“If we do this, you’ll have to give up everything. I can’t let you do that.”
She sighed. “Don’t you understand? You are everything. I can’t believe that I’ve been denying the greatest truth my heart has been trying to tell me since the moment we met as children.”
He couldn’t speak. Despite everything she’d said, part of him still felt like he had to refuse her. There was no possible way she was thinking things through. She would regret this, given enough time. He was sure of it.
And yet, how could he say no? She’d offered him the secret wish of his heart.
“So…will you marry me? Uncle Edward gave us his blessing.”
That, more than anything, shocked him out of the dreamlike state he’d fallen into ever since she’d emerged from the trees. “He did?”
“Yes. So…will you?” Celia asked again. H
