He let my leg fall as he closed the space between us and kissed me again. His hand applied slight pressure to my neck as he fucked me through an orgasm. The feeling was so intense that it felt like a levy breaking. As if the way he bit my lip and tightened his grip on my neck weren't an indication that he was releasing as well, I could feel his dick pulsating inside of me, filling me with evidence of our effect on each other.
He lay on me, and I wrapped my arms around him. At this point, it was deeper than just catching our breaths after sex. This was for all the missed moments; it was all the things we had tried to suppress over the years. I was his safe place. And he was my rainbow. He showed up after the storm he had just caused and gave me the most beautiful promise of peace.
"Cashmere Elise Savage?" He said from his position on my chest.
"Yes?" I answered with my eyes closed, rubbing his hair.
He sat up and looked me in my eyes. "I need you, and I need my son. Will you marry me?"
12
KAIRO
Ilooked at Cash as I asked her to marry me, and she started crying as soon as I asked. She was the only woman in the world who had made me want to say the words I had just spoken. We had just reconnected on the island. I didn't have a ring, and we were naked on the couch of her suite, but I couldn't let the moment pass. I wasn't going to let her get away from me again. She had my son and my heart.
"Kairo, are you sure?"
"Hell yeah," I said, causing her to laugh through tears.
"Yes, Ro. I'll marry you." She smiled brightly as she sat up and kissed me. We sat there for a moment before I got up and threw on my pants, and I gave her the ones I had taken off her. She slid them on and looked at me.
"Let's go shower, baby. We got shit to do before it gets dark."
"What do we have to do?" She asked, confused.
"We've got to get married. My whole family is here on the island, but I want it to be me, you, and our son. We can see them tomorrow to celebrate his birthday. He needs to know he has a village."
She didn't fight me. She just had me follow her to the shower on the other side of the suite. It took us longer than expectedbecause she dropped to her knees once we were inside it, and she reminded me why she had left me. Then when she was done, I picked her up and fucked her against the shower wall until she was screaming and digging in my back. I missed everything about her, but the sex was for sure high on the list. She was threatening to activate my fucking demons again, but I fought to suppress them until the ink dried on the marriage license. I wasn't going out sad twice.
Once we showered, we dressed, and I followed her into the room where our son was sleeping. I didn't need a test to confirm what I already knew. If by any chance KJ wasn't my son, I was going to have to kill Kaino or Kaire because the boy lying in the bed looked exactly like me and my siblings.
"How long does he normally sleep?"
"Around two to three hours. The best part of my day," She laughed. "Grab him for me, please."
I eased him out of bed as she packed a backpack full of juices and snacks. I looked at what she had and shook my head.
"What's wrong?" She questioned.
"Where the snacks?" I shot back. Looking at the damn granola bars and applesauce she was packing.
"He doesn't eat sugar, Kairo," she said as she giggled and zipped the bag.
"As in he can't, or you won't give it to him?" I raised my eyebrow and looked at her.
"You think the lord is going to give me a baby at forty-one, and I'm going to pump him up full of garbage?" She laughed.
"I hate to tell you this, but I saw a 120-pack of fruit roll-ups at the house, and after they meet him tomorrow, we might have to fight if you say he can't have one," I warned her. My mother, especially, didn't want to hear shit when it came to her grandchildren.
She laughed. "It's okay."
We walked outside to the truck, and I started trying to find a jewelry store nearby. The first order of business was to find Cash a ring, and then we would find someone on the island who could marry us.
KJ started to wake up, and after he noticed that he was lying on me, he reached for Cash. The fact that he wasn't comfortable with me fucked with me, but I pushed it to the back of my mind. At the very least, it validated that Cashmere had been an amazing mother to him. Even though we lost three years, we had the rest of our lives cause he wasn't leaving my side.
We were almost to the jeweler when Cash said, "Ro, didn't you show up on the island with a whole girlfriend? What are we doing?"
"That's not my girlfriend, baby. She can be the flower girl, though." I said, never looking up from my phone. Ayesha was the least of my concerns, she wasn't my girl, and I'll be damned if she was going to be the reason why Cash decided not to go through with this marriage. I had found a spot here that does weddings, and I was booking a time slot for later. I was more serious about this than I had ever been about anything else. Before the sun set, she would be Mrs. Cashmere Carter.