Following the death of her previous husband, Poppy never thought about marriage in sincerity before. She believed it to be a fool's game for hopeless romantics ignorant to the world's evil and selfish hand. And even though she loved James, her heart could not bear another loss. These reservations read through her face as his heart sunk when realizing he had set the cart before the horse. To be fair, she had never expressed the desire to get married again, but to James, he wanted her in every way she would allow; this just did not seem to be one of them.
"What for?" She asked with a genuine shock.
"Because I love you...Because I want to wake up and fall asleep beside you. I want to talk about our days and make love in the evenings...I want you and me together indefinitely."
"You do not
