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This woman was a drug for me. I pulled her closer. “I’m not going to lie, Mel. It was hard to leave you earlier.”
She pulled back, and sympathy washed over her face. “I’m sorry.”
“All that matters is you’re back.”
A smile appeared on her lips, and she dropped to one knee. “I might be crazy, but let’s make this official.”
Shock coursed through me, and I pulled her back to a standing position. “Oh no. No, no, no.”
She laughed. “What?”
It was my turn to get down on one knee. “In our story, with our grandchildren, it’s not going to be you that proposed. No way.”
“Our grandchildren?”
My heart raced. “I… Sorry. I know you have Will, but if you’ll have children with me…I mean, if you want to…”
Her face turned serious. “I’d love to have children with you.”
“You would?”
She laughed. “I would.”
I stood and hugged her.
She held me and then pulled back. “But I need to be honest with you, I’m not sure if I still can. I mean, it’s been so long. I’ve been on birth control, and I just don’t know.”
“Don’t worry, it’ll all work out.”
She leaned up and kissed me. “Yes, it will.”
I put my hand into my back pocket and extracted a small box, opening it to expose a ring. “This is my mother’s.”
Her hands went to her mouth, and her eyes widened. “What? Your mother’s ring? Are you serious?”
Tears filled my eyes. “Melody Ray Harris, will you marry me?”
She nodded rapidly. “Yes! Yes! Yes!”
I picked her up and spun her around, laughing. She laughed, too. Eventually, I put her down and pressed my lips to hers. Once again, we were kissing, soaring, flying. The past and the future mixed together in a perfect symphony.
When we finally stopped kissing, I took the ring out of the box and placed it on her finger.
She was crying. “It’s perfect.”
“I knew it would be.”
She stared at it for a long time. “Why didn’t you give this to Sheila?”
Her question took me by surprise. It must’ve shown on my face.
“Not that you had to. I’m just surprised.”
I swallowed hard, staring into her eyes. “I was going to give you this ring that Christmas, when I was supposed to see you and before everything went weird.”
She sucked in a breath. “Oh my gosh. I ruined everything.”
“No, you didn’t.” I took both of her hands. “What my grandfather said was horrible. I can see everything that happened, how confusing it was for you, and I’m sorry about it all.”
