Thread:StoryGirl83/@comment-28828403-20180302192146/@comment-3452092-20180304153023

I really hope that I'm right and if they MC doesn't marry Liam than he finds someone else that he grows to love who loves him in return (presumably Olivia, but who knows). He has to marry someone due to who he is, but I don't want the story to end with him still pining after someone he can't have.

Yes, Bertrand! They really should have told him before then, but it was a hilarious reveal.

Since I work on the guides (with four slightly divergent story lines due to the four love interests, this chapter was kind of insane), I can tell you that in all four versions of the scene, Maxwell is fiddling with twigs, so in the other three, that's all it is, but it that one it's an engagement ring, which is crazy cute.

Do I think it was too fast? This time I have to say yes. (Same with Drake who resisted being in a relationship with the MC for all of book 1 and most of book 2 and also proposed in this chapter.) I actually think it's less than three weeks, maybe one, two on the outside. On the other hand, their relationship is built on a solid friendship that has build over months, not sure exactly how long, but still probably less than a year. They spent all the time together during the social season and then while the MC was training after the scandal broke, they probably spent an even larger portion of their time together. They investigated who was behind the scandal together. They may not have actually been together all that long or even known each other an exceedingly long amount of time, but you got to admit, Maxwell can be impulsive and extremely stubborn. He's a lot stronger than people give him credit for (shouldering his brother's problems, taking care of Savannah) and I honestly think he does know his own mind. While I do think this is an impulse, it's not one he thought of when they went for a walk. It's probably one he's been thinking of ever since the lights went out and he's probably considered the options. Essentially he probably sees it as "Do I want her in my life forever or not?" And once he decided he did, that was it. The rest is just details.

Amusingly, I find Drake's proposal less logical than I do Maxwell's. Unlike Maxwell, he's a lot more careful and while I could totally believe him proposing in a chapter or two under the circumstances, I just think he would take longer to get to that point, because everything about the relationship is just harder for him even though he's technically been in a relationship with the MC for months longer than Maxwell has. On the other hand, Drake fought this for a long time and it's entirely possible that once he quite fighting he could already see himself getting married to her (in the scene he says he's been carrying his grandmother's engagement ring around for a while, it could be since they got back to Cordonia and that he made the decision to ask her as soon as she turned down Liam for him).

Who knows. There could be a Valtorian engagement ring (although I don't see him accepting that). Anything from his family probably would belong to his brother and even if Bertrand isn't there yet, I think Maxwell would see it as belonging on Savannah's hand or at least potentially belonging there (though I'm pretty sure Maxwell sees a happy ending for Bertrand and Savannah that ends with them together). A ring doesn't have to be expensive to be special, so while I doubt he has the money to "save the dukedom" he probably does have some money saved up. Despite how his brother sees him, Maxwell really is pretty responsible. . . most of his spending has been to see to Savannah's care. There were the peacocks. . . but everything else I think was for Savannah.