Lover (Court University 4)

He frowned. “It was supposed to be a combined proposal tonight,” he gritted, shooting Knight a look. But then, he snarled at Ramses. “Leave it to Mallick to show us up.”

Ramses laughed, folding his hand on my hip. He set his chin on top of my head. “Don’t let me cramp your style, boys.”

Knight growled, but then faced Greer. “What do you say, dove? Marry me?”

LJ and Jax’s proposals followed, and I could safely say, I hadn’t seen anything like it. These guys hilariously trying to one up each other, yes, but all the love around. I barely knew these people. Really, I didn’t know them well.

But as I watched all their guys put rings on their girls’ fingers, December and Royal and Evie and James hugging close beside us, a feeling surfaced that hadn’t been there even moments before arrival. Like these people were really about to mean something in my life. Like I had a place with them.

Like they were family.

I didn’t know if that’d be true, but as I gripped Ramses’s waist, his hold tight around me, I thought it.

Ramses kissed my temple, staying there. “I love you so much.”

Smiling, I directed my brow to his lips, hugging him close and telling him the same. This man had somehow become my everything in so little time. He’d become mine as well as this little community. Old Brielle would have been scared by that, but new Brielle took chances. She had dreams. She loved and she lived, and she did so with her person, no fear.

There simply wasn’t any room.