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“Because we have an infinite supply.” I reached out and touched his cheek. “Your heart is safe with me. I’ll take good care of it. I promise.”
Asher made a gruff sound, his eyes shining, and the next thing I knew he was on one knee next to me in the sand. He held the box out and reached to open it, then stopped and fixed me with a grouchy look.
“You have to stand up or else all this kneeling doesn’t mean anything.”
I laughed with tears in my eyes and got to my feet. “So bossy.”
“Faith,” he said, his voice hoarse. “I don’t know what’s coming next. I don’t know what’s going to happen tomorrow or even in the next hour, but I know that I love you. That is something that will never change, not so long as I live and breathe. Whatever happens, I will always love you.”
He opened the box and there it was—a beautiful shimmery gray pearl surrounded by diamonds in a wide gold band.
My hand flew to my mouth. “Oh my God, I never imagined… So beautiful. It’s like Hawaii with little city lights all around it.”
“It’s us,” Asher said gruffly. “Faith…will you marry me?”
I nodded slowly at first and then vigorously, the joy bursting out of me.
“What was the point of standing up if I’m just going to fall on top of you?” I cried and then did just that, flinging my arms around him, both of us on our knees, kissing while I saidyes, over and over again.
He slipped the ring on my finger where the pearl seemed to absorb and reflect the gray of the ocean after a storm while the diamonds captured the glint of the sun peeking through the clouds. Storm clouds rimmed with sunlight.Like sadness and joy, grief and love—I wanted all of it—but only with this man.
I kissed Asher, and our future felt like the horizon—sun and storms both, stretching out into forever and taking us wherever we wanted to go.
