He kept his arms crossed, but backed it up with the smile he was feeling building deep inside him. “You’re probably going to want the ring I had in my pocket that night.”
She looked at him aghast, “You bought me a ring?”
“Uh-huh.”
She covered her mouth in horror, “That same night? Oh god, I’m so sorry. I never thought anyone would ever do something like that for me.”
“I did. Doofus that I am. And even worse?”
“What’s worse than that?”
Sam rose and circled around the table, then knelt and took Luisa’s hands.
She looked into his eyes and he knew he was lost. Happily lost.
“Even worse,” he confirmed. “I love you so much that I can’t imagine life without you.”
The smile that broke out on her face was accompanied by a different type of tears. Then she giggled. A bright merry laugh that
