Epilogue
CHERRY
“Honey, wake up,” I heard Dylan’s voice as my eyes fluttered open.
“Come on honey, hurry up! I have a surprise for you.”
I rubbed my eyes and slowly sat up on the bed. The white blanket dropped, exposing my naked form and it was then that I realized the bedroom lights were on.
I looked over to the side and I saw Dylan up by the door, leaning on his crutches and holding a small box.
I gasped.
“I-is that what I think it is?” I asked as soon as I realized what this could mean. In an instant, my mind snapped awake.
“Uh huh,” Dylan nodded and slowly made his way over to me on the bed, “I can’t kneel so let me just lie down here on your lap and ask you the only question that really matters: Cherry Vergara, will you marry me?”
He opened the box and inside was the most gorgeous ring I ever laid eyes on. It was made of silver and white gold bands encrusted with tiny little sapphires all around. In the center was a big grip holding a giant diamond.
“Oh my God. Yes!” I answered with glee. He took the ring and slowly slid it on my finger before I rushed to give him a big, fat, wet kiss on his lips. “Oh Baby, I love you.”
“I love you too,” he told me. “I know it’s been months now but I still feel like I owe you an apology for all the mean things I said before and the way I treated you.”
“Baby that’s yesterday’s news,” I told him. I stared into his eyes and tried to remind him that we’d move on from that stage. “None of that stuff in the past matters. I met your parents, your friends at Mercury Wild and you even let me get acquainted with some of your ex-girlfriends. You’re not hiding anything else, are you?”
He shook his head and asked, “Do my sexual fantasies count as hidden desires?”
“Oh baby, stop making fun of me now!” I giggled and pulled him in closer to me and give him another warm hug.
“I will – seriously – make fun of you for the rest of our lives, Mrs. Bernard.”
I was the happiest woman on earth. For the first time since we ever struck that business deal, I had the assu
rance that this was the right relationship for both of us.
I gave him a kiss and with that kiss I sealed the deal: the deal of our love, stronger and truer than ever before.
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