She hurried exterior and scanned the massive yard. On the opposite facet of the driveway was an enormous barn. Beth doubted they had been in there, so she headed round to the again of the home.

The very first thing she seen when she rounded the nook had been the flowers. Drew hadn’t been exaggerating. There have been flowers all over the place—rows and rows of them in a wide range of colours. Beth took a minute to benefit from the view earlier than persevering with her seek for Drew.

When she handed the small wood shed, she noticed them. They had been farther away than she thought they’d be. It might be fairly a trek at nighttime in the event that they wanted to go to the home for any cause.

Uncertain of her footing, Beth took her time crossing the grassy space that stood between her and the lads. They’d their backs to her as she approached.

“Appears severe,” Invoice stated. Beth had no thought what they had been speaking about. Have been they speaking in regards to the farm? One thing to do with Drew’s job?

Nope. He wasn’t.

“It’s. I like her.”

At Drew’s confession, Beth’s coronary heart skipped a beat. She knew then that they had been speaking about her.

Invoice nodded. “I figured as a lot. Even along with your mom’s nagging, I doubt you’d deliver a lady house to fulfill us until she was fairly essential to you.”

If Beth thought Drew’s final assertion shocked her, his subsequent one almost had her operating all the way in which again to St. Louis. “I wish to spend the remainder of my life along with her.”

She should have made a sound as a result of they each turned their heads in her course. A protracted silence adopted and by the look on Drew’s face, he knew she’d overheard.

With a refined cough, Drew’s father excused himself and left the 2 of them alone. Neither spoke instantly. What was there to say? How did she reply to that? They hadn’t even been collectively for a month but. He couldn’t love her. And he completely couldn’t be excited about marriage so quickly. They didn’t even know one another that properly.

“Beth? Will you say one thing, please?” Drew requested.

“I’m attempting to persuade myself that I didn’t simply hear what you stated.”

He seemed down on the floor after which again at her. “I do love you.”

“How—”

“I’ve beloved you for some time. In all probability since earlier than our first date. I didn’t assume you had been prepared to listen to it so . . . so I didn’t say something.”

She was attempting to take all of it in. A voice at the back of her thoughts screamed that he was mendacity—that he was saying it to control her—however Beth knew that was solely her worry speaking. Drew had no cause to lie. She’d dedicated to their relationship. “And the opposite?”

Drew took a step nearer to her. “The half about me desirous to spend the remainder of my life with you?”

Beth swallowed. “Sure. You c-can’t . . . you possibly can’t imply that.”

The following factor she knew, he was standing shut sufficient to the touch her. Drew reached for her arms. “I do.”

She opened her mouth to protest, and he reduce her off. “I do know you’re not prepared. Such as you stated, this factor between us remains to be new. However my dad all the time informed me that at some point I’d simply know. He was proper.”

So many feelings had been racing round inside her. She needed to imagine him. The a part of her that had been falling for him for the reason that first time he sat down beside her at Serpent’s Kiss needed the whole lot he stated to be true. Expertise had taught her completely different, although. Beth had thought she was closing in on the dream earlier than and had it blow up in her face. Courting Drew had been an enormous danger for her. She couldn’t give something extra. Not proper now. It was simply too quickly. “I’m sorry. I can’t . . .”

He moved nearer. “I’m not asking you to. No stress, Beth. I’ll wait so long as you could really feel snug.”

“And if I by no means do?”

Drew cupped the facet of her face and seemed her straight within the eye. “I’ll nonetheless be right here.”

***

He’d thought she was inside together with his mother. If he’d had any concept that she was standing shut sufficient to listen to what he’d stated to his father, Drew by no means would have stated it.

“You don’t imply that.”

“Sure. I do imply it.” Drew wished he may make her perceive. He’d performed the sphere, because it had been. At no cut-off date had he ever felt something close to what he felt for Beth with some other girl.

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