Zach I wanted to pretend I wasn"t nervous about this, but f**k—I just was. Poppy and I had been dating for six months, and piece by piece, I"d torn down all her walls, shown her day by day that I was going to be there for her and Connor, that I wasn"t going to get scared off or disappear on her like the men in her past. All of the grand declarations and love poems in the world wouldn"t have proven my allegiance. Poppy was a take-action kind of girl, and so the only way to convince her I would be here, was to show her day by day. I"d met her parents, and she"d met mine, and now the next step was asking her and Connor to move in with me. I wasn"t quite sure how Poppy would react, but I knew I was ready. The idea of waking up to her each morning and sharing our bedtime routine together ma

