Page 96 of Dr. Off Limits

“I love you and I want to marry you,” I said.

His smile unfurled across his face. “To think, I was just lying there in the rowing boat, trying to find a way back to you.”

“And now here we are.”

“Engaged.”

He cupped my face and pressed his lips to mine in a way that was so reverent it felt like an exchange of vows right there and then on the bank of the Serpentine, overlooking the rowing boats.

“I told you things had a way of working themselves out,” he said.

“So this is what a happily ever after feels like.”

I’d never thought this kind of happiness was meant for someone like me. I knew Jacob would spend the rest of time making my life better than I ever thought it could be. We’d be in each other’s corners, as each other’s champions, cheering the other on until we were too weary to do anything other than hold each other.

Forever started now.

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