"Jennifer Downs, I would be honored if I could take your breath away for the rest of your life. I would love to wake up next to you each day and grow old with you. I promise to love you until my dying day. I swear to protect you and make sure you're safe, argue with you until our throats go raw, hold you when you're sad, kiss you when you're mad, and laugh with you when you're happy. I want to experience life with you, Miss Downs, forever."

I dropped to my knees in front of him.

"Miss Downs," he whispered. "Will you be Mrs. Finnley Felton and love me like tomorrow will never come?"

Love was beautiful. Love was complex. Love was real and incredibly powerful, and at that moment, I had never felt anything as heart shattering as that. I needed him as much as he needed me, and nothing, or no one could ever take that away. Kidnap me, abuse me, say horrible fucking things, but my love would never waver. I might stop breathing, but my love was so powerful that it would last forever.

As I stared into his green eyes, I had no doubt that I was meant to be with him. I belonged to him, and he would finally belong to me. Every path that I had taken after leaving Texas had led to Finnley. A divine intervention brought us together, and I was grateful, and happy, and in love. Love. There was no emotion greater than that.

"I love you, Mr. Felton," I whispered and continued to kiss him. He looked into my eyes and wrapped his arms around me. I smiled and continued to kiss him repeatedly.

"Well?"

"Yes. Forever."

With a shaky hand, he slipped the ring on my finger, and although it felt foreign, it was right. Finnley fucking Felton would be mine forever, and I would be his. Together, we would be one. Together we would be happy. Together we would live the rest of our days.

"I love you more, soon-to-be, Mrs. Felton."

THE STORY WILL CONTINUE WITH NO LONGER WEAK, SET TO RELEASE IN 2014.