Chapter 9 - The Woman in the Rain
One year later, Adrian took me back to the same bus shelter where I had found his mother.
It was raining.
Not as hard.
But enough.
His mother was waiting.
She smiled.
“You remember this place?”
“How could I forget?”
She hugged me.
“You saved me.”
I shook my head.
“You saved me too.”
She looked confused.
“Me?”
“Yes.”
“If I hadn't stopped for you, I would have lost my job.”
She laughed.
“And then?”
“Then I met Adrian.”
She looked at her son.
He smiled.
“I think we owe you a lot.”
Ava ran toward us.
“Grandma!”
Adrian's mother hugged her.
Watching them together made my heart ache in the best way.
Then Adrian took my hand.
“Megan.”
I looked at him.
He knelt.
I froze.
“Oh my God.”
Ava screamed.
“Mommy!”
People under the awning turned.
Adrian opened a ring box.
“I spent most of my life thinking power meant never needing anyone.”
He looked at me.
“Then you stopped in the rain for a woman you didn't know.”
He smiled.
“And you taught me what strength actually looks like.”
I cried.
“Megan Carter, will you marry me?”
I looked at Ava.
She was jumping up and down.
“Yes.”
Adrian stood.
May you like
Ava hugged both of us.
And the three of us laughed beneath the rain.
