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Realization struck ley," I said "You’d ht "That’s why everyone was gathered in your office It wasn’t a ‘feel better’ celebration It was supposed to have been an engage; instead you were shot Unexpected athering"

I sne"

"I’ne"

I didn’t try to rein in aement party planned Ethan Sullivan, that nearly makes up for your centuries of imperiousness"

"It’s neither the first time nor the last time I’ve been romantic, Sentinel Much like Liam Neeson, I have certainskills"

He even got the pause right; Luc would have been proud

"Color rateful, what, exactly, did you have planned?"

"A proposal on the big screen"

"No!" I whined, dropping -screen sports proposals And it would have been even better now; the new Cubs screen was enorh I was not able to reschedule the screen, I did, in fact, give you Wrigley Field And then there’s this" Ethan Sullivan pulled a sundy box from his pocket

I probably looked like a kid on Christ down at it

Ethan chuckled "I assume from the awestruck expression on your face that you’d like to see what’s inside?"

"I mean, you went to all the trouble, so"

Ethan flicked it open

Nestled on a bed of burgundy satin sat a glorious double-dia The band, so delicate it looked like dia, spiraled around two round dia The phrase eiven Josephine one I knew, because I’d researched it for my dissertation before I was made a vampire

"Da the ring fro onto the fourth finger "Now it’s official"

He drew ood and hard

"And now," he said, pulling back and glancing behind iven randfather Mallory and Catcher Jeff and Fallon Luc and Lindsey Margot and Malik They rushed forith bottles of Veuve Clicquot and glasses, and threw glittering handfuls of silver confetti that danced in the light There was a srass covered with a Cubs cloth and dotted with snacks

A iven me immortality, who’d sacrificed his life to save ed meand on occasion made ley Field