Page 112 of Healed
“Let me get you cleaned up and we’ll move this to the bedroom,” he said, kissing her ear. He quickly soaped up his hands and ran them over her body, then down between her legs to wash away his semen as it dripped from her body. When he was done, he kept one hand on her waist as he quickly washed his own body, then turned off the water and quickly dried himself first, before wrapping her in a towel and carrying her to his bedroom.
“I hope it’s always like this,” she murmured as he lay her down on his bed.
“It will be,” he promised, as he lay down beside her and pulled her into his arms.
Her head was lying on his chest, so she turned her face upward to better see him. “I can’t believe I found you.”
“I hope that’s a good thing, because you’re kind of stuck with me. I’ll love you forever.”
They lay quietly for a few minutes before he asked what was weighing on his mind. “Daisy, how do you feel about children? I mean of your own. Children with me.”
Daisy lifted up on her elbow so she could really look at him. “I don’t know if you noticed a moment of hesitation a little earlier… that was exactly what I was thinking. I think maybe we should use protection before we take any more chances.”
“So, you don’t want them?” he asked.
“Oh, no! I want like, ten or eleven! I just don’t know if you do.”
Charlie laughed boisterously. “If that’s what you want, my love, that’s what we’ll have.”
She laughed, too, then rested her head on his chest again. “Charlie, what if we already…”
“Daisy?” he asked.
“Yes?” she asked quietly.
“There’s something I have to confess…”
Daisy felt her heart thud in her chest wondering if she even wanted to know anything he considered a confession. “Okay,” she said softly.
“The day after we had a play date with Havoc and his family, and the rest of your extended family…” he stopped, waiting for her to acknowledge what he’d said so far.
“Yes,” she said.
“I went shopping. I talked to Carson first,” he said, getting up and walking across his bedroom, completely comfortable with his nudity as he took a couple of seconds to dig around in one of the drawers in his dresser. He seemed to find what he was looking for and came back toward her wearing a huge grin, “and he was so very excited about what I was shopping for that he wanted to be a part of it, too.”
“I don’t understand,” Daisy said.
As she watched, he went down on his knees beside the bed she still lay in, and presented her with a very small, velvet box.
Daisy’s eyes widened and she sat bolt upright in the bed as she watched him speechlessly.
“I’ve known since the moment I met you that there was something special about you that I’d never find in anyone else. When you and your family took us both in like they’d known us all our lives, any reasonable doubt I might have had disappeared. I love you, I’ll always love you. I’ll make you happy for all of my life, and I’ll even try in the after life if I get the chance. With what I’ve learned of your family, I believe I’m your mate, but will you also be my wife?” He opened the box and Daisy gazed down at a brilliant cut round, pale yellow diamond set in platinum with a halo of white baguette diamonds of varying lengths surrounding the main stone, giving it a look similar to the rays of light leaving the sun.
Daisy’s mouth fell open, and remained open as she stared at the stone.
“Carson said he thinks of the color yellow when he thinks of you, and I can’t help but see the light shining from your soul, so I chose this one. If you don’t like it, we can exchange it for another.”
“No! It’s perfect! I’ve just never seen anything so beautiful! It’s perfect!”
Charlie smiled at her and took the ring out of the box, quickly discarding the box somewhere behind him before sliding the ring on her finger. “Perfect fit,” he said.
“Oh, Charlie. I love it! It’s beautiful!”
“So, is that a yes?” he asked.
Daisy realized he was still on his knees, waiting for an answer. “Yes! Yes, a thousand yeses!” she exclaimed.
Charlie launched himself into the bed and took her in his arms again, kissing her breathless.
