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I glide up the highway and then pull off into the suburbs, slowing down and feeling the tension and uncertainty in Kelly’s body against mine.
I come to the end of the sun-stroked row, to a large six bedroom house surrounded by a wall and with a large, golden, access-pad-operated gate outside.
Kelly makes a whimpering noise of shock when I ride us up to the gate and stroke my thumb along it.
“You own the place?” Kelly asks.
“In a way,” I say, as I ride down the gravel driveway toward the imposing structure.
I stop outside the garage and she climbs off, taking off her helmet and tossing her hair so that it falls down to her leather clad shoulders. I climb off and remove my helmet, gazing at her with those feelings of animal possession trying to take hold of me right here, make me bend her over my bike and drive deep inside of her, put a child inside of her if I haven’t already.
“How do you own somewhere in a way?” she says, putting the helmet down on the bike seat.
I do the same, and then close the distance with her and wrap my arms around her. I lean down and kiss her, sliding my hands down her back, toward her ass, making a growling noise when she pushes even closer.
I have to break it off before I go full beast, and then I smooth my hand down her leather jacket and take her hand.
“Come on,” I growl. “I need to show you something.”
“You still haven’t answered my question,” she giggles as I lead her toward the door.
“Oh,” I say. “I own it in a way, because we both own it. It’s ours. Yours and mine.”
“What?” she gasps.
I open the door to the wide open hallway, light drifting across the room and glinting off the bannister of the double staircase, wide and airy. I take her through the unfurnished house to the rear dining hall where the table sits, red roses and places set, overlooking the large garden with the glittering fountain.
“We’ll need to buy furniture,” I tell her. “But I’m sure you can help with that. This means we can still be together when you go to college and pursue your dreams. I’ll need to return to Aslado, of course, but two hundred miles on my hog isn’t a big deal at all. Obviously, if you don’t want to live here, if you want to live in the dorms—”
“Are you kidding?” she yells, skipping over to me and shooting me a mega pout. “You think I’d rather stay in a dorm than with you? No way. You’ll have to up the security on this place if you try and put me in the dorms. Fair warning.”
I laugh huskily and then reach into my leather jacket, my hand tightening around the source of my nerves, looking at this woman and scenting her perfection in the air.
“I’m so relieved,” I say. “Because I love you, Kelly. I love you more than life itself. And the idea of spending one second away from you drives me crazy. Don’t get me wrong. I’m a big boy. I know that sometimes reality gets involved and we’ll have to be apart. But I love you. And I want to be with you forever.”
She gasps, bringing her hands to her mouth and then says, through tears and through her fingers, “I love you, too. Oh, God, I love you so much, Kane.”
I fall to one knee and take out the ring box in the same fluid motion, opening it to reveal the sparkling diamond, elegant and oh-so-right for Kelly’s subtle and yet devastating beauty.
“Kelly Yeager,” I say. “I love you and I want – no, need – to spend the rest of my life with you. I need to see our children grow up and flourish. I need to be with you every step of the way as you achieve your dreams, and support you in any damn way I can. Kelly Yeager, will you make me the happiest man in the world? Will you marry me?”
Tears spring in her eyes and she begins to sob softly. “Y-yes,” she says, pushing the words out. “Oh my God, yes, of course. Yes, yes, a million, billion, gazillion times yes!”
I slide the ring onto her finger, letting the box drop away, and then rise to my feet and throw myself at her.
She does the same and we clash carnally next to the table, our lips grasping for each others and our hands roaming all over each other’s bodies.
The kissing has a new intensity as the thought crashes through my mind, This is my fiancé, she’s going to be my wife, and we’re going to spend the rest of our lives together.
“I love you so freaking much,” she breathes, breaking off the kiss. “I’m so glad you said it. I was so nervous I was the only one who felt that way.”
