Maya's POVI had not expected him to be on one knee.Not because a proposal was beyond the range of what Alex had been capable of this week.... it had been a week of extraordinary things and I had learned, with increasing evidence, not to set a ceiling on what he might arrange. But because he had already proposed. He had done it on a bedroom floor at midnight with shaking hands and a ring, and I had said yes, and the ring was on my finger.I had not expected him to ask again...I turned because I had been looking at the arch and the people assembled beneath it and had felt him move behind me.... He was on one knee.The small velvet box in his hand.Open.I did not manage to do anything with my face.The tears arrived before he had said a word.... They carried the weight of everything that had tried to prevent them."When we first got married," he said, "we carried too much pain and too many secrets."His voice was low but firm"We loved each other," he said. "But we
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