“I’ll be right back.” Trey walked to his SUV, but Alexis didn’t pay much attention, as she was in a battle over who could swing the highest.
Harper won, but only because Alexis let her. She’d been a champion back in the day.
She used her feet to come to a stop and was about to jump off when she saw Trey standing in front of her. He held a red ball, much like the one they’d fought over twenty years ago.
“What…”
Before she could finish, he reached for her hand, and pulled her to him, placing the red ball between them. “Twenty years ago, this is where it all began. I was a young boy who knew nothing about sharing. Had I known then what I know now, I would given you this red ball because your happiness means more than my own. But there is one thing I want to share with you forever.”
As he dropped to one knee the ball fell to the side, and she realized what was happening. In complete shock and overcome with sheer happiness, she was speechless and covered her gaping mouth with one hand.
“Thirty-years ago, my dad used this same ring to propose to my mother. I never knew he’d held onto it in hopes I would one day find a woman as great as my mother to love. You are all that and much more, Alexis. You make my life better just by being in it. You are kind and generous and loyal and compassionate. Will you please marry me?”
“Yes,” she answered through tears, honored to be his future wife, and wear the ring of his beloved mother.
Her family clapped and cheered. Trey rose to his feet and slipped the platinum band with three diamonds on her hand.
“Perfect fit,” she murmured.
“Just like us.”
