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We were at the same rodeo stop I had met Hannah a lifetime ago. I was scheduled to be the last rider since Cole had to leave early. Nicole had an ultrasound appointment and he didn’t want to miss it. They were supposed to find out if he was getting a little bull rider or a princess.
I positioned myself on the bucking bull. The gate promptly opened. Time slowed down as the timer counted down the longest eight seconds of my life. Once the clock hit eight I hopped off. Landing on my feet before stumbling. The bull was wrangled but I fell to the ground. The crowd let out a loud gasp as I didn’t come back up.
“Oh my God, Bryce!” Hannah’s voice rang out over everyone else’s.
It took her two seconds to get lifted over the gate once the bull wasn’t a danger. Crouching down next to me her voice trembled.
“Bryce. Are you okay? What hurts, is it your knee? Where is sports medicine?”
Rising on one knee, my hand went into my pocket. Pulling a small black box from inside I looked up at Hannah’s fear-stricken face.
“Hannah, I love you so damn much. If I had known you were watching me that night I never would have lasted on that bull. You make me nervous just as much as you calm me. You are the best part of my day. Getting to wake up next to my sunshine every day has been a dream I don’t ever want to wake up from. My life was just a bunch of meaningless moments until you came along.”
Her hands rose, clasping tightly over her mouth.
“Will you please do me the honor of becoming my wife? Spending every day for the rest of our lives together. Being the mother to my children. You are the spotlight, my sunshine.”
The diamond in the box wasn’t much. It was what I could afford. Her eyes glistened as she looked from the ring to me and back down again.
“Bryce, I… it’s gorgeous.”
“Is there a yes in there? Because we kind of have an audience and I much prefer my humiliation to be from a bad ride and not the most amazing woman I’ve ever known turning me down.”
“Yes. Oh my… yes. A million times.”
*****
My eyes opened slowly; the warmth of Hannah’s body no longer next to me. Fisting the sheets, I rolled over to grab my phone. Where the hell was she? There on my phone was a missed text.
Wifey: yes, I changed my name in your phone and I ran out to grab some breakfast at the store. Morgan promised she would make me something special for today.
Damn this woman. I had barely been home for an entire day, and she was already spoiling me. Anything that Morgan made would start your day off right. Flopping onto my back I stretched my legs out. My morning wood adequately tented the sheets at my waist.
“Damn, could have used some wake up sex.” I mumbled to myself just as the sound of the front door closing hit my ears.
Hannah crept back into the room a moment later, a brown paper bag in one hand, a coffee cup in the other.
“Did I wake you? I know you have to be up soon to get back over to Hunters today I was trying to let you rest after that marathon last night.”
My smile was hard to contain as I looked at this beautiful woman before me. I still couldn’t believe she said yes when I asked her to marry me a few weeks ago.
“No darlin, plus I would gladly wake up early for more time with you.”
The smile my girl flashed me was brighter than the sun itself. My own sunshine every day. She snuggled herself back under the covers with me, handing me my coffee.
“So, before you see what’s in this bag, I had an idea. You can say no because I know you may have your own ideas, but it was just something that I thought about and I really think that you…”
Cutting her off with my lips pressed against hers I laughed. “Han, what is it? I’m sure I’ll love whatever the idea is.”
“Would you want to get married here on the farm? I was at Lilly’s house the other day and the view of the fields is amazing, but she said in the winter the mountains just beyond the farm look like something out of a romance novel. I was thinking, the winter season is usually slower around here. It would give us some time to plan. I know this place that rents out heated tents and…”
My lips found hers once again. Long slow strokes of my tongue against hers was all it took for her to stop talking and melt into my body.
“Anything you want sunshine. I’d give you the world if I could. A wedding on the farm will be a piece of cake. Now, what’s in that bag you have there?” My brow rose as I tried to peek. She smiled back at me pulling out two pieces of chocolate pound cake. A new specialty item Morgan only made when I came home.
“Guess I didn’t need to get these then as way to convince you, did I?”
I shook my head. She didn’t ever need to convince me, if it was going to make her happy, she could have it. All I wanted was to make Hannah happy for the rest of her life.
