Who do you choose Katie? Greg joins the reunion

She may have mourned the prospect of “her one” going out a couple of weeks ago, but “Bachelorette” star Katie Thurston has moved on to an engagement. The end of her season turned rocky with successive self-eliminations from frontrunners Michael A, a widowed father who took care of Katie but struggled to stay away from his young son, and Greg, who made a first impression soared but made it home. The breaking point was last week when he expressed his love for Katie but didn’t feel validated enough. Greg’s self-exclusion had Katie so dumbfounded, she begged for a plane ticket back. “In that moment, I totally blamed myself,” Katie reflected during the season finale, “After the Final Rose.” “You start to wonder about yourself and your worth and have what I felt as straight men I was expecting a vacation. You start to wonder ‘What if?'” “And does she leave to chase them?” Despite her struggle to tackle it all, Katie stayed put in this week’s finale, as she has two men to choose from: Blake, who is originally late from last season and has obvious chemistry with her, and Justin, who has worked his way up to the finish. After not making many waves this season beyond his unforgettable facial reactions. (Note later on ‘ATFR’ that many of his moments with Katie didn’t appear on camera.) Last week’s recap: ‘The Bachelorette’ recap: Katie calls Greg a ‘hot favorite’, but that’s not enough of the deadlines: Katie says ` ‘I Love You’ For the first time, news of Greg’s departure rocks Blake and Justin, who worry it will affect Katie’s final decision. Blake tells Katie that he loves her and vows not to leave after making that statement (next time @Greg, my friend). Katie broke her oath not to drop the L-bomb with more than one contestant remaining, telling Blake that she “(expletive) I love you so much” before spending the night together (don’t worry, just because Katie’s last three messed up a bit doesn’t mean the more sexually positive starlet In The Bachelorette, her imagination doesn’t understand wings. “I was saving it for the person,” Katie told co-host Kaitlyn of her declaration of love. “My heart officially belongs to Blake.” Sorry, Justin. Who went home without an engagement? Katie asks Justin to talk, which is never a good sign. She explains that her feelings for Blake are getting stronger and they can’t move forward in their relationship. “I was looking forward to the day, however I had my night with Blake and at that, I told him I was falling in love with him,” she says. “That’s something I can only say to one person. You’re someone I’d like to explore things with, but given how I feel right now about Blake, knowing I love him, it wouldn’t make sense for us to move on.” Justin, hit us with one last no-shot Forget, portions that contain nothing but sweet words for Katie: “I just hope you know how special you are and how much you bring to the table. I hope he (Blake) knows what he has in you and that he doesn’t take you for granted.” Katie hopes Justin will be the “final goodbye” of the season. This leaves one man standing. MORE: ‘Bachelor’ contestant Justin Gillies apologizes for previous ‘ignorant and mischievous’ tweets, fan favorite Andrew Spencer also apologizes for previous tweets: ‘I’m not who I am, is Katie engaged?’ Before a theoretical proposal, Blake meets Katie’s family. He worries there’s more pressure than usual to be perfect, because he’s the only rider left. Just when it looks like we’ve had a smooth sail, it’s time for conflict to emerge. Blake’s aunt won’t give a break about…anything to say, and Blake later reveals his nerves about the “expectations” surrounding the engagement. “There’s a lot going on in my head right now, but I love Katie,” he says. “There’s no doubt about that. I just hope we’re ready to participate.” Katie says that night that she thinks Blake is her “soulmate.” But is Blake the one who’s getting cold now? The next morning, while the finalist was picking out his engagement ring, he expressed enough concerns about “forever” with Katie that co-host Tayshia suggested he “let her go.” He told her the next day, “I can’t give you what I came for.” “Because you deserve so much more.” Sounds like a breakup, right? “You deserve the world and I’m excited to support you and be there for you every day to move forward,” concludes Blake, before getting down on one knee. We’ve had it there for a second! INTERVIEW: ‘The Bachelor’ host Taishia Adams on ex-Blake Moens crashes Katie Thurston on ‘After the Final Rose’ season: Katie shoots Greg in a tense reunion. The tension is immediately apparent in Katie and Greg’s reunion. She joins him on the sofa without even looking. Watching the show again, Katie realized how much validation she had given Greg, and how quickly he turned on her. “To do the 180, I feel like you were looking for the perfect escape, because you were never quite ready to participate,” she says. Greg is speechless. Katie on the set: “I don’t think you know what love is, because that was the time I needed you the most, and you ran away.” “The anger I watched again and seeing the way you treated me, using me to get experience, exposure, I dare say acting practice is at my expense. It was fine until the end when I (expletive) and it went away.” Katie explained that she heard rumors afterward that he was actually a “confident and cocky” guy – very different from the shy fans who saw Romeo on screen. Greg apologizes for making her feel this way, citing the “difficult environment” they were in. She keeps talking about roses and the frontrunners when he’s talking about love being the reason he can’t do it anymore. “It felt like you were playing the bachelorette with me instead of just being Katie,” he says. “I just wanted something real, at the end of the day.” Angered at her ex-husband, Katie concludes that Blake is “exactly who I’m supposed to be with.” Interview: ‘The Bachelor’ star Katie Thurston talks about Chris Harrison’s absence in her ‘unexpected’ new season Who’s Next?: Michelle Young will become the next ‘Bachelor’ star this fall