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Click hereI hesitated, then handed it to her.
With trembling fingers, she began opening the small box. Once it was unwrapped, she opened it and looked at the ring within.
"I want to get married," I said, my eyes on her the whole time. "You're my best friend. You've been there for me through the worst of times, and now I want you to be with me for the best of times."
She looked at me, then back to the ring.
"But my past," she said.
"I don't care. It's past."
The tears really started flowing at that. "I don't want to hurt you, Luke. I'm . . . I'm damaged goods."
I cupped her chin and turned her head to face me.
"You made some mistakes," I said. "Sure, they were major mistakes, and they were probably mostly your fault. But that was then. Years ago. You're not that person anymore."
"But what if I am?"
I shook my head. "People learn from their mistakes," I said. "I believe that; I really do. And you've learned. You'll never do it again."
"But how can you know?"
"I just know."
She looked at the ring, then at me, then back at the ring.
I waited for her, tensing up, my chest ready to explode.
Imperceptibly at first, then more vigorously, she started nodding her head. And crying. And laughing, too.
"I never want to lose you."
I hugged her to me. "And I never want to lose you."
Finis
- COMMENTS
Beardog3255 days agoGreat story really enjoyed it!! Just happened on to your works it’s my second series I’ve read. On to the next. I agree with the other comments you should write again.
TrainerOfBimbosabout 2 months agoThis is basically an elaborate BTB story. Wife cheats, husband divorces her and gets the house/kid - she is immediately regretful. Her lover betrays her, she loses her career (of course she will because the affair will not stay secret once the FBI starts investigating) and then to top it all off, her now ex-husband saves her life, proving once again what a wonderful guy she threw away. Sure, it has less mexican whorehouses and lawsuits against corporations and such as most BTB stories, but it's still a BTB.
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The issue I have with it, despite it being so well plotted, is that a BTB doesn't really hit when the "bitch" legitimately has a change of heart. It's obvious she did - because you wrote it in that letter to Luke, which was sent way before the final crisis. Whitney identified the flaw in her character - she understood how she let things go, hell she even understood why she did what she did and how she had lied to herself and how her priorities were all wrong in her life. To put it bluntly, the Whitney at the time of that writing and definitely after it, is legitimately not the same person as the Whitney who put her work above her family and cheated on them. Not only that, the worst thing about the story line is that Whitney pays penance for her actions, but she never gets redemption. She's a cast off now and replaced by a woman who has essentially sinned just like her, but has the advantage of not having done it against Luke.
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Like I said, it's a BTB story.... just an exceptionally cruel one in an usual way. Maybe it's my fault for thinking too much, but the cruelty of it all makes me want to flip the victim/victimizer around in this situation, because if Luke was a little bit emotionally aware and less inclined to cover his feelings in being a hard ass, he'd realize that jumping into a rebound marriage with Kristin is probably a bad idea and he should probably at least really settle his relationship with Whitney and what her confession really means to him. Maybe it still ends with them apart, but what I do know is that things are not settled, despite how he is acting.
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Anyway, it was a good story, good enough to make me think about why I didn't like it - I couldn't buy the happy ending and I couldn't see Luke's actions as anything other than cruel despite how they're covered up with honor and respectability.
Anonymousabout 2 months agoTo anon of a month ago, who wasn’t sure that its the same Whitney who appears in Lazy Lemon Sun, she mentions to the MC therein that: she used to be a prosecutor, her son’s name is Kyle and that her ex-husband’s name was Luke. Pretty sure that’s sufficient for us to say its the same character.
Cheers, Jim
