Bella smiled up at him. “Think we’ll be missed?”
Jason chuckled. “With all these Westmorelands around, I doubt it. I don’t even think your parents will miss us. Now they’re standing over there hanging on to Sheikh Jamal Yasir’s every word.”
“I noticed.”
Jason then took his wife’s hand in his. “Come on. Let’s take a stroll around our land.”
And their land was beautiful, with the valley, the mountains, the blooming flowers and the lakes. Already he could envision a younger slew of Westmorelands that he and Bella would produce who would help take care of their land. They would love it as much as their parents did. Not for the first time he felt as if he was a blessed man, his riches abundant not in money or jewelry but in the woman walking by his side. His Southern Bella, his southern beauty, the woman that was everything to him and then some.
“I was thinking,” he said.
She glanced over at him. “About what?”
He stopped walking and reached out and placed a hand on her stomach. “You, me and our baby.”
She chuckled. “Our babies. Don’t forget there is that possibility.”
He smiled at the thought of that. “Yes, our babies. But mainly about the proposal.”
She nodded. “What about it?”
“I suggest we do another.”
She threw her head back and laughed. “I don’t have any more land or another horse to bargain with.”
“A moot point, Mrs. Westmoreland. This time the stakes will be higher.”
“Mmm, what do you want?”
“Another baby pretty soon after this one.”
She chuckled again. “Don’t you know you never mention having more babies to a pregnant woman? But I’m glad to hear that you want a house filled with children because I do, too. You’ll make a wonderful father.”
“And you a beautiful mother.”
And then he kissed her with all the love in his heart, sealing yet another proposal and knowing the woman he held in his arms would be the love of his life for always.
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