Billionaires Don't Fall in Love

FIFTY-SIX

"I feel good." Anteros smiled. "Stop worrying about me losers, a man needs his space."

"You loser. Why did you freak us out like that."
Oliver rolled his eyes.

"I totally chose to get shot." Anteros playfully said.

"Where's my bestie?" Valeria asked me while sitting down.

"Athena is with Bia grabbing some things from my apartment, I told them to get food too," Anteros said. I nodded along. "He's been sad without wifey."

"Whatever." I stood up. The small box fell out of my pocket.

"What's this." Valeria picked it up. She slowly opened it. "Wow, this is a huge ring."

"Val." I rolled my eyes.

"A ring?" Oliver questioned. "For who?"

"You dummies. He's planning to propose to her. Duh." Eros shook his head.

"But you guys are already engaged." Jacob furrowed his eyebrows.

"He never proposed though. She's been wearing a ring from Beverly. I think this is so sweet." Valeria smiled while looking at the ring. "So how are we gonna do this?"

"We?" I questioned.

She nodded. "I have to make sure it's magical."

"I was going to do it at Bia's birthday party."

"Thank God. That would've been so tacky." Valeria shook her head.

"Which is why I was going to fly her to Paris and propose. Right before the lights turned come on, on the tower. But then I realized that she had a lot of trauma from there and I didn't want her to be on edge."

"True." Anteros nodded.

"So I've been stumped. The wedding is two weeks away and I wanna propose before then."

"Well duh," Oliver said.

"This is beautiful." Valeria inspected it.

"Yeah? Her favorite color is emerald and I was nervous to do that because most girls want the traditional way, but Athena isn't traditional. So I did the big emerald right there." I rambled. "And this top row, right here. It's kinda shaped like a crown with the tiny pearls in between. And then the bottom, a row of diamonds."

"Oh wow."

"Yeah. When we watched the princess and the frog, she gawked over that pearl ring and I wanted to add that in."

"Bro. You are so in love." Oliver smiled. "I love it."

"She's going to love this Tobi. You put in so many intricate details." Valeria smiled. "And I have an idea of what you can do."

"Oh, I know!" Anteros said.

"Go Ant."

"Okay, there's a song in the princess and the frog-"

"You watch princess movies?" Jacob questioned.

"I just watched that one. She was the first black princess. Anyways! It's called Evangeline. Well, there's a lantern fest tonight and when the lanterns are released they play that song. You can rent a boat out onto the river and when you release the lights, pop the question. She'll love it."

"Good idea." I nodded. Valeria handed me the ring back and I placed it in my pocket.

"I got food!" Athena walked in carrying two trays of drinks. Bia came in afterward with a bag. "I got us food from the diner by our penthouse."