Wanted A Real Family(71)

Jase put the album aside and took both of her hands in his. “I’ve done a lot of soul-searching since Monday. I’m so sorry I jumped to the wrong conclusion. I think we both know why. Once before, you helped me believe in a new life and now I’m believing in one again...one where you and Amy and I can be a real family...where I can be the husband and dad I never thought I could be. I promise I will learn how to do both.”

“You don’t have much to learn,” she said, stroking his stubbornly defined jaw, her being overflowing with so much happiness it filled up the world.

“Can you forgive what I thought?” he asked in a husky voice.

“I’ve been putting myself in your shoes, seeing what you thought you saw. I probably would have reacted the same way. We want to belong to each other, Jase, and I love the idea of that.”

“And I love you,” he said with so much love she felt it through to her heart and soul. “Will you marry me?”

“Yes, I’ll marry you.” She wanted to make a life with him and be with him no matter where that led her.

Jase took her in his arms and kissed her.