The Proposal
"I was serious. I'm facing a $250,000 fine and five years in prison. JUST FOR YOU! That changes everything.""Promoting you to editor? No, no way Eren!""Then I'll quit, and you're fucked. It really has been a piece of heaven working for you. Goodbye Levi." Levi watched Eren's turn, ready to leave. Can he blackmail him like that? Son of a bitch!"I'll make you an editor. Fine. I'll make you an editor if you do the Alaska weekend and the immigration interview. Happy?""And not in two years. Right now. And you'll publish my manuscript. Twenty thousand copies, first printing. And we'll tell my family about our engagement when I want to and how I want to. Now, you ask me nicely.""Tch, ask you nicely about what?""Ask me nicely if I will marry you, Levi.""Are you out of your mind? I'll never do that!""But you will. Come on, kneel down and ask me." Levi looked around to see if there were many people, fortunately only a few, so he reluctantly knelt. He lifted his head to Eren and rolled his eyes."Marry me, brat.""No, no! Say it the way you mean it, and I want you to be at least a little bit romantic about it.""You're a pathetic bastard!""You should accept that your future husband is a pathetic bastard." Levi closes his eyes and bites his lip. When this is all over, Eren will pay for this. He looked at the younger man again and took a deep breath. "Eren, my sweet little Eren. From the first moment I saw you, I knew that I wanted to spend the rest of my life with a stubborn brat like you. Will you be so kind and wonderful and marry me?""Hmmm, I don't appreciate your sarcasm, but okay, I'll marry you. See you tomorrow at the airport, bye." Levi stood up and as he dusted his expensive trousers, Eren disappeared from his sight. Bastard!…