Chapter 16

“Oh my, why don’t you two get a room?” Kat smiled at the two of them. “You are smooching like a couple of teens.”

From the way they were plastered to each other, they’d been at it a while.

Molly smiled at Kat.

“Kat, welcome. What brings you here?” John asked his daughter-in-law.

“Hello, Dad. Laura told me the news about Molly, and I came to offer her moral support. I didn’t know she was already getting it.” Kat winked at her father-in-law.

Molly blushed.

“I’m so happy for you two,” Kat said with a huge smile on her face. “Do we have a wedding to plan?”

John rolled his eyes, “Women! I haven’t even proposed yet! Besides,” he added, “she may well refuse me.”

Kat snorted, “Like that is going to happen! Look at her, Dad!”

John locked his eyes on Molly.

Molly was bubbly, happy. Seeing her like that had reminded him of the reason he had fallen in love with her. Molly was life and laughter against the darkness. She always had been.

“But ... I don’t have a ring.”

“I can take care of that,” Molly took out one of her rings, and handed it to John.

“I’m not sure I can slide it on her finger with these...” John raised his casts.

“Dad! Stop making excuses!” Kat pointed her phone at them and started recording. “You’re on, Dad.”

“Okay, okay...” John carefully took the ring between his thumb and index finger. He went down on one knee, cleared his throat said, “Molly, will you...”

“Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!”

Molly held her hand out, it was all shaky. John’s hand was all shaky too as he placed the ring on her finger.

Before John knew what was happening, Molly jumped into his arms and started kissing him with abandon.

A crying Kat sent the video recording to every person in her contact list. The number of messages and voice mails she got back, flooded her phone in a few minutes.

Sooner than expected, people was showing at the farm. Red, Tony, Paul, Mary, Percy, Laura, and a bunch of close friends and neighbors.