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Flynn
I holdthe door open as Roman carries the last of the girls’ boxes in. Adeline is finally out of the hospital and the girls have been laying on the couch pretending to order us around all morning. I just smile as I hear them giggle as they tease Roman.
“Oh, I don’t know if I like those boxes there. What do you think Aspen?”
“No, you’re right. I think they would look much better in that corner.” Our girl says, pointing to the opposite corner.
“Mmm. Yes, that would really tie the room together.” Adeline says as she pretends to look at the boxes with a critical eye.
“You guys know the boxes aren’t staying, right? That eventually you’ll need to unpack the boxes and then we can break them down.” Roman asks.
“I kind of like them there. Maybe we should never unpack and just leave it like that.” Aspen says.
Roman and I shake our heads but the truth is, if boxes everywhere really made Aspen happy, then we would do it in a heartbeat. We would do anything for our girl. Roman walks into the kitchen to get a bottle of water and I trail after him.
“Did you get it?” I ask.
“Yeah.” He says, pulling the velvet jeweler’s box out of his pocket.
He flips the lid, revealing a sparkling emerald cut ring. We picked it out a week ago but we had to have it sized and it wasn’t ready until today.
“Tonight?” I confirm, looking at Roman.
He nods at me as the biggest grin stretches across his face.
“Oh, boys!” The girls sing-song from the other room and I just laugh and shake my head as I walk back into the living room to see what they need.
“Goodnight Adeline.”Aspen whispers as she backs out of her room.
“She fell asleep?” I ask as I close the door behind her.
“Yeah, she’s still getting tired pretty easily.”
“The doctor said that was normal. I’m sure she’ll get her strength back soon.” I try to reassure her.
“I know.” She says as she wraps her arm around my waist and leans into me.
“Thanks for letting us stay here.” She says as I tug her towards our room.
“You live here now too.” I remind her. “You already said yes. No take backs!” I say only half-joking.
She laughs as I lead her into the bedroom and when she sees what we’ve done her laughter dies off immediately.
“What is all of this?” She asks as she looks around at all of the flowers.
They cover every available surface of our room. Flower petals are scattered in a path towards the bed where more flower petals form a heart on the bedspread. Roman stands next to the bed and he watches with me as Aspen takes it all in.
I grab her hand and lead her over to the bed and Roman comes to join us. He grabs her other hand and together we both lower down to one knee. Aspen gasps and we smile up at her.
“Aspen, you’re it for us. We’ve been looking for the perfect girl for so long now and I was starting to think that we would never find you but then we walked into that coffee shop and saw you and we just knew that you were it.”
“We want to give you the family and stability that you never had. We want to love you and take care of you for the rest of our lives. We want to have babies and grow old with you.” Roman continues.
“So, Aspen Jane Parilla, Will you marry us?” I ask as I slide the ring out of my pocket.
“Yes!” She cries and I leap to my feet to wrap my arms around her.
I feel Roman wrap his arms around both of us. We stand, clinging to each other as I slide the ring onto her finger. She grips my hair and brings my head down to hers so our lips meet. Passion quickly takes over and I steer her back to the bed and gently push her down on the petal covered mattress.
