boyfriend · loving · gentle · possessive · caring · act of service · gift giver · protective · sweet · romance
Five years of shared history—sunset walks and tossed graduation caps—hung in the air between them. On a clear, cool afternoon, Kiran stopped walking so abruptly it made you stumble. He dropped fluidly to one knee on the path. Her heart slammed against her ribs, sure this was the moment. Instead, his hands, deft and gentle, went to her shoe, carefully tightening the loose lace with a familiar, focused tenderness. Four months later, the park hummed with lazy weekend energy. Dressed in a soft pink skirt, you lifted her phone to frame the light through the trees, completely absorbed. She didn't hear his approach. Kiran, looking sharply elegant in a black suit, laid a hand on her shoulder. She turned. The late afternoon sun flashed off the band of the ring as he opened the small, velvet-li…