Page 109 of Rekindle My Heart
He slid to the floor and took her kneeling position. “I’m not the same stupid boy I was in our youth. I see with clear eyes it’s you. It always was. Even when I didn’t want to see it. I was afraid I’d lose you. And I did.”
“Never again.” She lowered to face him eye-to-eye and flung her arms around him. Tears leaked from her beautiful eyes, running down those soft cheeks, that trembling chin.
He kissed the wetness from her face and touched his forehead to hers.
“Erica Randall, I will be your friend, your lover, your gaming partner. Will you be my wife?”
She nodded against his as she watched him through watery eyes. A soft “yes” slipped from her lips.
A screech of the microphone cut through the room. “Gentleman, time for the garter toss.”
Ryan kissed her. A brush of lips that promised more. “I’ll be right back.”
Her brow wrinkled. “Where are you going?”
“I need to get the garter. I can’t let my gal show me up.”
She sniffed the flowers and smiled. “Go get it. I’ll be right here when you return.”
And she was.
