“Baby, it’s not that you aren’t good enough. It’s because she’s broken. She thinks that she needs to be a certain way and can’t accept anything or anyone that doesn’t fit into her mold. But her mold is stupid. Her way of thinking is going to make her miss out on the best things in her life. One day she will look back on everything and regret it.” Katie’s head fell on my shoulder and I felt pain in my heart. “So, I have something for you.” Not sure what to do in order to make everything better, I decided to use distraction.
“What is it?” I slipped her off me and placed her gently on the couch before heading to my desk and picking up the large rectangle box, wrapped and decorated in a big bow.
“Open it and see.” I said, handing her the box.
Her slender fingers gently unwrapped the present, making sure not to tear the paper but gently lifting corners, pulling the box out gently.
“This is killing me, can you just open it already.” I said, eager for her to see her gift. She smiled at me and then pulled the box open.
“You got me a dress?”
“I did.” She pulled out the black dress and looked at it.
“It’s beautiful. What’s the occasion?”
“Well, since I met your parents, I thought tonight you could meet my mom.”
“What? I am so not prepared to meet your mother. Look at me!”
“I am, and you look beautiful.”
“I’m wearing sweats.”
“That’s an easy fix, just put on the dress.” She looked at me, a smile taking over her face and making it shine. “Well, put it on.”
Katie, took off her workout clothing, revealing black lace panties and bra. It took everything in me not to rip them off of her and fuck her right on the floor. The way the bra held up her large sexy as hell breasts was driving me mad and making me harder than I already was.
Once she was dressed, I looked at her and wanted to bang her even more. The girl looked sexy as sin naked, but in a dress she looked ravishingly beautiful.
“Why are you looking at me like that?” She asked, smoothing the dress out. I grabbed her hands in mine taking a moment to look into her beautiful eyes before dropping on my knees.
“Katie Wilder, you are it for me. You have been it for me since I was a kid. My whole life I knew something was missing. I was lost until you walked into my gym that day. I want to be the man that you go to sleep with every night and the one you wake up to every morning. You are the rising sun to my darkness. I love you and if you say yes, I would be the happiest man on the face of the planet. Will you marry me?”
“Yes.” She said, nodding her head vigorously, happy tears filling her eyes.
I pulled the ring from my pocket and slid it on her finger.
“This ring, Sawyer…it’s beautiful.”
“It was my grandmother’s, she was married to my grandpa for sixty-seven years. They fell in love at seventeen and got married six months later. They just knew, the same way that I knew when I met you all those years ago. If you don’t like it, I can get you another. I know it’s not traditional.” She placed her finger on my lips, silencing me with the heat of her touch.
“It’s perfect.” She kissed me softly. “Just like you.”
“Just like us.” I hauled her into my arms and kissed her breathless.
Katie
“She’ll love you. Stop being so nervous.” Sawyer said when we parked at his mother’s. He grabbed my hand, holding it still, and in that moment I realized that I had been tapping my fingers and my foot.
“I’m sorry. This is a big deal. Why didn’t I meet her in high school?”
“Because you were this smart, rich girl, and I lived on the wrong side of the tracks. I’m ashamed to admit it, but I was embarrassed by where I lived.”
“What? Why would you ever be worried about that? Sawyer, if I ever made you feel like that, I’m sorry,” I said, pulling his hand to my lap.
“I grew up with money and my family is a hot mess. Money and prestige mean nothing to me and it doesn’t make anyone happy. Just look at my mother.”
“I know that as an adult but a young teen me thought everything was stacked against him.”
“Ya’ll gonna come in our just sit in the car all night?” A booming voice hollered from the steps of the house, turning my head I saw a robust woman wearing an apron that said Best Mom Ever with one hand on her waist while another was holding an oven mitt. Sawyer laughed and rushed out of the car, opening my door and dragging me up the stairs.