"Will you marry me, Mr. Alderic Hudson?"
I said, removing the velvet box from my pocket and he stood there, frozen. He didn't even blink once. I rose my brows when his silence only continued further.
"Alderic?"
"Hm?" He hummed, almost in trance and I winced at how the stones underneath my knees were hurting me. It was hard to get down on the knees.
It takes a lot more courage than I had originally thought.
"Will you marry me? Make me the luckiest man alive in this world?" I repeated and he bit his lips, chuckling softly as he too bent down on his knees, to my level.
"You really are planning to kill me tonight, aren't you? First, gifting me a family. A family to a man who has lived alone, like an orphan. Then you decided to take me here, on the cliff, to this beautiful place and
