“I can do that,” his smile was pulling his lips, and he was trying to stop from blurting more out.
She moved to sit on his lap and stared into his eyes, “I would marry you within the month, within the week, even tomorrow if we could arrange it. I don’t need anyone else’s opinion on what is best for me or how they think you should treat me different. I am certain anyone else looking in would say I need to treat you different too and I’m so bloody sick of it.”
“Lark,” he cupped her cheek, “I love you so much.”
“I know you do. There is nothing, not a single grain of doubt in my mind concerning your love for me. I love you with my entire heart. I would do anything for you. What I wanted, more than anything, was for you to ask me to stay and not go to Houston and you didn’t and so I made exe
