Stolen: Meant To Be (Contemporary Billionaire Romance) by Holly Rayner Read Free Book Online

said.
     
    “I can’t carry a tune on my back,” I said with a smile.
     
    “You’re hilarious too. What kind of music do you like?”
     
    “I like it all,” I told him.
     
    “Great, I just bought some fantastic hip hop CD’s I thought we could listen to tonight.”
     
    I think my face gave away what I was thinking because before I said anything, he laughed. “Oh good, you were kidding,” I said.
     
    “So, you don’t like it all. What do you like best? At your wedding, what song do you picture them playing?”
     
    “The wedding march,” I said.
     
    “You’re incorrigible. I was going to play you something on the piano tonight but…”
     
    “Oh no! Please play for me!”
     
    “What kind of music?”
     
    “I like classical,” I told him. “I love it, in fact. But, most people say that’s odd for a woman my age.”
     
    “That’s not odd at all. I love it too,” he said.
     
    “I knew we were made for each other.”
     
    “And that’s my cue,” he said, sliding down off his chair to the floor. Before I knew what was happening, he was on one knee and he had a tiny velvet box in his hand. “Adele Morgan, will you do me the honor of becoming my wife?”
     
    “Um… I was not expecting this…”
     
    “We don’t have to do it today, or tomorrow, or next week. I just want to wake up every morning knowing that someday… you’ll be my wife.”
     
    “Someday? Like maybe… next year?” My head was spinning. I loved him and I knew I wanted to spend the rest of my life with him. I also knew we had gotten off to a very rocky start and things would need to be a lot smoother before I could commit to that.
     
    “Next year?” he said, making a face. “How about six months?”
     
    “I don’t want to get married in March,” I said. It just came out and then I realized something. I did want to marry him. I could see it in my head. I had seen it in my dreams already. “How about May?” I said.
     
    He smiled and his dimples creased and my heart skipped a beat. This man loved me and wanted me to be his wife. “So is that a yes?” he asked.
     
    “Most definitely,” I told him.
     

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    CHAPTER SIX
     
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    ADELE
     
     
    All I had thought about after that moment was that May is the perfect season for a wedding. I spent my first full day back at work being stopped in the hall by people who noticed the ring and wanted to congratulate me. The only way someone would have not noticed the ring would be if I walked around with my hand in my pocket all day. It was beautiful, antique gold with a five carat chocolate diamond in the center of the setting. Like everything else about my life at that moment, it was perfect. Sometimes I caught myself staring adoringly at it when I was supposed to be doing something else, but I did put it in my pocket for one certain occasion… I had to tell Grant.
     
    I let Seth know that Friday night that I needed to stay at my own place and do that. I needed to tell him before he saw the ring, or heard us talking about it. When he got home from work that evening, I was already there with a bottle of wine and two glasses. When he saw them out on the table he said, “Uh-oh.”
     
    “What do you mean, “uh-oh?” Don’t you like to come home after a long day to your best friend and a bottle of wine?”
     
    He stripped off his jacket and tie and said, “I love it. But I know my best friend. A bottle of wine means good news… or bad. I guess lately I’m just a negative nelly.”
     
    “It’s good news… I think it’s good news.”
     
    He sat down and unbuttoned the front of his shirt. I poured us each a glass of wine and he picked his up and touched it to his lips before he said, “So is the news that you’re moving in with him?”
     
    “Not really,” I said. “I mean, yes… eventually I will be ready to do that, probably soon. But that’s not all.”
     
    I saw him glance at my left hand. I looked too, afraid I’d forgotten to take off