(Song for this Scene Haley Reinhart – Can't Help Falling in Love with you)
Veronica felt her heart hiccup as the air deserted her lungs in a rush.
Oh God… what had he done?
Logan stared as her just kissed lips parted in shock, mere inches between them. Ocean blue eyes wide and full of questions. That was not the kind of statement one just dished out like a sugar-free lollipops at a dentist's office.
It wasn't the first time he'd seen that lost for words expression on her angelic face.
Damn she was beautiful…
Proposing in the middle of sex… wasn't that number one on the Reddit list of inappropriate times to ask for someone's hand in marriage?
Logan was still buried deep inside her, her petite body pressed against the door, his fingers gripped tight to her thighs and tried his best not to speak, keeping himself as still as possible. He'd never felt as vulnerable as he did right now. Veronica quivered around his girth and adjusted her legs wrapped around his waist and he gasped as her silken sheath clenched him tighter. Her body still hummed with irrepressible desire, and his cock shifted inside her even though he tried his best to be still.
The moment had felt so intimate… so right… now he was terrified of her answer.
Could they come back from this if she didn't feel the same?
Time had slowed until all they could hear were their ragged breaths intermingling as the question hung in the air. Her heart raced; in a few more moments the silence was going to be unbearably awkward.
Veronica settled her elbows on his shoulders, soothing her fingers through his hair.
"Marry me…" he repeated.
She could feel his heart pounding against her naked breasts as the adrenalin pumped through her veins. The door was cold against her back and she breathed in carefully, they'd been in the middle of very hot and steamy - brain melting sex, was this just something he'd said in the heat of the moment?
Surely he lose his poker face soon burst out laughing and declare it was all a joke?
The earth shook beneath when moments went by, and he didn't. His whiskey-brown eyes tore away from her face. He gripped her tighter… he was nervous.
It was like waking up one day and realizing the earth was round.
Logan had proposed to her.
Oh GOD…
"You should put me down…" she said shakily.
They were still intimately joined and in the intensity of the moment Veronica wasn't sure he heard her at first, he didn't look at her.
"Logan." she said softly in a voice not much more than a whisper.
I've messed up… Logan thought in dismay. Stupid Stupid Logan…
"You know how you get when I tell you I love you…" she he'd almost broken the shower door last time. "I can only imagine what damage you'd do when I say…."
"Bobcat… ?" he asked, his pulse was racing. He wasn't leaving any margin for error here.
"Yes… Logan Echolls… I will marry you." Veronica confirmed as his brown eyes held her gaze, a kind of wonder glimmered there that she'd never seen before.
"I am so in love with you…" he whispered and captured her mouth with his.
The kiss was deep, drugging and consuming, he began to thrust into her earnestly and she panted as her nails dug into his shoulders, feeling her bodies tell-tale jerk as her hips rocked against him, luxuriating in the sensations as he was coaxing towards that mind-shattering peak, her little mewls of delight as she kissed him back as they melted into each other.
She was going to be his… always…
Some of the best moments of life were the ones you had to roll a dice on a hope and prayer for because anything worth having was rarely earned without risk.
Rational thought finally made it's reappearance as Veronica pulled on his t-shirt and curled up beside Logan in bed.
"I understand about getting caught up in the moment…" she promised nervously. "and if you did its okay…."
"You just gave me everything I ever wanted…" Logan told her earnestly tugging on the hem of the shirt and pulling it over her head again and tossing it back onto the floor.
"It really caught me by surprise…"
"The ring Mac found?" Logan chuckled as he turned back to her, something in his hand. "I bought for you… I've been trying to figure how to ask you for weeks… nothing ever seemed good enough…" he told her as he handed her the small blue jewellery box.
Sheepishly Veronica took it from him and opened it, her mouth fell open in surprise.
"This is…" she declared as she looked at the rose gold engagement ring with a rainbow moonstone in a halo setting.
"I bought it the day after you uh… wore my Hearst Prisoner Uniform… " he confessed.
He'd wanted to propose to her since then?
Veronica felt her heart swell and her eyes teared up as she slipped the ring onto her finger, it fit perfectly. She'd been admiring this ring in the jewellery store during their first few weeks at Hearst during a diamond fraud case.
"Damn you Logan…" she cursed. "I swear there's times you make me feel like such a girl…" she sniffed and he kissed her. "Okay… but just so we are clear… you asked me during sunset on our hike tomorrow" she told him.
"Just as long as your answer is still yes…" he agreed.
"Always…" she promised.
