"Looks like it."
"That's a lot of change from the day we met."
"Good change though, right?"
She looks around the cabin, at the life we've built together here. At the home we've made. "The best change. The best life."
I kiss her again, slower this time, savoring it. "Yeah. It really is."
And as we stand there, wrapped in each other's arms, I send up a silent thank you to whatever force brought her to my field that day. To whatever twist of fate put us in each other's paths.
Because this woman? She saved my life just as much as I saved hers.
And I'm going to love her somethin' fierce for the rest of our lives.