Our Parents Wed in June, So I Spent the Winter Claiming My Stepbrother novel · Chapter 20 of 24

Chapter 20: Dawn

Reeve's POV

I woke at five on the third of April, and the first thing I thought about was the ring.

It was in the inside pocket of my canvas coat, on the chair by the window, in a gray velvet box.

I had bought it in Gunnison in the middle of March, on a Tuesday, from a jeweler who had known my mother.

I had not told anyone.

I had planned to ask Page the night my father and Sonja got home, on the porch.

The camera would watch, the one I had hated and learned to love.

Two more days.

I lay on my back in the gray light and looked at the ceiling.

Page was curled against my side with her head on my shoulder and one leg across mine.

Her braid had come loose in the night and lay across my chest.

I moved a strand off her cheek, and she did not wake.

The window showed a pale line over the mountain.

I thought, I'm going to be thirty in two years, and I'm going to have her.

Then something moved under the blanket.

A hand slid down my stomach, slow and warm.

"Page?" I whispered.

"Mm."

"I thought you were asleep."

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