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It was probably the thing that kept us rounded With a quick twenty-minute commute, I didn’t feel as if ere ever far from each other Once I was kicked off the Goddesses, I started traveling when the Wranglers traveled Sam and I made sure we never spent more than three days apart That was our new rule—and we’d never broken it

I realized he had done everything in his power to make me happy He had built the studio the way I wanted He had hired a physical therapist to coly talented choreographer, despite all my protests He did what he wanted to do, but it was all because he loved me

“You know that’s why I’ht now Because ork We kno tocloser to ether Will you marry me, Natalia?”

I took in thecandles The flowers everywhere And here ere at one of our most roht together It was the night he letbubbles It was the night I had told hiht I kneas in love with him

I sighed “Today is the day I’ve waited for since I fell” I focused on the depths of his eyes “And the only reason it happened is because of you You made me put on those pointe shoes when I’d been scared to for ave led “And you bought me a plane

“Because of you, I made prima ballerina today I haveI had been too consumed by his words to really notice it until now Holy shit, it was the size of Texas

“So is that a yes?”

I threw e In every way it’s possible to say it It’s a yes”

His lips covered roaned from the intensity of his kiss It was always like this with Sam He always made my body feel fire and air at the saoing to be together for the rest of our lives I sucked at the corners of hisover his firm lips

“Try it on,” he whispered

“Oh right” My body was already otten about the ring

I held er It sparkled in the candlelight

“It’s perfect” I admired the stone on my hand

“It’s big enough, isn’t it?” he asked

“Sa” I could feel the weight of the platinuer