Bound By A Borrowed Heart のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 71 - チャプター 75

GIANNAThree months postpartum and Laurel cleared me for everything two weeks ago. Everything. She said it with a straight face and a raised eyebrow that communicated more than the medical charts.Since then, there's been a tension in the house that has nothing to do with war councils, moles or restraining orders. A thicker, and warmer tension. The kind that lives in the space between two people who've been sleeping in the same bed and not sleeping together, who've been careful with each other the way you're careful with something healing, and the healing is done.But my body is different now. The stretch marks run silver across my hips and lower belly. My waist is softer, my breasts fuller, the geometry of me rearranged by nine months of carrying a human and twelve hours of delivering one. I catch myself turning away from the mirror when I undress. Angling my body in bed so Sean sees the parts that haven't changed instead of the parts that have.He notices. He always notices, but h

SEANThe ring has been in my jacket pocket for two weeks now. Fourteen days of carrying a platinum band with a lavender sapphire through board meetings, security briefings and the particular insanity of managing a four-front war while simultaneously planning the simplest question a man can ask.The jeweler in Amsterdam cut the stone to match the exact shade of the lavender in the garden. The same garden my mother planted in February, the garden where I sat with Gianna on a bench and told her she didn't have to handle things alone. He owed me a favor from a deal I structured three years ago. I called it in for this.I've planned proposals. Elaborate ones. A rooftop dinner at the penthouse overlooking Central Park, champagne, a string quartet. A private gallery showing, with her paintings and the ring hidden in the centerpiece. A trip to Paris, the Louvre at closing time, just us and the Mona Lisa and a question.I rejected every single one. They're all performances. Gianna doesn't wa