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Faith was staring at me with suddenly wide eyes.
“Do you want to know what my intention is?” I asked Cash, glancing over at him. I turned back to Faith. “Would you like to know what my intention is?”
She nodded. “Can I tell you my intention first?”
I didn’t want to be bossy but I didn’t want to hear her say she had no interest in me and then I’d have to say my speech was no longer relevant. “Can we flip for it?”
“You want to flip a quarter to see who goes first?” she asked. She pressed her lips together like she was fighting the urge to giggle.
Faith giggled when she was nervous. It was fucking adorable.
“Yes.”
“Fine.” There was a jar of loose change by the drop zone at the back door. She fished a quarter out. “I’m calling heads.”
“I guess I get tails then,” I said, crossing my arms over my chest like this was an epic battle instead of a coin toss.
She shoved the quarter to Cash. “You flip it.”
He’d started this whole thing and now he looked confused. As he should. No one knew what was happening. Not a single one of us. The future Faith and MacKay were going to look back and still not know what the fuck this was.
Cash flipped the quarter in the air. He slapped it over on his hand and displayed it. “Tails. Mac goes first.”
It was about time something went my way.
I took a deep breath and started talking.
“My intention is to wait until you’re ready to say yes and put on a white dress and meet me at the end of the aisle.”
Faith made a strangled sound in the back of her throat.
I kept going before she could cut me off with a no. “I love you, Faith. I honestly, truly, deeply love you. I think you’re the most perfect woman I’ve ever met. You’re intelligent, you’re hardworking, you’re fierce, you’re sexy, and you’re all about family. You’re generous and I want to spend every second of every single day with you. I want to laugh with you, ride dirt bikes with you, go swimming with you. I want to support you in every way you need me to and I want you to be as free as you need to be.” I ran my fingers through my hair, hoped she was grasping what I was saying. “That’s why I will wait as long as it takes until you’re ready for forever. It can take three years, ten years or even twenty and I will wait, because I love you. I’ve already been waiting my whole life for you. I can go the distance.”
Other thoughts were rolling around and I wanted to polish my delivery just a little, but Faith crossed the three feet between us and jumped up into my arms. I grunted in surprise, but held her tightly.
“Yes!” she said, planting a soft sweet kiss on me. “Yes, yes, and yes.”
Faith
“What’s she saying yes to?” I heard Johnny ask. “Did he even ask her anything?”
I wasn’t sure when he had wandered in, but I didn’t pay him any attention.
“Hush,” Cash told him.
I laced my legs around MacKay’s thighs and kissed him with everything inside me. His mouth crushed mine and I closed my eyes, savoring the feel of him.
MacKay held me with one arm. He pulled back briefly and studied me. “What is happening?” he asked. “What are you saying yes to?”
“I’m saying yes to marrying you at some point in the future. I’m saying yes to us.” And it wasn’t even hard to say that now that I’d had some sense knocked into me.
“I don’t think he actually asked her to marry him. Did he?” That was Ava this time.
“Zip it,” Cash said.
“Are you sure?” MacKay asked.
I nodded. “I’d be an idiot to walk away from the man I love when he’s offering me everything I’ve ever wanted.”
