The Night Before Christian (13 page)
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Authors: Joy Avery
He tipped his head forward
and kissed her. “Clearly, I haven’t convinced you that I would do anything for
you.”
Emory smiled. “Yeah,
you have. But now you have to do one more thing for me.”
“And what’s that?”
“Accept this money as
repayment.” She smiled. “You know I don’t like to be indebted.”
Christian studied her a
moment. “I have a better idea for this money.”
Christian reached
inside the chest and removed a single twenty dollar bill. He folded and
refolded the currency. Tucked here, creased there.
Emory laughed. “Are you
making a money airplane?”
A couple of minutes
later he was done. It wasn’t an airplane. Cleary, he, too, possessed a few
talents she wasn’t aware of. “You want to make fifty thousand dollars worth of
origami rings?”
“No. I wanted to make
one ring. We’ll spend the other forty-nine thousand, nine-hundred and eighty
dollars on our wedding.”
“On our wed—” When he
lowered to one knee, Emory’s mouth fell open.
“We’ve been through a
lot. Things meant to break us. But we held strong to our love for each other.”
Emory draped her hand
over her mouth and nodded, tears stinging her eyes.
“I can’t promise you we
won’t have bad days. I can’t promise you that every day with me will be perfect.
I can’t promise you that I won’t make mistakes. What I can promise you is that
I’ll be your lover and your best friend. That I’ll be everything a good man can
and should be to his wife. I promise my trust, my loyalty, my devotion. I
promise that I will love you fervently and unconditionally ’til the ocean runs
dry. And even then, I won’t stop loving you. Emory Gale Chambers, will you marry
me and make me the happiest man on this planet?”
“Are you sure about
this, Christian?”
“I’ve never been surer of
anything in my life.”
A tear escaped down her
cheek. There was no need for hesitation. She wanted to spend her life with this
man. “Yes, yes, yes. I’ll marry you.”
Christian slid the
money ring onto her finger. “A perfect fit.”
Emory regarded
Christian with admiration. “We’re a perfect fit.”
When he came to his
feet, he captured her mouth in a heady kiss. The idea of a lifetime of kisses
like this thrilled her. She protested when Christian tried to pull away.
He dragged a bent
finger down her cheek. “They say whatever you’re doing when the New Year comes
in is what you’ll be doing all year long. I want to marry you on New Year’s, at
the stroke of midnight, because vowing my love to you is what I want to be
doing every single day of my life. What do you say?”
“I say…yes.”
Emory squealed when
Christian yanked her into his arms and spun her around. She owed Santa and
apology. Turns out, he’d sent the right man after all.
Thank you, Santa
.
THE END
By day, Joy Avery works as a customer service assistant. By night, the
North Carolina native travels to imaginary worlds—creating characters whose
romantic journeys invariably end happily ever after.
Since she was a young girl growing up in Garner, Joy knew she wanted to
write. Stumbling onto romance novels, she discovered her passion for love stories.
Instantly, she knew these were the type stories she wanted to pen.
Real characters. Real journeys. Real good love is what you’ll find in a
Joy Avery romance.
Joy is married with one child. When not writing, she enjoys reading, cake
decorating, pretending to expertly play the piano, driving her husband insane,
and playing with her two dogs.
Joy is a member of Romance Writers of America and Heart of Carolina
Romance Writers.
I’d first like to say THANK YOU so much for
your support! Many of you are spreading the word about Joy Avery romances like
wildfire, and I’m eternally grateful! My goal is, and will always be, to write
beautiful love stories that take you on an emotional and satisfying journey
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BEFORE CHRISTIAN. Please help me spread the word about Emory and Christian by
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