I laugh. “If you think you’re putting me off with this little demand, you’re so wrong.”
“I’m not. I figure you should know the truth. The woman you love wants a gazillion kids.”
“What you need to understand, baby, to give you those gazillion kids, I get to fuck you.”
“Do you think I’ll be a good mom?”
“I have no reason to doubt it. You’re a good person, Kate.” I kiss her hand.
The dogs need a walk by the time we get home. Kate and I decide to be the ones to offer.
Frank and Suzy look at me expectantly, but they don’t know what I’ve got planned for the proposal. I’ve been wanting to marry this girl for some time.
“Do you think our parents are acting weird?” Kate asks.
She’s got Bernice again while I have the others.
“No.”
“I don’t know. They had a bit of giggling going on. Hearing Frank giggle is weird.”
I chuckle. “It’s Christmas. Their favorite time of the year. I wouldn’t worry about it so much.”
We head back home after the dogs have all done their business. Kate heads upstairs first. Our parents are nowhere in sight, and once I close up all downstairs, I make my way up. I take a quick shower, but rather than go to my room, I go straight to Kate’s. She’s already in bed.
Rather than send me off, she pulls back the blankets and pats the bed.
The moment I have her in my arms, I can feel myself get tired. My cock is rock-hard, but I just want to hold her tonight.
“I love you, Kate,” I say. “So fucking much.” I kiss her neck and feel her warmth spread around me.
“I love you too.”
I think it’s the first time she’s ever said it to me, and just hearing it brings me peace.
Chapter Eight
Kate
On Christmas morning, I wake up really excited. I don’t know why. I’m not a kid anymore, but there is a sense of happiness surrounding me. Throwing the covers off, I use the bathroom, brush my teeth, and then race downstairs and get to the bottom to realize Myron, Mom, and Frank are already in the living room waiting.
They’ve been talking, and the moment they spot me, they all go silent.
“Did I interrupt something?” I pause and wonder what they could have been discussing.
Myron turns to me with a smile, and I love that smile so damn much. He slept in my bed last night, and there were a few moments throughout the night when I woke with his arms wrapped around me. It was the greatest feeling in the world.
Now I realize I’m wearing pajamas, and I don’t care if I look a mess or cute or whatever.
He’s looks at me as if I’m his entire world, and there is no greater feeling as far as I’m concerned. He is my world as well. I love him so much.
“You didn’t interrupt anything,” Myron gets to his feet and comes toward me. He kisses my cheek, and even in front of our parents that still feels a little weird, but I’m getting used to it.
“Actually, we were all talking about when you were going to wake up,” Myron says.
“I remember when you were little. You’d always be awake by five and bouncing around the house.”
“Why didn’t you wake me?” I ask.
I’m so happy.
“Because, I wanted you to get enough sleep.”
“Why?”
“For this.”
Myron lowers himself down onto one knee, and at first, I am really confused why my tired state would be in any way a problem.
He’s on one knee.
Then I see the box.
And I just know.
“Oh, my,” I say.
“I wanted this moment to be really special. For you to realize exactly what you mean to me. I love you more than anything else in the world. I want you to be my wife, and I want to give you everything your heart desires. You’re my future, Kate. I love every single part of you, and I will do whatever it takes to make you happy.”
“Yes,” I say. There really is no point in arguing. I love this man more than anything. He is my life, my world, my everything. I want him.
“What?”
“Yes. I have no doubt. I love you, Myron.”
My mom cheers, and Frank laughs. I don’t care as Myron takes me in his arms, kisses me hard, and I just know I’ve made the best decision of my life.
Suddenly, I have to pull away. “What about college?”
“I can wait, Kate.” He tucks some of my messed-up hair behind my ear. “For you I can wait until the end of the world. You’ll finish college, and we’ll marry, and the rest of the time, it’s our life.”
“You can really wait that long?”
“Forever.”
He pulls me close, kisses me, and I know I wouldn’t be waiting forever to have this man as mine.
Just so long as it takes to arrange a wedding for me is all it will take.