The Guy on the Right (The Underdogs 1)
I’m sure I’ll throw in a few fire-breathing dragons for drama, maybe a curse of some sort, and of course, Dave in the white Taurus, but it will be the best damn story ever.
My prince plays for me as the last of the keys echo throughout our small living room before he gathers the open box off the piano and kneels before me.
“Jesus, Houseman,” I blubber, my nose running as I try to clear my face. It’s a lost cause. “You keep upping your game.”
“Hope so.” He gently takes my hand and sets the ring around the pad of my finger.
“I thought of a thousand ways to ask you to marry me, but…”
“It’s perfect. It’s us.”
He nods, his eyes shining with love as he looks up at me earnestly.
“I mean it, and I’ll mean it every day. I swear to you. Without setting a foot outside our front door, I’m certain if I search this Earth, I’ll never find anyone else I would want to spend my life with. Will you marry me, Laney?”
“Yes!”
His smile is blinding as he wraps around me, and I tug at his thick hair. He kisses me thoroughly before I pull away, admiring the ring on my finger briefly.
“Oh God, the decisions I’m going to have to make…”
“Don’t you dare start,” he interru
pts.
“I’m just sayin’.”
“Laney…”
“Okay, I’ll sleep on it.”
“Not quite what I was hoping for tonight,” he says, dragging me through our living room cutting off the lights as we go.
“Oh, don’t worry. You’re going to get it, so good,” I declare at the foot of the stairs. “And you’ll be gettin’ your graduation present early tonight too. I just need ten minutes to set up and find the batteries I bought.”
“And I’m now terrified.”
“First, I need to call Momma! And Devin. I bet this news will break her water!”
“They know.”
“Oh,” I say as he leads me up the stairs. “Well, damn.”
“They went ring shopping with me. And it’s two a.m.”
“Right, that’s awesome. Y’all did it together. And naturally, I wasn’t in on it.”
“That would defeat the purpose,” Theo says, glancing back at me with a smirk.
I grunt in agreement while following him step for step. “Theo?”
He pulls me to him at the landing, wrapping me up tightly in his arms and looking down at me with amused eyes.
“Yes?”
“You know I love you, right?”
“Shhhh,” he presses a slow seductive kiss to my lips, “QT, baby.”