Royal Chase (28 page)

He reached into his pants pocket and pulled out a black velvet ring box, making my breath hitch. Giddy excitement bubbled up inside me, my pulse skyrocketing out of control. My hands trembled in anticipation. He opened it up to reveal an enormous pale yellow diamond ring in an antique silver setting. “You don’t have to say anything yet. But I got this from my mother’s vault when we were in Monterra visiting my family. It was my great-grandmother’s ring.”

“The one from the gypsy legend?”

“The very same.”

I had been right. Dante chose the absolute perfect ring for me. I had loved the magical story of how his great-grandparents found each other. I already adored this beautiful ring, but not nearly as much as I adored him.

“And guess what kind of diamond this is?” He took it out of the box. “A lemon diamond. It’s fated, don’t you think?”

I did.

I even let him put the ring on me. And, not surprisingly, it fit.

“How do you feel, Princess Lemon?”

I looked at my lemon diamond engagement ring in the moonlight, and then I looked at the handsome, wonderful, amazing man next to me who would be my husband. I put a hand on the side of his face.

“I feel happier than a tick on a fat dog.”

“And that’s a good thing?” he asked.

I laughed, and was so happy that I would spend the rest of my life loving and laughing with him.

“Yes, darlin’. That’s a very good thing.”

NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR

I know that there are so many ways that you could choose to spend what little free time you have, and I am beyond grateful that you chose to spend it with Dante and Lemon.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I have to begin by thanking Kindle Scout/Kindle Press, the Kindle Scout team, and most especially Caroline Carr, for going above and beyond for me. This book exists because of your actions behind the scenes.

Very special thanks to Anh Schluep, for calling me the day before my birthday and making a decades-long dream come true by offering me a publishing contract to write romance. I will always be grateful for that, and I’m still screaming on the inside. Thank you to Chris Werner for jumping onboard and taking care of everything.

Thank you to the Montlake team, to Susan, Marlene, and Jessica, for all your hard work in bringing Monterra to the rest of the world. Thanks to my developmental editor, Melody Guy, for helping me to explain what I meant to say but didn’t, and for leaving LOLs in the margin, reassuring me that I’d made at least one person laugh. Thank you to Montreux Rotholtz and Jessica Fogleman for cleaning up all my grammatical messes and to Kerrie Robertson for the cover. My little sister, Charity Byrd, must be thanked for reading this book before anyone else in the world did, and for letting me know what she liked and what she didn’t.

Thank you to the lights of my life, my four children, who are growing faster than I would like and who are becoming far too independent. Thank you for thinking that being a writer is no big deal and always keeping me grounded, and for filling my heart with so much joy.

And I always save the best for last—my love and thanks to my husband, Kevin, who supports me and loves me and makes this journey through life worthwhile. When people tell me that no fictional hero could actually be so nice, so charming, so smart, so handsome, or so loving in real life, I only have to look at you to know that they’re wrong.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Sariah Wilson has never jumped out of an airplane, never climbed Mount Everest, and is not a former CIA operative. She has, however, been madly, passionately in love with her soul mate and is a fervent believer in happily-ever-afters—which is why she writes romance.
Royal Chase
is her sixth happily-ever-after novel. She grew up in Southern California, graduated from Brigham Young University (go Cougars!) with a semi-useless degree in history, and is the oldest of nine (yes, nine) children. She currently lives with the aforementioned soul mate and their four children in Utah, along with three tiger barb fish, a cat named Tiger, and a recently departed hamster that is buried in the backyard (and has nothing at all to do with tigers).

Her website is
www.sariahwilson.com
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