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The real surprise was when he told me he had never gotten over me. It was weird that it could make me sad and happy at the same time.
“You are dear to me, Noah. That might sound old-fashioned, but I mean it.”
“Nothing sounds old-fashioned to me.” He took my hand, and something in the air between us charged with electricity. “Ella?”
“Yeah?”
“I’m going to ask you to marry me. Not yet, but be thinking about that.”
I sucked in a long breath, and my heart pounded even faster. “Okay.”
A big smile spread across his face, and he gently kissed me. “That’s a good answer.”
I couldn’t help but laugh.
He wiped a tear from my cheek and said, “I think you feel the same way I do.”
“I do, but let’s take a couple days and let people get used to us before … well, before you ask that question.”
He laughed. “Okay, but a couple days is all you have, and I’m going to be with you as much as I can.”
“I think I can handle that.”
“I do have to tell you one thing. Well, I guess you can tell me what you think. Canyon offered me a job at search and rescue.”
“What?” My mind went years back to when everything had happened with my brother.
“I know,” he said, seeming to read my mind. He put a hand over mine. “I wasn’t sure about it, but my siblings seem to think that with my past and everything, I would be good at it.”
I tried to process his words. “I’m not going to lie. I still have old feelings about that day with my brother.”
“I do too.”
“I also know that my brother made a choice that day. I was there.” I found myself crying again.
When I looked up, there were silent tears sliding down Noah’s cheeks.
I brushed one away. “I think you’d be great at the job.”
“You do?”
“Of course I do. Plus, that means you’d be here with me permanently, right?” I felt sort of silly for asking, but I had to know.
He leaned in and pressed his lips gently to mine. “That’s the plan.”
We held each other for a few minutes. Then he pushed back and stood. “Let’s get to bed. We both have work tomorrow.”
I was surprised. “You already have work?”
He pulled me to my feet. “Yep.”
“That’s cool.”
“You mean it?”
“Yes, I do. But Noah? We can take it slow for a bit, right?”
Noah kissed my head. “Right. Right up until I officially ask you to marry me. Then we take it fast.”
