Summer of Fire and Heart-4
163 Words
She looked from his eyes, down to the ring box, and back. She opened her mouth, but nothing came out. After her third attempt, she just nodded. He had to hold her hand steady so that he could slip the ring on it. It looked far better there than he’d imagined possible.
He had to duck to kiss her as she kept staring down at it.
When at last she looked up at him, he had to struggle to find his own voice.
“My second question, and this is the important one…”
A look of worry slipped into her eyes and she clamped down her grip on his hands.
“We both learned so much this summer,” he rubbed a thumb over the ring on her finger. “How, my beloved Ashley, do you feel about learning river rafting next summer?”
Her laughter, as sparkling bright as the sky above the Montana Wilderness, told him that he’d learned how to do this exactly right.
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