Nothing Personal (33 page)

“Then
I need to ask you.” He was choking up too, but it didn’t matter, not anymore. “I need to ask you to marry me, and work with me, and have my babies, and help me make someplace beautiful to come home to, someplace with you in it. Because I need to give you a good life. And I need you with me, because if I don’t have you, my own life won’t be any good at all.”

She was smiling back at him, and her heart and soul were in that smile, offered to him along with all her strength and all her courage, and he knew that he’d be spending the rest of his life trying to make hers better. Trying to make it beautiful.

“Well, then,”
she said, and he could see her trying for her usual brisk tone, but it wasn’t working too well, because her voice was trembling.

“
If you need to ask me,” she managed to say, “I guess you’d better go ahead and do it. Because I love you too. And I need—I need so much. I need so much to say yes.”

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Also by Rosalind James:

THE KINCAIDS
series:

Book
One (Mira and Gabe’s story):
WELCOME TO PARADISE

Book Two (Desiree and Alec’s story): NOTHING PERSONAL

The
ESCAPE TO NEW ZEALAND
series:

Book One (Hannah and Drew’s story):
JUST THIS ONCE

Book Two (Kate and
Koti’s story):
JUST GOOD FRIENDS

Book Three (Jenna and Finn’s story
):
JUST FOR NOW

Book Four (Emma and
Nic’s story):
JUST FOR FUN

Book
Five (Ally and Nate/Kristen and Liam’s stories):
JUST MY LUCK

Many people assisted in the research for this book. However, any errors or omissions are my own. My sincere thanks to (in alphabetical order):

Computer security and software applications:
Carol Chappell, Systems Analyst, California Judicial Council; Dave Gilbert; Steve Pryor, Verity Systems; David Smith; Kevin Smith.

Fashion:
Erika Iiams, Department of Family and Consumer Sciences, University of Idaho

Legal issues:
The Hon. Barbara Buchanan

Mercedes-Benz mechanical issues and safety:
Kris Klein, Mercedes-Benz of Oakland; John Wansick, Fairmount Auto Service

San Francisco real estate:
Jeffrey Marples, Managing Broker, Spinnaker Real Estate Group

As always, my heartfelt thanks to my awesome critique group: Barbara Buchanan, Carol Chappell, Anne Forell, and Bob Pryor.

And, of course, to my husband, Rick Nolting
, for reading what I write, and for not being embarrassed about being married to a romance novelist.

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