Annalise's POV
I need a moment to catch my breath. “Did you just ask me to marry you?”
Kane looks away for a moment, his eyes on the lake as he replies, “If I were, would you say yes?”
He can’t mean what he’s saying. Kane knows our relationship is only for show, that we aren’t anything other than allies and maybe friends. But as I open my mouth to say this, I notice his eyes upon me. There is a softness there that has never been there before, or at least I have never noticed it.
He means it. This isn’t a joke.
“Kane, our arrangement has been the same for all of these years,” I remind him, avoiding his gaze. “I don’t see a reason for anything to change.”
The moonlight dancing in his eyes, he stops me, holding my hands to his chest. Taking a deep breath, he looks at me with such in
