ROBERT

“Oh, my God!”

Renee's eyes widened first, then her jaw dropped.

She stared at my kneeling form, a hand covering her mouth, and the tears that'd gathered in her eyes from before trickled down her cheeks.

“Oh, my God!” she exclaimed again, and her expression changed from shock, to happiness, to disbelief.

“Y-you’re proposing,” she whispered, her eyes darting from me to the ring and back to me again.

“Yes, baby girl.” I half chuckled. “I’m proposing.”

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