Looking away, he nods his head as he grins. “Actually, since you brought it up…”
Confused as he lets me go, I ask, “Huh? Brought what up?”
He doesn’t answer me. Instead, he takes my hand and I watch as he slides a very large diamond ring down my left ring finger. When I look up, his eyes are blazing into mine as he falls down to one knee. “Marry me,” he demands. “Because that’s how this can get better.”
“Now?” I ask, flabbergasted, and he gri
ns.
“Yeah, now. Let’s go,” he says, standing up and shaking his head, and I beam back at him.
I know he’s joking, but I’m not. “Okay, let’s go.”
“Wait, what?” he asks, confused, looking at me. “I was joking! A yes is all I want.”
“Well, I’m not joking, and you’re getting more than a yes. You’re getting me as your wife, today,” I tell him.
“What? We can’t have a wedding today! We don’t have anything planned!”
“I don’t need to plan anything. I don’t need the dress, the flowers, or any of that crap. I need you,” I stress, framing his gorgeous face with my hands. “I love you, and I want to marry you right this second, in our jerseys, because you’re right, that’s how this moment can be better.”
Eyeing me, he wraps his arms around me and he grins. “Really?”
“Really, let’s go.”
“Now?”
“Now,” I answer, and his grin grows even more, his eyes shining with love for me.
Squeezing me tightly, he whispers, “You never cease to blow me away, Baylor Irene Moore.”
“Good, because I plan to do that a lot,” I inform him.
“I can’t wait,” he says, his lips moving against mine. “I love you, Baylor.”
“I love you, too.”
And as he kisses me, I realize I just reached a lot of my goals.
Make it into the NHL. Check.
Make my dad proud. Check.
Find the love of my life. Check.
Tell him I love him every day. Check
I don’t have the Stanley Cup, but I will, and I’ll have Jayden with me to do it, which is probably the coolest thing in the history of ever. But when I open my eyes, meeting his heated green gaze, I feel like I already won the Cup.
Jayden is my Cup.
My greatest win.
And I know no one can take him away from me.
He’s all mine.
As I am his.