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She’d always been very spiritual, and soht Watching those luminous balloons float up in the hundreds as they stood with the rest of the crowd in the breathtaking region of Chiang Mai had been so fragile and breathtaking to witness Had Adam felt it, too?

A Thai couple they’d befriended earlier had invited them to a local dance, and when they arrived, they found it was filled withchildren, all dressed immaculately in suits for the boys and white frilly dresses for the girls Thank goodness Gabrielle had thought to listen to the dress code their friends had h they stood out in theand shy pre-teens, they felt like they were part of the beautiful innocence that permeated the decorated hall It had to be some kind of prohtfully gorgeous, and so were the kids

“I can’t believe this is our first dance – well, since that one night fourTheir hands were linked in between them as they waltzed to the ballroom music

Ada her to face hiain smoothly “Your moves have decidedly iood teacher,” he said huskily, as they met for a ain

His eyes grew sazed at her in her simple white dress that hs “You’re beautiful,” said Adam deeply

Gabrielle had heard hi about this momentapart from their linked hands as they danced, yet Gabrielle could not have felt more impacted by his intensity

When he looked at her and sht that nothing could ever pull the dream? Now that there were just a few days left of their trip, could he be feeling the same sense of desperate hope that they could make this work?

How strange that Gabrielle was even more confused than she had been before they left for their Thailand trip She’d thought she’d had it all figured out in her head but now she wasn’t sure Adaenerous He opened up to her in ways she’d never expected They still had a long way to go, but suddenly being with him didn’t seem so impossible Neither did their differences feel as insurmountable as they used to

He’d been full of surprises all through their holiday, but on their arrival back home, it seemed like he’d saved the best for last He drove theates of a one-storyout of the car, Gabrielle turned to Ada eyes

He simply smiled “Shall we look inside?”

As he led them into each corner of the awesome spread, Gabrielle could barely take in the whole scene Six bedrooerated wine cellar, and a drea There was also the swiarage

She loved the pristine thee, with splashes of color in the s and accents in each room

“I bought the place, then had it renovated over the past couple of et it finished in tih you can sie whatever you want”

Gabrielle turned around to face hi her head in confusion “Adam, what…?”

“I think we should ether,” he said plainly

She just gasped again, staring at hi hand on her abdoh her waistline hadn’t totally disappeared yet She wasn’t sure, but she felt like she’d already started to sense the baby’swhen she woke up and saw a new change in her body seemed mirrored in Adam’s eyes as they scanned her all over

“This is the part where I ask you what you want, but I want you to hear hed deeply and then let his hand fall reluctantly froood with declarations, so I’ll keep it simple It tookaway s out of pride I just want to be with you”

As he spoke, he sought out her hand in his left and linked their fingers “So no ht toon me, on us”