Break Me Slowly(57)

It was dated the same day I’d met Adam.

My gaze snapped to him.

“I knew, Katelyn. I just want you to know that. Know that I have no intention of letting you go.”

“A-are you proposing to me with a piece of paper?” I was in so much shock, I didn’t know what to do, or how to react.

He grinned. “Kind of.” He pulled a massive diamond ring out of his pocket and sank to his knees. “Or I could use this.” He lifted the shiny ring in one hand and gripped my hip in the other.

“Katelyn. I’ve never bowed to anyone, but I will gladly live the rest of my life on my knees before you, if you’ll be mine. I wanted you to know that this isn’t a game, or a ploy to get you back. This is real. And it has been since the moment I saw you.”

His thumb rubbed over my hipbone. “Katelyn Gunn, will you marry me?”

I sank to my knees and kissed him with all the breath I had left. “Yes,” I whispered between sobbing and peppering his mouth with kisses over and over. “Yes.”

He wrapped me in his arms. “I love you, Katelyn.” And I believed him. Our pasts couldn’t hurt us anymore, because we had let them go, and reached for each other instead. Yes, we still had a long way to go and a lot to deal with once the light of day hit, but for now, we were happy.

And there, on our knees, submitting to one another, Adam and I finally found our middle ground.



The End