Yes
The words hung in the air, sinking slowly into my mind as my heart tried to catch up. Ciara's face was set with a kind of raw, vulnerable anticipation I'd never seen before. Her voice, those words… everything was so unexpected, so beautifully overwhelming.
She wanted to marry me. Ciara...the Ciara who had once been known as the heartbreaker, the wild spirit who rarely took anything too seriously, had looked at me tonight with eyes so deep and steady that I could see the truth reflected back at me.
She meant every word. A part of me thrilled at the thought, while another part the one that knew we'd only been together three months whispered that maybe this was too fast, too soon.
But was it?
I searched my heart, diving through the tangled, beautiful mess of feelings Ciara stirred in me. We'd been through so much in such a short time, each moment filled with a depth I'd never known before.