Proposal

"Jasper, what is it just stop asking stupid questions and tell me?" Ellie said, feeling somewhat worried this wasn't like him. "Tell me? If it helps then yes I am, I've slept with no one." She said, looking up at him with eyes full of love. He seemed to heave a sigh of relief.

"So, what's the problem?" She asked, knowing now that there was one. "What is it, Jasper?"

"In precisely six months, I'm thirty-five, my father changed his will, put riders in; it now says that I must be married by the time I reach that birthday. If I'm not, I don't get the money,  my mother can't stay in the manor, and Henry will give the properties, to my long lost half-brother who will also take on the dukedom, and if they can't find him, it will probably go to the fucking dog's home." he shook his head in disbelief.

"You weren't here when he was alive; we used to have incredible rows about my not being responsible for the whole heritage thing. He thought that being an artist was n