The Dare That Ended Us
“Three years… three years isn’t very long… Travel is so convenient now, I can come see you, and I can wait…”
“Wait for what?”
Her voice hardened with a resolve I hadn’t heard before.
“Nathan, when you come back, let’s get married. Okay?
“Or… we can get married now.”
I froze, letting the flood of emotions spill out.
“Clara, do you know? Actually, for your birthday this year, I hid a diamond ring in the cake to propose to you.
“But it got interrupted. That night, Ethan got rear-ended.
“You panicked so badly, I had no choice but to follow you to check on him. When we arrived, he hadn’t even been scratched.”