Total pages in book: 42
Estimated words: 39338 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 197(@200wpm)___ 157(@250wpm)___ 131(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 39338 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 197(@200wpm)___ 157(@250wpm)___ 131(@300wpm)
“But I want to make sure we have the right beginning. The way this started was unconventional, and I wouldn’t change a single thing about it. Not a second. I just need you to know that . . . being married to you is the best thing that will ever happen to me.” She holds out her trembling fingers, and heat presses to the backs of my eyes while I slide on the ring. “I need you to remember that we’re permanent every time you look at this hand. I need you to know I’ve got your back, every minute of every hour. You’ve got a man for life, Britta Mayfield.”
She spins around in a flash and buries her face in my chest, setting loose a happy sob that is almost drowned out by the fireworks . . . and the applause of the people who have made their way to the deck, obviously realizing what’s going on. “You’ve got me for life, too, Sumner,” she says looking up at me with shining eyes. The ones I’ll see in my children’s faces one day. The ones I’ll fall asleep thinking about every night until the end of time. “I would walk through fire to marry you.” She hiccups against my mouth, sending my heart into a tailspin. “I love you.”
“I love you, too, Britta. But all you ever have to do is walk to me. Once you’re there, everything will be right.”
“I know.”
Those words break the dam inside me, and happiness pours out everywhere, just everywhere, and I was right. Spinning Britta around beneath the fireworks while she laughs, my ring on her finger, is another “best” moment of my life . . .
. . . and there are a million more just around the corner.
THE END