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So I had to find someone who could make me a ring emerald-cut aquamarine ring with tulip and an owl, and somehow make it look fancy and beautiful.
And then have it inscribed with that very quote she’d mentioned all those years ago, the one she’d read to me and all but swooned over for months.
Ever thine. Ever mine. Ever ours.
To say it was not an easy task was putting it simply. I’d been laughed at twice, told it wasn’t possible to make that all work together five times, and kicked out of one store because they were sure I was bullshitting them.
It had been Donovan who’d come in to save me, introducing me to a designer he’d known. She didn’t have a fancy-ass shop in the middle of Miami or anything, but she did amazing work.
The sketch she’d drawn up was better than anything I could have imagined myself. So I gave her the go ahead, put down the money, and had been waiting for the finished product since.
The last update I got was a week ago, saying it was almost ready. And to prepare for my mind to be blown.
As soon as I had that in my hands, I could make the plan.
To get up early, drive down to that same beach, sit and watch the waves, then get down on my knee.
It all seemed to be going so quickly, but also, at the same time, it felt like it has been a long, long time coming.
We’d lost a lot of time.
We’d been trying to make up for it.
And since there wasn’t a doubt in either of our minds anymore, there was no reason to take things slower.
“You coming?” Teddy called, calm, casual.
You’d never know that, even then, he had some tricks up his sleeve that he’d been working on for months…
Amaranta - 11 months
“This is… weird,” I said to Michael as I walked out of an exam room to see Dr. Laurier, Dr. Hughes, and Dr. Miller standing in a circle talking to… Teddy?
Seeley’s Teddy.
“I know, right?” Michael asked as he flipped open a file. “They were walking around for a few minutes. And now they’ve been standing there for, like, twenty.”
“Maybe it’s not that weird. Teddy is wealthy. The doctors are rich too, just not to the same extent. They could have met at some event or something.”
“Yeah, but then why are they all here?” Michael asked, shaking his head.
“I don’t know,” I admitted as I put my file down on the stack of the others, watching my ring catch the light.
I really had no business wearing it at work.
But I couldn’t seem to bring myself to take it off, either.
Because this man, this man I’d agreed to spend the rest of my life with, he’d got down on one knee with the exact ring I’d described to him well over a decade before, as a silly, romantic little girl who’d just discovered Beethoven’s letters to his “Immortal Beloved” at the library, and had been swooning ever since.
He’d not only remembered, but then dragged up that memory, tracked down a designer, and had it made for me.
It broke my heart a tiny bit anytime I had to take off the ring to shower or wash dishes. In the brand new house that Seeley had bought for us.
Which was still taking a lot of getting used to.
Because it was a huge step.
Not living together. We’d pretty much been doing that for months.
