“Be my wife.” That should hopefully come off clearer, as he leans down to nose around her ear.
Ha. It comes out as a sigh, a breath that’s rushed out of her chest before she can catch it.
“Is that my reward for good behavior?”
She’s a little wonder struck by the idea, and takes his hand in hers for support.
“If you’d like to treat it that way.” But he was here for all her behavior, not just when she was trying to pretty herself up to impress his parents.
He was always unconventional about these things. Figures he’d find the weirdest way to propose.



