“Marry me!” I stopped moving and so did she. I held her eyes with mine until hers filled up with tears. “Don’t cry baby, just give me an answer.” She nodded her head as she fought for the words.
“Yes-yes, a thousand times yes.” She pulled my head back down to hers and wrapped her legs around me. We moved slowly, never leaving each other’s lips, until I finished inside her.
“I don’t want to be apart from you today.” She gave me a hopeful look as she said it and I knew she was half expecting me to balk. Barring emergency I never take a day off.
“You’ve got it sweetheart.” She texted someone about her day’s classes under the guise of still being ill while I called my second in command who had a lot of fucking jokes when I told him I wasn’t coming in.
We spent the day in bed, as if that’s a surprise. I was surprised at the amount of talking we did. We talked while we fucked, we talked while we took five minute breaks, and we talked when she was too tired and sore to take me but I still laid on top of her with my cock buried inside her.
A couple hours before the kids were due home we sat in the tub with her on my lap and sipped an old bottle of champagne. I felt lighter than I had in weeks as she rested back against my chest.
I lifted her hand out of the water and studied her fingers. “Do you want to choose your ring or do you want me to?”
“I want you to. I want to see what you’ll choose for me.” I kissed her temple and hugged her closer with one arm. I know just what kind of ring I want for her. The shit’s gonna dig into my stash, but it’s worth it, she’s worth it.
I’m glad she made that choice because I didn’t want her to choose. I know her, she’d look for the cheapest thing she could find because she’s always thinking of the kids.
I appreciate that shit more than she can know. But I want her to have the best, because the shit’s gonna be part of her life for the next sixty years at least.
She doesn’t know about my finances because that wasn’t something I needed to discuss with the babysitter that I was screwing like a teenage kid on a bender.
The truth is, I’m not in the first one percent, not even close, but I’m not hurting either. Because I inherited my home, I avoided one of life’s greatest debts.
My shop has been doing pretty well for the past five years or so, and within this last year have seen a swift upturn that have set me up nice barring some shit, like the house blowing away in a tornado.
So other than my kids’ college funds which I’ve already been taking care of, I don’t really have any great expenses to speak of. I didn’t bring up the subject now though. There was time enough for that later.
I did notice that she didn’t even ask, in fact she’s never seemed to care one way or another. As far as she knows I’m working paycheck to paycheck…
“I have to call my family and tell them.” Oh shit, I forgot that part of the story. Other people are eventually going to hear the news. Shit; drama!
Oh well! “Yeah, I better call mom too and tell her the news. Do you want to wait until I get you your ring?”
“No, I’m too excited. I wanna tell ‘em now.”
How is it possible to fall for two completely different personalities? Trial run! Gotta be! We got out of the tub and she ran for her phone while I went for mine.
Somehow or other there were numbers exchanged and her mom called my mom and next thing I knew, my soon to be in laws were coming to town. Looks like I’m not gonna get time to adjust to the outside world intruding on our new relationship.
We told the kids that evening when we took them out to an impromptu dinner of pizza and ice cream. I was nervous as hell but I shouldn’t have been. They were ecstatic.
My little girl put it best. “Does that mean we get to keep you forever Livia?”
“It sure does cupcake.” She pinched her cheeks and the two of them laughed and grinned at each other while me, and my boy rolled our eyes at their silliness.
Inside I know my boy was as happy as I. I could see it on his face. I lucked out all across the board. I found a woman whom I love to distraction and who loves me. And what’s more, she loves and accepts my kids and they adore her.