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Elation makes me feel lightheaded, pouring through me like beams of golden light. “Thank you?” I say, my hand gripping the mass of wet hair resting against the nape of her neck.
“For doing it here, in our spot. For doing it in private. Thank you for waiting until I was ready… thank you for pre-asking me before you proposed.” She leans back in my arms and her eyes are brilliant diamonds, sparkling with happy tears. “Thank you for being you. I couldn’t have dreamed of a better person to go through life with.”
I brush my hand over her cheek, emotion making it hard to speak. “The ring is upstairs. I should have brought it with me.”
“I’ll put it on for dinner,” she says. The ring has a family diamond in the center, surrounded by tiny blue sapphires, on a platinum band. She’d come with me when I opened the family safe and had given me her input.Partners,I think. I want her to love the ring she’ll wear for years to come.
“Wait,” she says, “did you do this just to get out of celebrating your birthday tomorrow?”
I chuckle, and she smacks my chest, making me laugh even harder. “No,” I say. “It was just to get us here without you being suspicious.”
“You succeeded,” she says, her smile radiating happiness. It’s my favorite expression. “But don’t think you’re getting out of the waiters singing for you tomorrow.”
“Sadist,” I say.
Her smile softens. “I can’t help myself, when it comes to celebrating you. You’re the best person I know.”
I brush her hair back.She said yes.The rush is a heady one, even if I’d suspected, had hoped, had known deep down that she’d accept.
“Come here,” I murmur.
We kiss in the empty spa, sitting there intertwined, in front of the wide expanse of the lake and the sun slowly setting. The path here had been winding, both for her and for me, and so damn long. The best thing would’ve been to meet over a decade ago. But the second-best thing?
That’s this, right here. Building a life together… and savoring every moment along the way.
