marry-me

When I met you _ somehow you healed me. From the inside out, the outside in. We conquered fears together, we learned, we laughed, and we loved. I swear, you caused my heart to soar more in the past few months than it has in my entire existence. My heart is whole because you chose to share yours with me, and it__ for that reason that I get down on not one, but both knees_ I knelt in front of her and gripped her hand. __nd say thank you. Thank you for saving my life, thank you for loving me enough to treasure your own, and thank you for being my strength when I had none. I__ like to think our hearts are joined _ forever entwined _ but considering that__ not technically a legal joining, I have a question for youMarry me? Make me the happiest man alive._ I opened the box revealing my mom__ ring.

I__ sure you remember our first encounter, the morning in the kitchen in North Carolina, and what a disaster it turned out to be,_ Carmine said.__hat you don__ know, though, is that as we sat like idiots in that puddle of juice, all I could think about was how beautiful you were. How beautiful you are. You were scared and confused, and I know I wasn__ helping that, but underneath it all you were just beautiful, Haven. You had me the very first time I laid eyes on you. I remember thinking later that morning you were going to complicate my life._ He paused as he laughed to himself. __nd complicate it you did. Everything I knew, everything I believed_._._. all of it went out the window. You turned me upside down and made me feel again. You saved my life, even though I didn__ realize it needed to be saved. I thought I was fine, that I didn__ need anyone else, but I was wrong, because I do. I need you. Christ, I___e grasped her chin gently and leaned forward, her eyes drifting closed as their lips came together. His kiss was sweet but there was passion behind it_._._. passion she looked forward to feeling for the rest of her life.