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Then we collide like shooting stars in a mess of lips and tongues and hunger that probably isn’t appropriate for the video I’m filming for posterity.
When we pull away, I’m grinning so wide my face hurts.
“You planned it all, didn't you? You took me to the ocean so we could get engaged?” she demands.
“Had to pick a place you love.”
“There aredolphins.”
“I know. It all went off without a hitch, everything except for them butting in. Rude little pricks.”
She beams at me, and I smile back just for her.
“Just so you know,” I tell her, nodding to the cameraman. “You’re on video. The drone’s equipped with cameras on all sides.”
“What? You didn’t!” She clutches me and laughs madly before we turn. All the guys are lined up on my charter boat, Captain Juan and the rest who came along to crew it. They wave to us wildly and one guy whistles as I call, “Thanks, wingmen! I appreciate your help.”
I don’t think they can hear me, but they get it just the same.
“So, what now, fiancé?” she asks sweetly.
“Now I’d better tell your dad you said yes so he can stop worrying. He thought I only had a fifty-fifty chance.”
“What? Rude!” She bursts out laughing again and pushes her hands against my chest. “You really asked Dad?”
“Notexactly.” I grimace. “I told him I was planning on asking you either way, but I wanted his advice. Just between you and me, I think he liked that.”
“He knows how much I love dolphins,” she muses.
A dolphin surfaces on our right side then and looks at us with wickedly intelligent eyes. I wonder if they can feel the love, too.
“Nothing would make you happier, he said. After today, I’m inclined to agree.” I raise my eyebrows. “So, how’d I do?”
“You want a rating? ‘Wonderful proposal technique, excellent setting, ten out of ten, would say yes again?’”
“As long as that yes is forever, sweetheart.”
“Well, yeah. That’s what marriage is for, right?” She smiles and then her face drops. “Oh, no, I didn’t mean—”
“Forget it. That’s what marriage is supposed to be. This time, I get to do it with the right person.”
She beams like the sun.
“That’s what Dad and Eliza taught me. I was old enough to reallyknowwhen they got together, you know? I saw what their love was like—what it still is. That’s how I knew what I wanted more than anything when I finally found it?”
“Yeah? What’s that?” I nudge my nose against her neck.
“You,” she says simply.
26
A Little Vow (Destiny)
So, here’s the thing about my wedding.
Unlike some girls, I never really planned for much in my head before I wound up engaged.
I know.
