Chapter 109

“Aww. You’re shy, now. I’ll do the talking. You just say one word when your turn comes.” Patrick then turned the phone to face himself. “Goose Tucker, these have been the happiest three months of my life. Would you consider making all the ones I have left even happier? Goose…will you marry me?” When he aimed the screen toward me, I felt as if I’d pass out. “Do you know your line?”

I swallowed hard. “Yes.”

Patrick jumped up and down. “He said yes!”

Technically, the word had come out of my mouth. It had come in answer to the last question posed, not the first one. Since I never clarified that, Patrick used his happy exclamation—He Said Yes!—to title the video post of the whole thing on his Facebook page.

“Rings! Rings!” Patrick got very excited about those after showing me the upload to his feed. “You can’t have a marriage proposal without rings!” He turned in a circle, then pulled up his pants, which had fallen to his ankles during the jumping, there in the middle of Cost-Mart.