The Unsung Hero (57 page)
“I love you,” he whispered. “I know we can make this work. At the very least—as two very wise people told me—if it doesn’t, we’ll know it won’t be from lack of trying. Marry me, Kel.”
“And become the wife of a Navy SEAL?”
“Yeah. Never a dull moment. Of course, I’ll be the husband of a highly esteemed pediatrician. It’s hard to say whose pager will go off more often.”
Kelly sighed as he kissed her. “I’m afraid of marriage.”
“I’ll protect you.”
“Do you promise?”
“I promise. I swear. I—”
“I want us to be the kind of people who are still crazy in love when we’re seventy-five years old.”
He kissed her again. “Definitely. Still doing it in the tree house at seventy-five. I promise.”
“I love you,” she told him. “I have since I was fifteen. But I don’t think I can marry you unless you agree to let Joe live with us. We can get a place with an attached apartment and—”
“You are as nice as everyone says.”
Kelly pushed him off her, wrestling him over and pinning him down onto his back. “If you’re not careful,” she warned, “I’m going to have to prove you wrong by doing that thing, you know, with my mouth? . . .”
Tom just smiled.
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