Arielle’s POV
I didn’t know what to say so I stared at him, wide-eyed with my jaw hanging open. I knew we had flirted with the possibility sometime in the past but this was unexpected. He just sprung the question on me without batting an eyebrow.
I was hoping we’d have the time to sit and discuss our future when I was done with medical school as we had always planned but this….
“Say something, Arielle.” Ethan smiled at me but I could detect a hint of tremor in his voice. “The silence is rather uncomfortable.”
“What do you want me to say?” I forced myself to blurt out. “I wasn’t expecting this to happen.”
“I was going to wait, to discuss it in detail with you like we’ve always planned but I was getting rather impatient,” Ethan began, I could feel the conviction in his voice. “Hearin
