Gifted To The Bear: A Paranormal Shapeshifter Romance (The Gifted Series Book 1)
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“I knew you’d be phenomenal, and you were. Your mom would be smiling. She’d be so proud.”
Nodding, I buried my face in Jim’s chest briefly until I could get a sudden flood of tears under control.
Over the next couple of days, all shifters, Gifteds, and poor Marbles made a complete recovery from being zapped. Jen decided that she was never again going to let him go roaming alone. With many Angels still very nearby, it was just too dangerous.
Over the next couple of months, they attacked several more times, though now, with their numbers smaller, and with Jen’s incredible help on the battlefield, most fights only lasted several minutes before the Angels would retreat. I continued to fight, too, becoming even more adept at using my levitation power each time.
Jim and I fell deeper and deeper in love with each passing day, and I began thinking that I didn’t just want to be his live-in girlfriend anymore. I wanted to be his wife. But, to my growing disappointment, he never asked me to be, and I didn’t want to pester him about the subject, or cajole him into proposing in any way. I wanted him to want to ask me to marry him. I wanted him to do it on his own. And eventually, I decided that I was just going to be patient. If we were meant to be husband and wife, I had faith that he would propose to me at some point in time, and it would happen.
That Fourth of July, we had a carnival of sorts in Timberline. It had been Jen’s idea, and she’d lobbied hard for it, eventually getting everyone in town to agree to use some of the profits from the bar for it.
The lane between the cabins was the “midway,” and it was filled with at least a dozen fair food trucks, numerous booths featuring carnival games, and even a few kiddie rides. Dozens of picnic tables and a fairly large Ferris wheel had been set up in the cleared space in front of the bar, and it was in this area that most Timberliners had seemed to congregate by late afternoon, waiting in line for the Ferris wheel or riding it, eating fair food at the tables, or just generally milling around talking and laughing.
When Jim and I approached this area, he tossed Jen a stuffed pink flamingo that he’d just won at a baseball-throwing game down on the midway. She caught the flamingo, squealing, thanked him, and then ran off, saying she was going to go show Annie.
I looked at Jim, smiling. “You know, I really think you’re going to make an incredible father someday.”
He grinned. “Yeah? Maybe. And I would love to have kids. But I think I’d like to become a husband first.”
I forced myself to smile again, wondering just when exactly he planned on doing that. “Right. Well, I think you’ll make an incredible husband, too.”
We strolled along in silence for a little while, hand-in-hand, but Jim suddenly brought us to a stop between the picnic tables and the Ferris wheel.
“Hey.”
I looked at him, thinking he was going to ask me if I wanted to take a ride on the wheel. “What is it?”
“I want to be your husband.”
Suddenly feeling as if I had cotton in my mouth, I couldn’t answer right away. “What?”
“I wasn’t going to do this right this second, I was going to wait for the fireworks display tonight, and then I was going to do this.”
“Do what?”
“I planned it out so that the last of the fireworks is going to be an infinity symbol, with BB in one side, and PB in the other. Then I was going to look at you and say, ‘Well, what do you think?’ But I guess right now, I don’t want to wait another second before finding out your answer.”
“My answer to what? What’s the question?”
I had a little clue what it was going to be, but for some reason, I just couldn’t believe it.
Stunning me, Jim suddenly got down on one knee and took my hand, looking up into my eyes. I gasped, but the sound was drowned out by a loud collective gasp from everyone else around. Then, while Jim took a gorgeous ring with a very large princess-cut diamond from his pocket with his free hand, the carnival went quiet. All sounds of conversation and laughter stopped, and even music coming from speakers somewhere nearby was suddenly shut off. When Jim spoke, still looking up into my eyes, it was in a fairly loud, clear voice, but one that held just the slightest hint of a tremor.
“Avery Clark, will you marry me?”
Someone in the crowd, someone that sounded an awful lot like Jen, let loose with some wild peal of joy. I myself couldn’t breathe. For a long moment or two, I could only nod while my eyes filled with tears. Then, after a deep breath, I was able to manage a single word.
“Yes.”
Jim grinned. “Yes?”
I nodded again. “Yes.”
Grinning even harder, he began sliding the diamond ring on my finger.
Suddenly laughing and crying at the same time, I covered my now tear-stained face with my free hand. “Yes! I want to be your wife!”
The next thing I knew, I was in Jim’s arms. He was lifting me, spinning me around, whispering near my ear how much he loved me. The crowd standing around us was clapping and cheering; a few people were wolf-whistling. I buried my face in Jim’s shoulder, laughing and sobbing all at once.
A few days later, for an engagement present even on top of my ring, Jim gave me a gorgeous pair of diamond-and-emerald earrings to match my necklace from him. For his present, I gave him the finished painting of the two of us walking up to the bar, holding hands, the night of our first date. He said it was the most beautiful painting he’d ever seen, and just a very slight pinking of his eyes while he looked at it told me he was being completely sincere.
I soon asked him to kiss me, and he did, lifting me off my feet while he did so. I wrapped my arms around his neck, silently giving thanks for the night that government agents had showed up on my doorstep to take me away.
THE END
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