Adrian
It wasn't the question, or the proposal I had once dreamt of making— years ago, and even more so now after finding Lily and Asher— but it might as well have been, with how anxious I felt the longer she took to answer me. It didn't even matter that she'd just promised me I would never be alone— knowledge that sent my heart flipping in my chest and left me barely keeping from grinning like a fool.
Let me prove that you are the only one I want, always.
My words echoed louder with each passing second. So cliché, yet so true. She was the only one I wanted. The only one I would want to stand beside me. Always. I might have been late to realize that, and I had done things at many points in my life that left me undeserving of her, but if she would give me this chance—this honour— I was w
