Page 91 of Fake It Till We Fall
Her breath hitched, but I wasn’t done. “Harper, I am madly, desperately in love with you and no matter how much time or space there is between us, that will never change. You’re it for me. You’re mine. You always have been.”
The crowd cheered but it was merely background noise, because this was only for her.
Tears slipped down her cheek, but she didn’t bother to wipe them away. “Grayson, I?—”
“Ten!”
The countdown chant began.
Stunned, I half turned to see the projector screen at the back of the stage displaying the New Year’s countdown.
“Tell me I’m yours, too.”
“Nine…”
Harper nodded. “You know I am.”
“Eight…”
“I always have been.”
I knew it to be true. Part of me had always known it. But hearing it from her mouth hit different.
“Seven…”
I released her hand long enough to reach into my pocket. My fingers wrapped around the silver ring I’d been carrying with me for the last few days.
“Six…”
Her breath caught when she saw it glisten in the stage lights.
It wasn’t just a ring. It washerring.
“Five…”
Her hand trembled as I pulled her mittens off and slid the ring on her finger, where it belonged.
“Four…”
“This time I’m asking you to keep it.”
“Three…”
Her smile wrecked me.
“Two…”
“Forever, Grayson.”
“One! Happy New Year.”
Fireworks exploded above us, the crowd erupting with cheers and celebration for the new year—or for us. I didn’t know. And I didn’t care.
The only thing that mattered was Harper. I kissed her under the exploding sky, confident in whatever the new year would bring as long as I had the love of my life in my arms, exactly where she had always belonged.
Harper
The tiny amethystsparkled like a five-carat diamond on my finger as Grayson led me out of the spotlight. Finally. I’d neverspent so much time on a stage in my life. Let alone during one of the most emotional moments of my life.
