Awakened
"Let me be the one to hold the gates for a while."
He gently tugged the blindfold away.
The sunlight hit me first, dazzlingly bright, but as my eyes adjusted, I gasped. The rooftop was covered in thousands of white roses.
In the center of the garden, overlooking the skyline of the city I had just conquered, Marcus was down on one knee. He held a velvet box, and inside, a diamond the size of a postage stamp caught the light, fracturing it into a thousand tiny rainbows.
My heart stopped. The memory of Julian Vane faded into nothingness. The job offer, the rivalry, the fear, it all vanished.