I Still Do Page 15

  They held their collective breaths.

  He cupped Emily’s cheek with his free hand. “I hope my boy’s dream can be this man’s future, Emily. I’m so in love with you. Will you please marry me?”

  She blinked as tears welled in the most beautiful eyes on the planet. “Oh, Will. I was trying to do the Danielle Phillips thing again. You know, hoping that if I avoided you and how I felt about you it would all go away.”

  “But?”

  “But she just stole my necklace.” Her face turned in his hand and she kissed his palm. “You stole my heart. I’m going to have to be less mousy librarian and more reach-for-what-I-want woman and do something about that.”

  Oh, yeah, that sounded good. “So you will then?” he insisted. “You’ll marry me?”

  “Silly man, have you forgotten?” his one-time summer romance but now forever-woman asked. “I already did.”

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  I STILL DO

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