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She laughed. “I love you … so much. I need to ask, though, why now? We’ve had so much going on and so little time to deal with everything. Why now?”
“I intended to ask you to marry me today because your house closed and that chapter of your life was over. I wanted to start this new one immediately. I want to wake up every day with you; I want to go to sleep every night with you. I never want to be without you in my life. Whynotnow?”
They walked along a different path and Mary and Harry showed them flowers they’d blended for their parents and siblings. The love and care shown with each color pairing and the meaning behind made her speechless.
They meandered back to the house and Mary suggested they stay for supper.
26
After a wonderful dinner with his mom and dad, he was more than ready to take Sam home and celebrate in private. He rubbed the back of his neck and rotated his head.
“Having second thoughts, Gray?” she smirked.
“No. I just have a funny feeling. It’s probably nothing, but it hit me when we got into the SUV. It’ll pass.”
Sam looked around, craning her neck to see anything suspicious. Everything seemed normal. Reaching over, she rubbed his arm while admiring the sparkling ring on her finger.
“I get that sometimes, too. Just in case, you’d tell me if you were having second thoughts, right?”
He glanced at her, a grin on his face, “No second thoughts about us, baby. And, I would tell you if I did have them. So, no worries about that, okay?” He twisted to check the left lane before moving over, then smoothly navigated the ramp merging them onto the highway.
“Okay. It’s just—“
BAM! They were hit from behind—not hard—enough to make the SUV swerve. He yelled, “Hang on!” He righted the vehicle and turned on his right-turn signal to move to the side of the road.
“Shit, that wasn’t an accident! Hang on, baby!”
He tapped the Bluetooth button on the dash. The operator responded. “Nine-one-one, what’s your emergency?”
He watched in his mirrors and sped up, switching lanes.
Sam yelled, “My name is Samantha Powell and my fiancé and I are driving a black Cadillac Escalade on Highway 41 heading north. We’ve been hit from behind twice by a vehicle that seems to want us off the road.”
“Okay, Ms. Powell, can you see the car that’s hitting you?”
She turned to look behind them. Bam! They were hit again. “Yes.” She craned around to peer behind them.
Gray gripped the steering wheel as he continued to watch his mirrors. The dark SUV pulled into the lane behind them. “Hang on!” he yelled. BAM.
The operator responded, “Can you tell me the make and model of the vehicle hitting you?”
“It looks like a Chevy Tahoe,” he informed the dispatcher. “Dark blue or black.”
“What’s your current location?”
He switched lanes, pulling in front of a car and then slid into the far right left lane, passing a semi. “We just passed the Mason Street exit, and we’re still heading north.”
The Tahoe pulled alongside them in the middle lane of the three-lane highway, leaving the semi he’d passed behind it. Glancing into his rearview mirror, he had no one behind him, so he slowed his vehicle to let the semi pass. As he scooted behind the semi, he saw the Tahoe move into the far-right lane he’d just vacated. He stepped on the gas and moved alongside the semi, quickly gaining speed.
The dispatcher offered support. “Take the Shawano Avenue exit, Mr.—“
“Kinkaide.”
“Mr. Kinkaide, take the Shawano Avenue exit. Pull into the grocery store parking lot at the bottom of the ramp. A police unit will meet you there.”
“Got it.” He navigated in front of the semi once more, the driver slowing to let him in. He pulled into the far-right lane to enter the exit ramp; the semi then sped up keeping the Tahoe on its left and unable to pull over in time to make the ramp.
Sam yelled, “I hear sirens! Is that for us?”
