Page 110 of Green Light

“I thought a lot about how to propose,” Silas said huskily. “We’ve shared so many good times together. If I look back over my life, all my happy memories involve you. Every. Single. One.”

My vision blurred as Silas continued, “It might have taken me a long time to catch up with you, but there’s no doubt in my mind that I’ve loved you for as long as you’ve loved me. These photos…they areus.It’s you and me. Together. How we’ve always been.”

Silas pulled a box from his pocket, and my tears spilt over. His face faltered when he saw them. “Oh shit, don’t cry. I have more of my speech to go yet. If you cry, I’ll cry.”

I made a noise that was half-hiccup and half-laugh. “Sorry. I’ll try and pull it together.”

Yeah, there was no hope of that happening. Not while Silas was making all my dreams come true.

“I told you once you’d know when I was proposing to you,” Silas said, opening the box to reveal a simple platinum band. It was unfussy—just like us. “In all honesty, I was ready to ask you that night. But I wanted to make this special for you. You spent so long waiting for me, Kai. You never thought you’d get the happy ending you deserved. But if you marry me, I promise I’ll spend every day making you smile. I promise to watch trashy TV as much as you want. I promise to drag you around garden centres whenever we aren’t on tour. I promise to always be your best friend.”

He paused, his lips twitching. “And blowjobs. I promise you all the blowjobs you can handle.”

Laughter warred with the tears. “Fuck’s sake, Si.”

“It’s your fault. You’ve made me addicted.”

His face softened. “So, what do you say? Wanna make your mum happy by officially giving me your surname?”

“Yes,” I whispered. I held out my hand for Silas to slip the ring into place. The second it hit my knuckle, I hauled him to his feet and into my arms.

He wrapped his legs around my middle as his mouth met mine.

“I can’t believe you did all this,” I gasped between kisses. “It was perfection. The escape room, the photos. Perfection.”

“Gotta use the benefits of decades of friendship,” Silas said, groaning as I sucked a mark onto his neck.

“There was just one part…”

Silas lifted his head to frown at me. “What?”

“If,” I whispered. “You saidifI marry you. Silas, there isn’t any possibility I would have ever said no. No matter what path we might’ve chosen or where we ended up, there would only ever be one answer to that question.”

I kissed him reverently. Tenderly. “Yes, Silas.Yes.I can’t wait to marry you. I can’t wait to call you my husband. To introduce you as Mr Parker.”

His lower lip trembled. “I love you, Kai.”

“I love you too.” I leaned my forehead on his, just breathing him in. “I loved you before I even understood what love was. My heart was designed for you. To be owned by you. Only ever you.”

I wasn’t the only one crying now. Silas’s cheeks glistened under the fairy lights as we kissed, surrounded by snapshots of our love.

Then he fidgeted in my arms, his hard cock making contact with my stomach.

The mood shifted in an instant.

Suddenly, I couldn’t think of anything other than sinking inside Silas. Inside myfiancé.

“Please tell me there aren’t any cameras in here.”

Silas ran his tongue over his bottom lip, looking up from under hooded eyes. “What do you take me for, an amateur? I even had Rhys and Dylan sweep it to double-check.”

I lowered us to the floor, pushing him back and climbing on top of him. “And the door?”

“I locked it from this side as we came in. No one can get in.”

I rocked my hips against him slowly. After several months of him in my bed, I knew how to drive him wild. “Lube?”

He flashed his dimple at me. “Front left pocket.”

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