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No wonder Fox seemed so distracted! Though at the moment, my giant Paul Bunyan looked more nervous than anything. It was forty-eight degrees out this afternoon, yet he had a sheen of sweat covering his forehead. He wiped it with the back of his flannel sleeve and took my hand.
“Josie, since the minute you ran over my mailbox, you’ve been the center of my universe. I tried to keep away, but something about you pulled me back like gravity. I just needed to be close to you, even if it meant hanging sheetrock on weekends and acting like having a wild duck for a pet was normal.”
“Hey.” I smiled. “It is normal.”
“Doesn’t matter. I’d have a flock of birds if it made you smile the way you are right now.”
I covered my racing heart with my hand.
Fox looked down for a long time. When he looked up, his eyes were brimming with tears. “You brought me back to life, Josie. And I want nothing more than to spend the rest of my days with you. I want to be in your stupid Christmas card, and have dumb holiday cards hanging on my walls in March. I want you to be the last thing I see every night before I close my eyes, and the first thing I see when I open them every morning. You make me a better man, and you make me want to strive to improve each day, because every one I spend with you outshines the last. So, please tell me you’ll be my wife.” He looked over at Opal and his mother, both of whom beamed with camera phones pointing at us. “If not because you love me, then to save me from having to move, because those two are recording right now, and their videos of me getting rejected will be all over Laurel Lake within thirty seconds.”
I laughed and leaned forward, pressing my forehead to his as tears streamed down my face. “I would love to marry you, Fox Cassidy.”
Fox slipped a beautiful emerald-cut diamond ring onto my finger and climbed to his feet, lifting me off the ground as he came to full height. He pressed his lips to mine. “I love you, doc.”
“I love you, too. But you do know this is going to be our Christmas card, right? You down on one knee. It’s like I’ve come full circle. I dreamed about a fairytale life in Laurel Lake since I was a little girl. Now you’ve given it to me.”
“I’m pretty sure it’s you who’s given it to me, babe.” He winked. “But I’ll give you something even better later.”
THE END
