Tayshia’s Very Much In Love

After an insane season of Bachelorette during an insane year, contestant No. 2 Tayshia Adams found her Hollywood ending, she tells People.

“If you had told me in March that I’d be getting engaged at the end of the year, I would not have believed it for a second,” said Adams, 30, who got engaged to addiction recovery specialist Zac Clark, 36, on the show’s finale on Tuesday. “But I want to experience life with [Zac] by my side. He’s what I’ve always wanted.”

Adams, as many fans will recall, stepped into the show mid-season after Clare Crawley left.

She said that Clark intrigued her early on: “Just the way he was speaking to me, you could tell he had maturity that I was really attracted to. And there was something I couldn’t put my finger on. He had a mystery to him that I wanted to get to know more about. And him having the coin for me to throw in the fountain on the first night was simple and thoughtful. He tugged on my heartstrings with that!”