She gasped as he rolled her to her back and came down over her. “You will do no such thing.”
“But I—”
“Shh,” he interrupted. He reached over and opened the drawer beside the bed.
“Is that your naughty drawer? Do you have a wicked stash of sex toys in there?” she joked.
His body reacted and he pinned her with his blue gaze. “God, don’t put that idea in my head or I’ll be maxing out my credit card at Sex-Toys-R-Us.”
She laughed. “Is that even a store?”
He smiled at her and shrugged. Then he pulled out a black velvet box and she gasped, scooting out from under him to lean against the headboard. “Alex?”
His face was serious now. “I’ve gone over and over in my head all the ways I wanted to propose to you.”
She could barely see him through the veil of tears. “You did?”
He nodded. “I thought about flying to New York and popping the question on top of the Empire State Building.”
“Romantic,” she choked.
“Then I considered tying the ring to Roci’s collar.”
“Sweet,” she managed.
“I wanted to make it special but I can’t wait any longer. Olivia Larrson, will you marry me? Be my wife, my lover, my best friend? Spend the rest of your life with me? I will do everything in my power to make you happy.”
Olivia shot forward, using the momentum to knock him on his back. The black box went flying. “Yes! Of course I’ll marry you, Alex. I love you, have loved you since the moment we met when you were tackling me to the ground. You literally took my breath away that night and I haven’t been able to breathe without you since.”
Alex crushed her to him, rolled them over and kissed the ever-loving daylights out of her. He made love to her again, slower this time. When they were both spent from passion, he reached around on the floor until he found the box. He tugged the ring free, held her hand and slid it on.
“It’s perfect,” she murmured.
“Kendall helped me pick it out,” he admitted. “If you don’t like it or want to change the stone—”
She held a finger against his lips to stop him. “I love it, Alex. It’s beautiful and perfect but the only thing I need is you.”
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Notes
I hope you enjoyed the eighth book in the COBRA Securities series. Several characters from previous books made appearances in Vigilante. If you would like to read their stories, you can find them here:
Luke Colton and Lauren Dianetti from The List
Jake Kincaid from Violets are Blue
Dorian and Kendall Demarchis from Trust No One
Dante, Taylor and Kai Costa and Sawyer Oldham from Hide and Seek
Dan Bradley and Kaitlyn Colton from Killer Cuisine
About the Author
Velvet Vaughn is the author of The List, The Fan, Committed, Violets are Blue, Trust No One, Hide and Seek, and Killer Cuisine, the first seven books in the COBRA Securities series, as well as Saving Santa, a COBRA Securities Short Story. In addition, two novellas: A Christmas Miracle and Flying High Christmas are available as stand-alone books or in the anthologies All I Want For Christmas and Yuletide Treasures, respectively. The ninth book in the COBRA Securities series, Face the Music, will be published soon.
Connect With Velvet
Website: www.velvetvaughn.com
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Blog: http://www.velvetvaughn.com/blog.html
Email: [email protected]
From Velvet
Thanks so much for purchasing Vigilante. I hope you enjoyed Olivia and Alex’s story. If you did, I would appreciate you leaving feedback at Amazon.com or Goodreads. Thank you!
So many of you have written and asked for Luke Colton’s story…it’s next! Face the Music, the ninth book in the series, will feature Luke Colton and Layla Brooks.
If you would like to read the story of one of the characters from my books, let me know. You can reach me through the contact page on my website or my Facebook Fanpage. I'd love to hear from you. And be sure to like my Fanpage so you can take part in giveaways.
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