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Soon after, I flipped my eyes open with a series of rapid blinks and saw him standing above me.
Dressed in all white, casual linen attire, he reached down to me and began to slide his fingers through my hair. Recalling I’d fainted, I attempted to sit upright in the bed, but as I did, Gabe pressed his palm against my shoulder, pinning me in place.
“My friends? What happened? How did I wind up in bed?”
As I rattled off my questions, I reached towards my cheek and pressed my hand against it, by chance feeling the cool touch of metal. Just then, another memory returned and I stretched my arm out in front of my face, snapping it straight at the elbow.
There before me was Gabe’s engagement ring.
Somehow I’d lost consciousness right after he put it on my finger. I stared at it, hypnotized by the kaleidoscope of colors shining from it as the ambient light in the room reflected across the magnificent stone.
“Well, I’ve seen a lot of things in my time, Fiona but that one… It’s going to be hard to beat.”
Half listening, and half looking at the ring, I glanced up towards Gabe.
“Huh?”
Gabe spent the next few minutes explaining what happened. As he recounted the events, I remembered almost all of them right up until the moment I blacked out. As it so happened, I hadn’t given him an answer to his question.
“It’s just me and you, Fiona,” he said, as he withdrew his hand from my head. “I thought you would enjoy having your friends around, but I understand if it’s too uncomfortable and awkward. That said, I am going to insist upon an answer from you.”
Touching the ring, I looked up at him in silence.
As he finished speaking, he sat down on the mattress next to me and pointed at it. “I don’t just hand these out to everyone.”
“I know,” I said with a whisper. “I’m flattered and honored.”
Gabe leaned away from me a bit. “I feel a ‘but’ coming.”
My eyes moved between the ring and his face.
Perhaps in the moment before, I’d just gotten overwhelmed, and being that it was so unexpected, my nerves got the better of me. But now, in the intimate quiet between us, I had time to search my feelings for the answer.
On the surface, it was easy to jump at the chance and say ‘yes’. I wanted to do it more than anything. But, before I did, there was a question that still needed answering and it wasn’t from me.
“Gabe,” I began, as I looked into his eyes. “There’s something I need to tell you, and likewise there’s something I need to hear you say.”
“Shut up, Fiona,” Gabe replied, without the slightest hint of emotion.
Recoiling into the bed a bit, I frowned and said, “What? Shut up?”
Gabe nodded.
“Yes… Shut. Up.”
A sudden swell of indignation rose up within me.
“Why should I shut up? You don’t even know what I’m going to say.”
“I do. And, that’s why you need to shut up.”
Now he was pissing me off. Frustrated, I tried to move myself into a more upright position, but as I did, Gabe held me still once more.
“Sit still and calm down, Fiona,” he warned.
“I will do no such thing and…”
Just then, Gabe leaned over top of me, grabbing me by the upper arms and shoving me into the bed beneath. No sooner had he forced me down than he crushed his mouth into mine and began to kiss me with aggression and passion.
Resisting at first, I started to relax my body under his control and give in to a need within me, which had been neglected for too long now. But no sooner had he started than Gabe broke his lips free of mine with a sudden jolt.
With his eyes locked on mine, he said, “I love you, Fiona, dammit. I’m in love with you and I want you to be my wife. Now you can say ‘yes’ or ‘no’, it’s up to you, but you better say something and you better do it now.”
“I-I…” I stammered as he hovered over me still clutching my upper arms with force.
“Now!” he barked.
“O-Okay, okay!” I exclaimed, as I choked a hard swallow down my throat. “Of course I’ll marry you, Gabe. Of course I’m in love with you! Are you crazy!!?”
“Only for you, babe… Only for you.”
He leaned in and began to kiss me once more. As the seconds ticked by, I felt a terrible stirring between my thighs. Seizing the moment, I brazenly reached up and grabbed hold of his cock. But no sooner had I done so, than Gabe swatted me away with a rather forceful smack.
“Not right now,” he said, with a scolding tone. Doing a half-turn, he pointed in the direction of the living room. “You’ve got company.”
