Chapter 5
Once we were airborne, all doubt and suspicions fell away. The sights below us were breathtaking, and Katie’s face looked like she was having a religious/s****l experience right there in the gondola.
Doubts and suspicions weren’t the only things to fall away, so did my breakfast. Katie produced a cold washcloth from somewhere and kept it on the back of my neck until my stomach settled down.
Some impression I’d made with a ring in my pocket as I barfed from being in an open-air balloon. However, I carried on with determination. I’d invested too much emotion, not to mention money, to back down now.
When we were over the headlands, heading back toward the Golden Gate, I got down on one knee and, pulling the jewelry box from my pocket, and said, “Katie, I love you. I can’t imagin
