Chapter 297: To the Stars and Back
** Harper **
Harper couldn’t believe her eyes. She couldn’t believe her ears. She couldn’t believe any of the things happening right at this moment.
Because one second she was making a wish upon a shooting star, and the next ... a scene that could only exist in her dreams was suddenly in front of her, more magically and more beautifully than she could ever even imagine.
Was she fantasizing it? Was this real??
"O-Oh my God, Eli ..." Harper stammered, not knowing what to say at all. The only thing she managed to do instinctively was to pull Eli back up to his feet. "Y-You are talking like I’m an angel. That’s ... that’s so ..."
"Accurate." Eli chuckled, his free hand gripping hers tightly. "You are the best thing that has ever happened to me, love. Angel is only one word that comes close to describing the way I feel about you every day."
Harper would have thought those words were too exaggeratedly saccharine and cheesy, if not for the break in his voice that told her how true every syllable was. He meant everything he said, and that fact alone was making her vision turn so blurry that—
Wait, was she crying? Since when had her eyes gotten so wet that she had to blink to refocus on the man in front of her?
"Gosh, you probably shouldn’t be enabling my ego like this." She wiped off her tears with the back of her hand, feeling a little embarrassed. "I ... I really can’t believe ..."