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Was she giving him hope here?

“Angie wasn’t your responsibility,” he said, trying to adjust his thinking, just in case Leaving a door open that he’d cohter, and he, by all accounts, was a controlling, insecure creep” He wasn’t holding anything back There was just too much at stake

“She looked to me to be the mother our mom couldn’t be We, uh, had a talk yesterday”

Shifting his weight back and forth between his heels and his toes, he adjusted his tie again Loosened it a bit Stood in that proverbial doorway, both feet in, but with the escape route open

“So, you?

??re afraid”

She nodded

“But not necessarily opposed, ive us a try?”

Biting her lower lip, she narrowed her eyes, but didn’t turn away from him “Inelse I want to be your wife, Craig That’s my truth But I’m still desperately afraid of that, too”

Through pursed lips, he watched her Looked for signs of prevarication Of uncertainty Signs that she was saying what she thought he needed to hear A sign that she was speaking out of need to tend to him, not from the truth in her heart But there were none

“Ask her to marry you already!”

Swinging around, Craig did a double take as a wo resemblance to Amelia threw back the office door that led into the suite “You both are a piece of work” The woeline Grace, ca care of others to the point of not just grabbing for yourselves Grab, for God’s sake”

“Craig, I’d like you tojust as he’d left her

He turned back to A a beautiful woman behind him, but one who didn’t shine at him as Amelia did

“Amelia Grace, will you marry me?” he asked