Jazz pushed through Nathan’s front door, startling his mom as she burst into the foyer.

“Saw the tweet-tweets, did you?” she asked with a satisfied smile.

Jazz nodded, unable to find any words that Nathan hadn’t written.

“Thank you for giving him another chance. He’s miserable without you.”

Jazz nodded again. She didn’t like hearing things had been hard for Nathan, but she loved knowing how much he needed her in his world. The same as her.

His mother chuckled. “Well, I won’t keep you any longer, dear. Go on. He’s in his room.”

Jazz walked up the same stairs she’d climbed so many times before, toward the bedroom that had been her home away from home, and to the person who she couldn’t picture her life without.

When she opened the door to Nathan’s room, she found him kneeling on bended knee, holding up a velvet box and regarding her with tears in his beautiful, brown eyes.

Oh my gosh. So much had changed in such a short time. Including his mind when it came to marriage, apparently. Happy tears swelled in her eyes, and she did nothing to fight them off. They’d been through the ringer—they’d been through life—together, and now they had both earned this moment. This happily ever after.

“Nathan,” she whispered, hoping that one single word held everything for him as it did for her. Nathan. Her world in two short syllables. Her happiness in one single man.

He opened the box to reveal a stunning turquoise stone set in silver. It wasn’t a flashy diamond or a priceless jewel, but the ring was the closest thing to Jazz herself in jewelry form. Nathan knew her inside out, her likes, her dislikes, her heart. He knew all of her, yet he still wanted to love her, wanted her by his side, and was willing to do anything to win her back.

He took the ring out of the box and placed it on her finger. A perfect fit.

She thought back to that first day when she had spied him through the window. Had her five-year-old heart somehow known that it had found its forever home even then?

“Jasmine Michaels,” the twenty-one year old version of that same boy said now. “I still don’t know how I feel about marriage, but I know how I feel about us. How I’ve always felt. I have a lot of work to do on myself, but I promise you I’m going to work hard to be the partner you deserve. When we’re both ready, would it be okay if I asked you to marry me?”

Not a proposal, but a promise. He wanted to earn her, but didn’t he know that he already had? That he’d always been her everything? She tried to make sense of his proposal. So simple, yet so hard to understand. Just like Nathan had been to her all throughout their teenage years as she bore the weight of her secret feelings in hiding.

“I love you so much, Nathan, but I have no idea what you’re trying to say.”

They both laughed softly.

He kissed each of her fingers, letting his lips linger longest on the one that connected straight to her heart, the one that now wore his ring. Their ring. “I love you, Jazz, and I want to get pre-engaged.”

“Like engaged to be engaged?”

She expected him to stand then, but instead, he pulled her down to kneel with him. Now they were both vulnerable, on equal footing, together.

“Exactly. I have some things to work out about my feelings toward marriage, but I am going to get there. We’re going to get there together. Then we’re going to have the most beautiful wedding anyone has ever seen, and we’re going to live that life of freedom, love, and passion together. We’re going to travel the world. Together. We’re always going to be Nate and Jazz forever. That is, if you’ll say yes.”

“You forgot the hashtag,” she joked, wondering if she was speaking from the side of her mouth as Nathan had tweeted. “But, yes, definitely. I’ll be your pre-fiancée. I’ll be whatever you need me to be, Nathan Reed.”

“Jazz, don’t you know that already? All I ever need is you.”

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Jazz Michaels learned that the hard way. She isn’t about to get burned by another guy who claims to love her. Attending one of the top MBA programs in the country, she is doing what she wants to do. But when a handsome athlete kisses her at a party, she wants more…even if she’s not looking for romance.

Chase Killion is set on playing professional baseball. With the talent and drive to achieve his goals, he’s on the fast track to stardom at the college level. The last thing Jazz wants is to stand in his way. Chase may call her his good-luck charm, but that can’t possibly last. As Chase’s dreams draw closer, will Jazz be able to fit into his future?

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