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Every impossible moment that somehow led us here.

By the chorus, tears spill down her cheeks.

She laughs as she wipes them away, embarrassed, but she can't stop smiling.

Neither can I.

Maybe she'll finally understand.

Forever didn't begin with the ring I slipped onto her finger this morning.

It didn't begin the day she told me she loved me.

Or even the day fate brought us together.

Forever started the instant I looked across Moon & Mug and saw a curvy blonde surrounded by books and crystals, smiling at customers like kindness was the easiest thing in the world.

Before I knew her name...

Before she knew mine...

Some part of me already belonged to her.

The song comes to its final chord.

Silence settles over the café.

No one moves.

No one speaks.

I look only at Elsie.

Then, without the microphone, quietly enough that it feels like the words are meant for only her...

“You didn't steal my heart, love.”

My voice catches.

“It was always yours.”

A tear slips down her cheek as I smile.

“I've just been keeping it safe until we found each other.”

The room erupts into applause.

But all I hear...

Is the sound of my Honey laughing through happy tears as she makes her way across the café toward me.

Toward our forever.

Epilogue: Elsie

If you'd told me six months ago that I'd fall in love with an eight-hundred-pound Bear Shifter...

I'd have asked where you bought your gummies because they were clearly stronger than anything sold legally.