Page 75 of Promise Yule Be Mine
“Let’s just agree we’re both perfect then.”
“That’s mighty big of us.” He grinned.
“No one else has to know we’re perfect. It will be our ownperfectlittle secret.”
I offered my hand and we shook on it as if it were a business deal.
“Are you ready to order?” our waiter asked, and we had to stop gazing into each other’s eyes to get some food.
We ended up with a lot of poppadoms, peshwari naan drizzled with honey and coconut shavings to share, keema rice and a lentil dal and a lamb rogan josh. It was all delicious but it tasted even better thanks to the company, which was all kinds of promising for our future together, wasn’t it?
“How about we burn some calories?” I suggested when we came out and dropped the dogs back at the bed and breakfast before heading to the ice rink where we spent the next hour going around in circles holding hands like they did in the movies.
I fully expected having to teach Nova how to skate but it turned out he was as proficient as I was, meaning we could just about skate without falling and breaking our knees, which was more than enough to have a good time.
“I’m sleepy,” he said when we left the rink.
“Skating will do that to you. Let’s go back to the room and have a little nap.”
“Mr. Campbell, I like the way you think,” he said, and pulled me by the jumper to plant a kiss to my lips, making me go weak at the knees.
And that was pretty much exactly how our mini getaway went, with lots of kisses, lots of food, and lots of holiday adventures.
Which was why when we were driving back to Christmas Falls on Monday afternoon, accompanied by Michael Bublé Christmas songs, with Nova’s hand on my leg and his eyes on me while I drove, I knew I wanted this. I wanted this comfortable, warm, cozy feeling for the rest of my life.
I knew what I wanted to do when the week was up. I knew I wanted to marry Nova and hold on to him and this feeling in my heart for as long as I lived and breathed.
I just hoped he felt the same.
I needed to make sure he knew I wanted to marry him for him and not because I didn’t want to waste the money we’d already paid.
I needed him to know that I wanted to marry him because I loved him.
I wanted to marry this supernova of a man who had scorched my very soul from the moment I’d laid eyes on him.
24
NOVA
“So…how is the wedding coming along?” Nikita asked and I stared at him.
He had a very cheeky grin on his face. Did he know about his brother and me? Had he figured it out? Or was he just being a funny guy, considering how many wedding mishaps we’d had up until now?
Kody choked on the mouthful of stew he was chewing and Jenna started patting his back while staring at me as if she expected me to answer. I mean, it would fall on me if I were still planning her wedding, but I wasn’t. I wasn’t planning any wedding. Well, maybe mine if we decided to go ahead with her crazy idea, but so far Kody hadn’t touched on the subject and I was too scared to bring it up.
Besides, it was probably for the best if we didn’t go through with it. I mean who in their right mind married someone after barely a month of knowing them? It’d be sheer insanity. Sheer insanity that I wanted to revel in, but that was neither here or there.
“Uhm…” I turned to Nikita. “It’s going…well?”
It was the best I could manage under the circumstances.
“Are you not sure?” Nikita frowned but that grin was still plastered on his face.
Oh, he wasn’t even my brother and I wanted to smack him on the back of the head. Especially if he knew what he was doing.
“I…I am.” I cleared my throat and straightened up. “Yeah, yes. Everything is going well.”
“If you say so,” he replied and returned to his plate while Kody’s parents stared at their sons in utter befuddlement.
