AllFreeNovel
Share Us
“With what? You’re already all in.”
“I have one more…” He winks at me and then reaches into his pocket and lays a little velvet ring box on the table. “I raise you one engagement ring.”
Everything blurs and my ears ring.
My close my eyes as hands grab around the table to steady myself. And when they open, he’s kneeling in front of me. In the background, everyone is gasping, except for my brother.
What is going on?
“Kiara, I have known you for what feels like my whole life, and in those years we weren’t together, not a day went by when I didn’t think of you. You have brought out the best in me, when I thought to make it in this world, I had to bring out the worst. You have changed my life in every way. And you make each and every day, new and exciting, and I never know if today will be the day you push me off my balcony.”
Everyone laughs around us, but all I can see his face.
“So please, will you marry me. And make me the absolute happiest man in the world. Who, for some inexplicable reason, had been blessed with the most incredible amount of…”
“Luck,” I finish for him.
And when I finally say yes, even though the sounds of cheers drown out what he whispers to me as he slides on the rings and pulls me into his arms, I can’t imagine anyone else ever feeling happier than I do.
