“You might call this the representation of my heart, Ashley. It belongs to you now. Stay with me. Build a future with me. This Christmas, and always, let’s create a life full of love. Don’t leave. Please, don’t leave.”
Ashley wavered between all that she had planned and all that Luca offered. The future that called her back to the States would be easier. It would be stability and safety nets, but it wouldn’t give her what she now knew she craved the most—the love of a remarkable man.
Slowly, like the build of a perfect crescendo, bell chimes began to sound, building, filling the air, vibrating with loving hope and promise.
“Luca…are you sure?”
“Without a question or a doubt.”
Across the valley that stretched below them, through the streets that curved, the buildings that had stood for centuries, sounding against mountain ranges that rose against the horizon, church bells continued to sound, striking noon in time to the music of God’s own melody.
This was her answer. This was her future. This was her heart—and his—coming together for life’s ultimate adventure.
“You’re a gift I intend to revere. I love you,” he murmured against her trembling, waiting lips.
“I love you, too,” she whispered in turn, shifting her plans all over again in deference to the gift of love God had delivered to her this Christmas.
A kiss flowed from his soul to hers and back again, accompanied by the ongoing melody of a bell-chime serenade.
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