That night he had proposed to her. She got the ring around a breadstick. He took it off, and bent down on one knee, he gave a short speech about how much he loved her, how he wants to spend the rest of his life with her.
She didn't care if people thought it was weird, she loved him, three years made no difference.
They went and picked up Mali. Corrie left early for some family emergency. The suite was empty. They had it to themselves. They put Mali to bed before starting their engagement celebration.
She hoped to one day enlarge their family, to have little blondes running around in the freshcut grass yard playing with the family dog. She wished to have more than Mali as a symbol of their love. She wanted to have people refer to them as the Martin family and a big one at that.
She wanted to start it all soon, who knows maybe after their celebration they will be a bigger family.