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“I want your desk cleared,” she told the other woman dismissively. “You will then hand in your security pass and leave the building in the next two minutes.”
“Don’t you want to know why I did it?” Sally challenged scornfully.
“No,” Ellie answered flatly. “It’s enough that you betrayed every bit of trust I placed in you.”
Sally’s top lip turned back in a sneer. “Andy always said you were frigid and cold?—”
“It’s time for you to leave, bitch,” Benny cut in angrily before turning to Ellie. “Can I go down in the elevator with her, boss, and have the pleasure of kicking her out of the building?”
Ellie’s laugh was spontaneous. Benny’s humor never let her down. “I thought you liked her?”
“She’s lazy and thinks she’s the boss of me,” he dismissed. “I also think she stole my lip gloss last month,” he confided with an accusing glare at Sally.
“I’ll come with you,” Linus offered, following them from the room. Again, he shut the door as he left.
Leaving Ellie and Knox, and a charged silence, behind them.
“You were magnificent.” Knox crossed the office to pull Ellie to her feet before kissing her.
Hard.
Possessively.
He rested his forehead against hers, long and passionate minutes later, his arms about her waist, her arms up about his shoulders. “I’m not sure if this is the right time, but I love you to the depths of my soul. Will you marry me?”
“As I love you to the depths of my soul, my answer is yes, of course I’ll marry you,” Ellie accepted emotionally.
He pulled back slightly. “You will?”
“I will— Knox!” she gave a squeal as he picked her up and spun her around as he held her in his arms.
“I love you. I love you. I love you,” he chanted as they continued to circle.
Ellie was openly laughing by the time he finally lowered her back to the carpeted floor, glad to have his arms about her still as her knees threatened to collapse beneath her. “Today has been the worst day and the best day of my life.” She moved her hands to cradle either side of his face. “I really do love you, Knox,” she told him intensely. “You are the kindest, toughest, most honorable man it has ever been my good fortune to meet.”
“And you are the bravest, kindest, and most honorable woman it has ever been my good fortune to meet.” He stared deeply into her eyes. “I promise I will love you for the rest of our hopefully long lives and beyond.”
Their words, spoken so honestly and with such love, became part of their marriage vows to each other at their wedding a month later.
A wedding where Ellie met Angel and all the Wynter family and their close friends. A beaming Benny was also present, wearing an engagement ring of his own, his boyfriend having proposed two weeks ago.
Ellie was surprised to learn that another of the wedding guests, a tall blond Russian, was second to the head of the London bratva. Despite Nikolai Volkov’s urbane appearance in perfectly tailored clothing, it wasn’t too difficult to imagine him wielding power over life and death in regard to people he considered to be his boss’s enemies.
Almost nine months to the day after Ellie and Knox’s wedding, Ellie gave birth to their gorgeous son, Adam Linus. A year after that, their beautiful daughter, Genevieve Millie Rose, to be known as Evie, was also born.
