Squeezing my eyes shut, I groan.
“Don’t worry, you didn’t say anything that bad. Besides, I think it’s awesome you speak it. We can communicate in secret whenever we want.”
Well, yes, if you want to look at the positive side…
“Hey. You haven’t answered my question.” He looks at me with blue eyes bright with love. “Will you marry me?”
I kiss him. “HIja’. A thousand times HIja’. But it’s going to be a long engagement. I’m going to plan a ceremony we’ll never forget.”?
?Whatever you want,” he says.
But I already have what I want—Court Blackwood, speaker of Klingon, center of my universe and keeper of my heart.
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