I felt him shift from beside me to behind me and he pulled the blindfold off. What was in front of me was breathtaking: it was the most beautiful villa I’d ever seen. It was all white with blue shutters, a room overlooking the river, and a big old porch wrapped around the entire house. It looked so peaceful and dreamy I almost cried. I couldn’t believe he spent all these months building something like this on his own for me, for both of us actually.