Second Chance

I stared between the two men before me; the man on his knee before me stared back, desperation and vulnerability in his eyes while the man to his right held an expression void of emotion. My stomach churned as my eyes flitted between the ring in the beautiful robin’s egg blue box and his face.

“So what do you say?” His voice was strained and maybe a little sad as he watched me, his eyes focused on me.

I turned my gaze to the brooding man to his right. He frowned and a part of me wished he would just disappear all together. Another part of me wanted to scream and yell and cause a scene but my voice left me. But the biggest part of me wanted to reach out and snatch the ring from the box and slide it on my right ring finger and wrap my arms around him.

I couldn’t do that. Things were already complicated enough as it is and that would only widen the hole.