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Оглавление‘The only other option,’ Eliot said tonelessly, ‘is for me to be in the same position as Ryan’s mum. Married. So I can offer Ryan the same kind of stable home, with two parents.’
Why did the idea of Eliot marrying someone else make her feel as if someone were dissecting her heart with a rusty knife?
‘…completely mad.’
‘What?’ She’d missed most of what he’d just said.
‘I said, at three o’clock this morning I thought of the perfect solution, but it was completely mad. You’ll say no, so there’s no point in asking.’
‘No to what?’ she asked, mystified.
‘Marrying me.’
No down-on-one-knee, no declaration of love, no nothing. He didn’t even look as if he was saying something out of the ordinary. No, he probably hadn’t even said that. It had been a mixture of wishful thinking and—
She blinked, hoping to clear her head. ‘Did you just ask me to marry you?’
