“Honey, I’m home.” My heart begins hammering as I hear Serena’s sing song voice. “Where are you? Oh, and what smells so good? I didn’t know that you were ordering a take out for us today.”
“Oh, very funny,” I laugh back, trying not to let my nerves blast out obviously. “I cooked.”
I’m sure that Serena is about to make another joke, but the words fall apart on her lips when she walks into the dining room and she sees the romantic set up that I have been working on all afternoon. “What is this?”
“Serena Galloway…” I was going to wait a few moments before I landed the big question on her, but the look on her face is giving me the instincts that I should do this right away. I am all about following my gut these days. I drop to one knee in front of her and chuckle as her eyes pop wide with shock. “I love you. I can’t even find the words to express to you how much I love you. It completely consumes me every single day and fills me with warmth every time I look at you.” Tears bubble down Serena’s cheeks, making me overly happy as well. My smile stretches right across my face as I continue speaking. “You are the best thing that has ever happened to me, Serena. I honestly can’t even begin to imagine what life would be like without you. You are beautiful, sweet, friendly, just the best person that I have ever met in my life. I love you from the bottom of my heart and I want to make our love official. I want to scream it from the roof tops that I am yours and you’re mine. I want to… to…” Oh God, my speech is flowing away because the intensity of this moment is more overwhelming than I was expecting. “I want to spend the rest of my life making you happy, making your life incredible, I want to be everything to you, Serena, just like you are to me.” I suck in a couple of breaths before I continue, trying to get my head in order. “So, what I really want to ask you, Serena Galloway, is if you will make me the happiest man alive and agree to be my wife?”
“You want to marry me?” Serena half screams. “You really want to be my husband?”
“Of course, I do. I have wanted to marry you forever…”
“I will marry you,” she interjects. “Yes, yes, yes! Oh my God, yes of course I want to marry you…”
I slide the ring onto her finger, loving how awesome it looks there on her hand, and then I jump up to greet her, to kiss the woman who has officially become my fiancée. Her lips feel just as wonderful against mine as they did the first time we shared a kiss. Nothing has changed really, it has just got deeper and so much better. I know that will only continue after we become husband and wife as well. We can only get better.
We will have children, a family of our own, with Maria living close by all the time. My business will continue to grow with my wife helping me out, continuing to be the integral part of the company that she has always been, and no one can disagree with that, no one can think that she has slept her way to the top, and we will continue to make one another happy. We support each other, we are a team, she calls me her hero, but she is mine as well. I wouldn’t be able to live my life without her now. We are each other’s happy ever after, and I can’t wait to continue living that.
I love this woman with every part of me, and she loves me as well. What could be better than that?