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My heart stuttered to a stop, and I struggled to breathe as his words sank in, every sweet but gruff word of it He wants to marry me Holy shit, Jasper wants to al It definitely wasn’t the proposal I dreamed of for all these years, but those were expectations of a little girl
Those words, inelegant and spit out harshly, but they were Jasper’s words They were thefroed to hear
“That’s good to know because I want it with you too, Jasper”
There was a brief moment of relief, but it quickly passed, replaced with satisfaction because Jasper wanted what he wanted And right nohat he wanted, was ht you do”
I laughed as he slid the ring on er and leaned in to kiss me, the scent of newborn baby between us “I love you, Jasper”
“Good, because I love you too” He stole another kiss while Tholed hih it felt like the world around us had stopped, the background was filled with the sounds of a rowdy, raucous family
The kiss ended too soon, and Jasper sat besidearound me as if we’d been a couple for years as we looked out at the room filled with family
“Thank you,” I whispered “Thank you for giving me a family”
“Thank you for loving me”
I cupped his face, and looked deep into his eyes,a panic attack “I’ve loved you from the moment I laid eyes on you, Jasper Now that I have you? Just try and stopyou”
I enjoyed this ranted Times like this wouldn’t always last, they couldn’t with the way our family did business, but that made it even ht into the world Two lives being joined at any age These were the reasons, I now understood, that we ca business and shooting the shit
Just being together
Tomorroasn’t promised, not to any of us, and we enjoyed every blissful moment that happened in our lives This olden We were all happy, and today, that was enough
I didn’t knohat else I could bring to this family besides more Ashby babies, but I could do this I could , than days spent patching wounds, locking down the house, and looking over our shoulders Those days were part of being in this a family, but so were these days
I wouldn’t trade any of it for the world I got the
I got it all