So he abandoned the plan.
He laughed. Busted. “Because I was going to. I had a speech. It was very good. It used the word ‘synergy’ twice.” caprice - marry me
Leo grinned. That was better than forever. That was a promise renewed by choice, not by contract. So he abandoned the plan
And when the justice—such as he was—said, “You may kiss the bride,” Caprice grabbed Leo by the tie and kissed him like a sudden storm. “Because I was going to
But looking at her—at the smudge of charcoal on her thumb, at the way the fairy lights caught the silver ring in her nose—he realized that a speech was a structure. And Caprice didn’t live in structures. She lived in the spaces between them.
“No. You’re calculating .” She finally looked up, her eyes the color of sea glass after a storm. “You’ve got that furrow. The one you get when you’re trying to solve for X. What is it? The mortgage? My mother’s next visit?”