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“Do you still love me?” she asks. How could she ever ask me that? It hurts to think she could ever doubt my love for her. My throat feels thick, and my voice comes out gravelly. “I could never stop loving you.” A relieved laugh cuts off her sob, and gentle hands bracket my face. “I love you, Lonan.”
The exhale that leaves my lips takes with it the weight that’s been heavy on my shoulders for months. “Say you’re mine.” My lips take hers, and the kiss we share is fierce. Demanding. It pulls at my soul. It rips me apart and mends me back together. She sighs so softly, and everything is right in the world again. “I’m yours.”
My heart pounds, she takes my breath away. It’s everything I’ve wanted to hear. “You don’t ever have to apologize. I know how hard you’ve been working to accept yourself and accept love. That’s all I’ve ever wanted, baby. For you to let me love you the way you deserve to be loved.”
“Listen closely to me. If you think what we’re doing right now is just a hookup, you need to open those big gray eyes and
look around. I’m all in with you. So I want all of you in return. You are the only woman who will ever own my heart, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to let you tear it apart either. I won’t accept anything less than forever from you. Do you understand?”
Lifting herself on her elbows, she gives me a soft smile.
That smile weakens my knees, but my love for her blooms in my chest when I see the sparkle in her stormy eyes.
“You take me so well, baby.” “You give it to me so well,” she pants. I give her a cocky smile and shake my head. I’m the luckiest man alive.
My bouquet is made of mostly creams and greenery from the woods. Still, there’s one magenta peony I’ve added, reminiscent of the flowers from Lonan, and a reminder that no matter how far apart, we will always find each other again.
“I will love you forever,” he says against my lips. “Forever,” I promise. No matter the circumstances, we would always find each other. This love existed before I forgot, before I remembered, and before we came to be what we are in this moment.
