Page 69 of Her Elusive Cowboy Billionaire

“Green accents are usually enough.Everything green?No, not a good idea.”Then she laughed.“I still can’t believe the waiting area in your Denver office.Where else do you have offices?”

“All the home offices for my businesses are in Denver.Harper Security has an office in Los Angeles and one in New York.Harper Dynamics has an office in New York.One or the other has an office in London, Paris, Athens, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Montreal.”

“You definitely are worldwide.”His companies are much more expansive than I thought,

“Yes.You can travel with me and, after my meetings or before, we can play tourists.These cities have so much to offer.Have you ever been to any of them?”

“No.Except for Maui and Georgia, for school, I haven’t traveled much outside of Colorado.I’ve never been to Paris or London or any of those cities you mentioned.Are you sure you want to tie yourself to someone whose life is as simple as mine?Don’t you need a hostess, and?—”

He stopped her by melding his lips to hers.

She ran her hands through his hair and held his head close.

Too soon, he raised his head.“I don’t need anyone but you.If my contacts don’t like my wife, screw them.I can find other contacts.That’s the thing about being a billionaire.I make my own rules where my companies are concerned…of course, within the confines of the law.”

She finger-combed his hair.“I’m glad.I don’t want to be a detriment.”

“You could never be that.Now, come look at our room.”

Meri lifted a brow.“Our room?”

“After we marry, of course.Although, I’m glad you preferred the pink room, it’s closer.My original thoughts were to make that the nursery, but what I might end up doing is moving the linen closet and expanding that area to make a nursery.It doesn’t matter now.We have a long time before we need to think about that.”

“I don’t know.That is something we definitely need to talk about more than we have.Like when do you want to have children, given that I’m thirty-two and you’re thirty-seven?I don’t want to be having kids just graduating when I’m retired.”

“You’re right.Maybe we should start trying to have children right away.Are you on birth control?”He led her across the hall to the door to his bedroom.

She looked at him, a little alarmed.Did he want to have sex now?“No.After Jared, I determined I wouldn’t have sex again until after I got married, so there was no reason for me to have the hormones in my body.If I had needed them, I’d have taken them.I’m not against birth control of any kind.”

“Well, I think you’re correct about starting a family soon.By the way, when do you want to get married?”

She grinned.“I’m ready, willing, and able.”

He stood, holding the doorknob.“Even though we haven’t known each other that long?”

She wrapped her arms around his neck.“Yes, even so.Sometimes, you don’t need to know someone a long time to know it’s right.I knew Jared for five years before we decided to get married, and that wasn’t the right thing for us.I didn’t really know him at all.And he didn’t love me.He loved Angela.He just wanted my money.With you, all the feelings are right.I love you and you love me.And you respect me.He never did.Our relationship was wrong in so many ways.”

“Well, I’m thankful to him.”

Her eyes popped open.“For goodness’ sakes, why?”

“If he’d been a better man, you would have married him, and then you wouldn’t be marrying me.”

She thought about that.“You’re right.And I wouldn’t have found you.I should have known long ago that he and I were oil and water.”

He wrapped his arms around her waist.“So, you never actually answered my question.”

“I want to get married as soon as possible.I don’t need a big wedding.Just family and close friends.What about you?This is as much your wedding as mine.”

“I’m perfectly fine with a small, intimate wedding, but didn’t you have dreams of a perfect wedding when you were a little girl?”

“Not really.I had dreams of becoming a great artist and that’s what I’ve worked toward.”

“You are a great artist.I love your work.That’s why I want it in my offices and not just in Denver, but all over the world.”

She stared at him.How fantastic would that be?My art everywhere.“The world?”

He wrapped her in his arms.“Yes, I want to share your art with everyone.”