Chapter 2
To his credit, Rivers kept his expression blank as he continued to stare at us. Scott continued to blush scarlet red. It was those Irish genes.
I cleared my throat. Now that the cat was out of the bag, and quite quickly at that, I moved headlong into the topic. “Scott’s right. I asked him to marry me and he accepted. Given our obvious change in our personal relationship, we knew we had to notify you.” I paused. “Sir.”
“How long?”
“Captain?”
Rivers steepled his fingers together. “Have you been engaged?”
Scott glanced at me, then back to Rivers. “I don’t know the exact amount of time.”
“But not like last night?” At our shrugs, he sighed. “There have been rumors. I can’t say I’m entirely surprised. In fact, I suspected you’d be in here one day with this.”
“Rumors? People hav
