“I want you to be my wife. There’s no one else I want to spend the rest of my life with. We can live out here, you, me, our kids, and Bo. But I get it now, Anna. My decisions affect you, too. So now you have one of your own to make. Will you marry me?” I held my breath, waiting to slide the ring on her finger. Her blue eyes lit up and a smile spread across her face. She said yes.

