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She places her hand in mine, and I lead her to the dance floor. Hooking my hands around her waist, I stare down at those stunning blue eyes that still captivate my heart. Her pink hair is pulled up in a braided updo, completely exposing her neck. One that I am having a hard time resisting kissing.
“I have a surprise for you, and I can’t keep it to myself anymore. Can I tell you?” she asks me with pleading eyes.
Swaying to the music, I chuckle. I knew something had been up with her these last few days. She’s been secretive and sneaky with her phone.
“Tell me, baby,” I answer her with a smirk.
She grabs her phone from the inside of my coat pocket. “I hope you like the present. It’s for your birthday.”
She must find what she’s looking for because she pulls the phone to her chest with the biggest smile on her face.
“You can name her,” she says, turning the phone around and showing me a picture of a fluffy German shepherd puppy.
“Morgan,” I whisper in shock as my love for her pulses in my body. “She’s so cute.”
“I know. I have videos of her too. We will pick her up next Friday. Happy early birthday, Blue Eyes,” she says, leaning up and kissing me.
We sway, and I spin her all the way through a Taylor Swift song until my heart feels like it’s about to explode for what I feel for her.
“Come on. I have something to show you,” I whisper into her ear and take her hand in mine.
She giggles and follows along, whispering, “Where are we going?”
I drag her out to the hallway and unbutton my sleeve, rolling it up over the wrap on my forearm, above my raven.
“What is that?” she asks quietly.
Smiling, I say, “My new tattoo.”
When it’s revealed fully, she gasps and covers her mouth.
Meeting Morgan completely changed my life. I hadn’t known it, but I was lost before her. She is the happiness in my life and the future I look forward to. I knew I loved her before finding her on the ice. But the earth-shattering fear of potentially losing her reset my soul. I knew then that I didn’t want a day without her. I didn’t want to go to sleep without her in my arms. I didn’t want to love if I wasn’t loving her.
She stares at the new black ink on my forearm. Placed above my raven is a one-eyed dove with missing feathers, coming out of dark smoke.
“Do you like it?” I ask her nervously.
Without words, she grabs my face and kisses me deeply. “I love it, and I love you.”
Somehow, we escaped the darkness of our own lives and found each other. At different points in our lives, we saw death knocking, but we refused to answer. Every day, we choose to live and choose each other, and I’m going to continue to choose her for the rest of our lives.
Kissing her, I brush my finger against the most recent scar on her cheek and whisper, “I love you too, Little Dove.”
