I turned around in time to see him kneeling in the middle of the floor. “I took you for granted ten years ago. I knew you were the one for me then, but I just let you hang in the background while I chased my dreams…always assuming you’d wait there in the shadow of my spotlight. Then, I get this second chance with you, and because I was too chickenshit to own up to my insecurities, I let you go again.” Tears were already threatening to fall down my face as his eyes brimmed with love. I stepped closer to him while his throat bobbed up and down. “I didn’t do all this right…I didn’t mean to ignore
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