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I took his hands inrealistic but I can’t think like that I have to believe that everything will be okay I can’t think about you or any of the others, not Diana, not Danny and Mason, not even Gabriel, as dead I’ will be okay I can’t think of you dead I just can’t I love you too ht lose you I can’t lose you Do you hear me? I can’t! I can’t live without you Jonathon! If you die I won’t be able to go on-,” I ranted before he silenced rily and desperately He held the back of my head to hold me closer to hi the closeness I wanted he brought h his thin cotton shirt He bita chill run up my spine

He pulled back and looked , and you’re theperson I know,” he shook his hair out of his eyes, “There’s so tidown one knee

“Oh my God,” I said, “Oh my God”

“This wasn’t how I had planned to do this but with the circu out a little blue box, and looking deep into my eyes he asked the two scariest words you can ever be asked, “Marry me?”

I gasped

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I bent down and took his face between my hands, “Yes”

He sand hard He set round and opened the s I had ever seen

I gasped again “It’s so beautiful,” I breathed The diae and square with s the band It was siant and beyond beautiful

“I designed it for you I wanted it to be special I wanted you to think ofit on er

“I love it but I love you even ed!” I squealed This moment was surreal It had happened so fast Certainly in the blink of an eye

He sest smile I had ever seen “I can’t wait to be able to call you my wife”

“I can’t wait to

be able to call you my husband,” I said and he pickedat the dian but yet it felt so right like it was ,” I said

“I just couldn’t wait any longer I had been caring that around for ht moment I wanted it to be roht never be a right tiave me a small, shy, smile