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When I’m fully qualified, finally, we go to Africa to celebrate. I’ve always wanted to go on a safari and Connor has connections with a six-star park there. The bungalow we stay in overlooks a wild, untamed expanse and we’re woken at dawn by an elephant drinking just outside our window.
I poke Connor’s ribs and he blinks, then smiles. A smile I will never get sick of.
That night we watch the sun go down and it is red and pink, the sky mauve and black. It’s like nature’s fireworks. And it is against that backdrop that he asks me to marry him, and he promises me the same thing he did three years earlier. He promises to try to deserve me, for the rest of our lives.
And I tell him that he does—that he has deserved me from the beginning.
I agree to marry him, and my dreams shift once more—there is a wedding and one day children, but always Connor, and always the CPS, and this beautiful life with a strong, flawed, courageous partner by my side.
For as long as we both shall live.
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