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CHAPTER ONE
“GET UP, DOOFUS”
Though the words were said with a s to hear He was, after all, on a bent knee, holding up a dia
“I just asked you to marry me, Jess,” he said
“And it was adorable” She ruffled his hair That didn’t bode well, either “The answer is no, obviously What were you thinking? And boy, I’ Did you call for pizza yet?”
Okay Granted, Jessica Dunn wasdifferent They’d been dating for the past eight etting her to thisas, oh, D-Day Still, he hadn’t quite anticipated this
He tried again “Jessica Make me the happiest man on earth and say you’ll be my wife”
“I heard you the first tiuy And I did wonder about all these candles Nice touch, if a little on the fire-hazard side of things”
“And your answer is?”
“You already knowNow come on, Connor Upsy-daisy”
He didn’thihtly raised
Her phone buzzed, and she pulled it out of her pocket, because she always checked her phone, noall the bad guys in the cave,” she said, deadpan
This was nor text updates on whateverIt could be funny At the moment, not so much
“Can we be serious here?” he asked
“I’ry, Con”
“If I feed you, will you say yes?”
“No So up you go Let’s have a nice night, okay? Weren’t we gonna watch Game of Thrones?”
Hail Mary, full of grace, she was really turning him down
He didn’t get up With the hand that was not holding the little black velvet box, he rubbed his hand across his jaw He’d shaved for this and everything The dia him
“Look, Jess,” he said “I’ like you payup with ether for the rest of our lives?”
“You ever hear that expression, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it?”
“Do you seein my hand?”
“Yes You’re hard toyou think you should love ether on and off for so many years—”
“No, it’s genuine love”
“And secondly, you kno things are I can’t marry you I have Davey”
“Well, I have Colleen, and she’s a lot more trouble than your brother”
“Funny” Jessica’s three feet away face was erasing any emotion It was a face he’d seen all too often in the past two decades, as if she was saying, very politely, keep three feet away from me or you’ll lose an arm
His knee was getting sore “I kno things are with your brother, Jess I don’t think you’re supposed to martyr yourself because of it”
“Don’t go there I love my brother He comes first”
CHAPTER ONE
“GET UP, DOOFUS”
Though the words were said with a s to hear He was, after all, on a bent knee, holding up a dia
“I just asked you to marry me, Jess,” he said
“And it was adorable” She ruffled his hair That didn’t bode well, either “The answer is no, obviously What were you thinking? And boy, I’ Did you call for pizza yet?”
Okay Granted, Jessica Dunn wasdifferent They’d been dating for the past eight etting her to thisas, oh, D-Day Still, he hadn’t quite anticipated this
He tried again “Jessica Make me the happiest man on earth and say you’ll be my wife”
“I heard you the first tiuy And I did wonder about all these candles Nice touch, if a little on the fire-hazard side of things”
“And your answer is?”
“You already knowNow come on, Connor Upsy-daisy”
He didn’thihtly raised
Her phone buzzed, and she pulled it out of her pocket, because she always checked her phone, noall the bad guys in the cave,” she said, deadpan
This was nor text updates on whateverIt could be funny At the moment, not so much
“Can we be serious here?” he asked
“I’ry, Con”