As Time Goes By: A BWWM Interracial Romance (10 page)

Her fingers trembled as she lift it out of the surrounding
scrumptious chocolates.

“Go ahead, open it,” he said, trying to encourage her to
quickly unveil his heart stopping surprise.

She flipped open the lid and gasped, clutching her breasts
with an outstretched hand. The ring was beyond spectacular, a large flawless
diamond set in heavy white gold.

“It’s quite simply the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen,”
she blurted out, unable to contain her rabid excitement as tears of joy began
to flood down her face. After fifteen years of endlessly knocking her
incredibly pretty head off the wall, it was finally going to happen.

“Read the inscription,” he asked, watching her tears as he
himself became choked with emotion.

She read the inside. “To my darling Marg, both now and
forever, the woman of my dreams.”

“I don’t know what to say,” she whimpered, blown away
completely.

“Just say you’ll marry me.”

“You know I will,” she spat back, smiling broadly as he
slipped the ring onto her finger. “I guess we were both hiding something from
each other.”

 It was now time for him to explain his reasoning over
finally making her deliriously happy. “I wanted to see if you would still
support my run for mayor even though I was non-committal as to the future of
our relationship. When you came round and continued to help me with all your
heart and soul in the campaign, even though I had made you no promises, I knew
you were a very special woman. As time went by I knew I wasn’t about to let you
slip through my fingers.”

 “As time went by? What a lovely thought, and believe me, as
time keeps going by I’ll be stuck in your grubby little white fingers forever
and ever.”

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