HighonYou (10 page)
Authors: Sky Robinson
Two months later Crystal sat in Blake’s kitchen on a
barstool at the counter, watching him cook some fancy pasta dish with shrimp
and wine. He was an amazing cook. It wasn’t surprising; he was amazing at
everything he did.
Blake poured white wine into a glass and handed it her. Then
he dished up two plates of pasta and set one in front of her and the other
right beside it.
“You spoil me.”
“Yep.” He grinned and walked around the counter to sit next
to her. “And I’m never going to stop so you better get used to it.”
She liked the sound of that but didn’t know if he really
meant it or if his words were just an exaggeration.
Crystal couldn’t imagine a man like Blake wanting to spend
his life with a girl like her but he made it clear regularly that she was the
only one he was interested in, the only woman he wanted.
At least for right now.
“I have something I want to ask you.” He looked nervous as
he dug into his front jeans pocket.
“Okay.” His nervousness made her nervous and she swallowed
hard.
“Crystal, I love you and I want to spend the rest of my life
with you.” He cleared his throat and paused.
This wasn’t really happening, he wasn’t really saying these
words, asking for forever with her.
Tears came to her eyes and her throat clenched up, not
letting her respond at all.
Blake held a silver band with a huge, sparkly, square
diamond in a shaky hand. He moved it toward her.
“Will you marry me?” He looked into her eyes.
It
was
happening, she couldn’t see, couldn’t breathe.
“But what about my drug-mule past? What about your job?” She
wanted so badly to say yes but she couldn’t let him throw everything away for
her. She loved him too much to do that.
“My boss knows and accepted it, the guys that I work with
never saw you, don’t know what went down. It’s all yesterday’s news and no one
cares anymore. But even if they did, I wouldn’t let that stop me. I love you
too much to let anything get in the way.”
“Really?” The tears flowed now, she couldn’t stop them. Her
cheeks were wet and her jaw shuddered.
“Yes really.” He grabbed the ring between two fingers and
stared at it before he looked over at her again. “So…will you marry me?”
“Yes.” Crystal squeaked out the one word and her heart tried
to soar right out of her chest. She never expected this, never expected anyone
to offer her forever, but she sure wanted to spend her forever with the one man
she truly loved, trusted and respected more than any other person on this
planet.
“Good.” Blake let out a relieved breath and slipped the ring
onto her finger with a shaky hand.
“Yeah, good.” She grinned, knowing she was going to be Mrs.
Blake Sierzan, the luckiest woman in the world.
Sky is a recovering adrenalin junkie, giving up her
skydiving and motorcycle riding habits (for now anyway), but is holding tight
to snowmobiling, flying small airplanes and water skiing. She tries to add a
little balance to her life with the more tame pastimes of cooking, gardening
and running. Sky has worked as a lifeguard, casino cashier, Forest Service
roads maintenance crew, cocktail waitress and teacher, but is now happy to be
writing so she can make the characters in her books do all the crazy things she
thinks up instead of trying them out herself. Sky lives in the Midwest and
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High on You
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