All Yours
he said quietly, “you signed your freedom away to save your family.”
He took her hand.
“Then you gave it back to me freely.”
He opened the box.
Inside: a ring.
Platinum band, brilliant emerald center stone—matching the first gift he’d ever given her, the one that had started everything.
But this one was different.
Eternity diamonds encircled it.
And inside the band, engraved: His Forever.
He dropped to one knee.
“Ava Harper,” he said, “I bought you once. I don’t want to own you anymore.”