that made me feel safe and loved.

“Are you familiar with the Bridge of Sighs?” he asked.

“It sounds familiar,” I admitted. “But no, not really.”

“It’s an enclosed bridge in Venice. Ancient and beautiful. There is a legend that if lovers kiss under the bridge at sunset, they will be granted eternal love and bliss.”

“I like that legend.”

“Me, too,” he said. “So you might be interested to know that I’m going to take you there at sunset. And when we’re beneath the bridge, I’m going to kiss you, just like the legend says. And then, Catalina Rhodes, I’m going to ask you to marry me.”

“Oh,” I said, my heart skipping in a way that made me more than a little breathless. “In that case I should tell you that I’m going to say yes.” I smiled up at him, warm and safe and content in the circle of his arms. “But right now, I think we really should practice that kiss. Don’t you?”

“I do.” And then the man who would one day be my husband—the man who loved me and challenged me, who teased and adored me—the man who had saved me in so many wonderful ways—pulled me close and kissed me hard.

I clung to him, letting every fear and worry flow out of me, letting the past slide away so that the only things left in my head were that moment and my fantasies of the future.

A future that Cole and I would face together.