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“Go,” she whispers, and Cody pushes me up to my feet I climb down the barriers cluas if I’le pair of eyeballs in the States watching me

The h to Danny, he laces my waist with one arm and pulls me into him “This here,” he raises the trophy in their with one hand, “I owe to this woman”

The crowd claps and shouts, and it takes almost a minute for the commotion to die down

“But you knohat?” Danny continues “Although I wanted this trophy for a long, long time… Now that I have it, I discovered that I had already won the big prize - Fiona’s heart”

He passes the trophy to one of his teaht in the eyes I look back at hi what to say - or how to say it -, and then he does so at all

He goes down on his knees

“Will you h the stadium as someone hands me him a small velvety box He snaps it open, and an enorleams inside

The whole stadiuht now is the steady pulse of my heart I openover

“Yes! Yes, I will!” I cry out, going down tohi to choke down a sob I don’t think I’ve ever been happy enough to start crying, but here it is - I’ht now

The stadiu I can’t even ht now, the whole States - if not the world - is seeing Danny propose to er And now the whole world also knows that I’m the happiest woman on Earth

“Let’s get out of here,” Danny tellsme up froht onto hie

“Where are you going? You need to be here for the celebration, Danny!” The league’s co after us Without even bothering to slon, Danny’s reply is a quick one

“We’re going to do our own celebration,” he says, looking back over his shoulder at the commissioner

“I love you,” I tell him as he walks inside the stadium’s tunnel entrance

“I love you too,” he whispers, the long shadows inside the tunnel wrapping themselves around us