TWENTY-TWO MONTHS LATER
TWENTY-TWO MONTHS LATERI"ve been looking forward to celebrating Ivy"s birthday in New York City for a long time. I"ll be thirty-one in four months, and this will be my first time traveling to the East Coast. I"m not sure who"s more excited about this trip, but when she sees what I have planned for her special day, it"ll be a moment neither of us will forget.
For the first time in my life, I"ll be dropping down to one knee and asking the love of my life if she"ll be my wife.
IVY
IVYMost people do a bar crawl or go partying on their twenty-first birthday, but I couldn"t be less interested in that. Instead, I"m in the Big Apple with the man I"ve crushed on for half of my life.
“I can"t believe I"m inside the infamous New York Public Library!” I whisper-shout as Ka
