Her mouth trembled. "Tyler..."
I leaned in and kissed her. Soft. Careful. Like something long lost finding its way home.
She froze for one second. Then she kissed me back.
Some moments don't need fireworks to change your life. Sometimes all they need is two people finally arriving at the same place at the same time.
"You saved me long before you came back into my life."
That was a month ago.
Charlotte quit the delivery job two weeks later, not because I asked her to rescue herself but because she finally saw she had other options. She and her brother moved in, and her brother likes me, which I consider my greatest professional achievement.
Last Sunday, I asked her to marry me.
She said yes before I had finished the question.
Now Aunt June is pretending not to cry over flower samples, and Uncle Ray is walking around my kitchen eating snacks he did not buy and acting like he personally invented love.
