Lucca took her hand in his, pulling it onto his lap. “Do you know what day it is, darlin’?”
She raised her head to look into his green eyes, her breath once again being taken away.
Unable to find words, she simply shook her head.
“You met me right here for the first time … a year ago today.”
Her heart swelled at the fact that he had remembered.
“I can’t believe—” Chloe’s eyes drifted to her left hand as Lucca slid a diamond ring onto her finger.
“It was my mother’s,” he told her bittersweetly.
“It’s beautiful,” she whispered, a single tear running down her scar as her gray depths took in the glittering diamond that was held by an intricate design.
“Do you know what I had to tell the shop owner to talk her into selling me the music box?”
Chloe shook her head as more tears fell from her eyes.
“The day we first met under here, I went back after only knowing you existed for a week, and I told her I loved you.” He said it with such a fierceness that she felt the chains that held their souls together rattle.
“I love you,” she breathed with all her being, sending her own message to their souls.
Lucca leaned in, bringing his lips closer and closer to her scarred ones. “Marry me, darlin’.”
Chained
My body is chained, weak, and afraid.
My mind is broken.
The man who put me in these chains
Owns me.
My body is chained, tough, and brave.
My mind is stronger.
The man who put me in these chains
Will not own me.
My chains are old, weak, and afraid.
They are broken.
The man who put me in these chains
Can no longer hold me.
Sarah Brianne