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“Rob. Hush. You don’t need to sell me. I love you and if you asked me to marry you, I’d say ‘yes’ even if we had to live in a barn.”
“No barns, Kitten. We can have better. I can’t promise you riches…but…you’d marry me? Oh my God, darling. Will you?”
“Absolutely.”
He took her into his arms for a long embrace. His lips on hers, his hands buried in her hair. It was a romantic kiss rather than the usual passionate one, but that’s what a marriage proposal called for. The passion would have to wait until they got to Rob’s place.
“Can we celebrate now?” Auntie spoke from the doorway of her sitting room.
Laughing and crying, Kitt hugged Sug. “Isn’t it about time?” Kitt asked as Rob joined in on their group hug.
Kitt’s mother cried and her father huffed and they both carried on when she called to tell them she was marrying “that Harrison boy”, but they came back for the wedding that she and Rob set for September. It was a lovely fall day, crisp and clear, and the bride wore ivory satin. Her groom looked devastating in a new custom-made black tuxedo. He’d returned the one Suzette bought him, saying it might fit his lookalike, Jason. Kitt’s attendant, her Aunt Carolina, aka Sugar, wore the copper-coloured dress she’d worn when she married John Henry. It was too expensive to wear only once, she declared, and Kitt wasn’t superstitious so it was okay.
The bride’s mother, Savannah, somewhat grudgingly told her sister she looked beautiful, and the matron-of-honour beamed as she walked down the aisle preceding her niece.
Half the town turned out to see Katherine Maxwell, a librarian who was a rather plain high school girl that had turned into a beauty, wed Robert Harrison, a high school bad boy who came up from nothing but was still strikingly handsome and successful.
“This is the happiest day of my life, Kitten,” Rob said as they drove off in his Corvette, “but I’m glad the festivities are over.” He ran his hand up under the short skirt of her powder blue, going-away suit skirt. “I can’t wait to make love to my new wife.”
Kitt palmed his hard-on. “Are you finally going to tell me where we’re going so I know how long we have to wait?”
“How does the Gaylord Palms Resort Hotel sound, Kitten?”
“You’re kidding,” she breathed. “It must cost a fortune to stay there.”
“My former employer is picking up the tab as our wedding gift,” Rob said, taking his hand away from Kitt’s leg to run his finger around the inside of his stiff white collar.
“Suzette? We’re going to be Mr. and Mrs. Gigolo?” Kitt burst out laughing.
“I told you not to use that word, Kitt Harrison. Just for that…” He returned his hand to her leg and slid it higher. “Whoa.” He swerved the Vette. “You’re not wearing any panties.”
“Be careful,” Kitt warned. “Yes, I am, but they’re crotchless. If you get in a hurry, we can fuck without taking them off.”
“I know what else I can do through that open slit.” He ran his tongue around his lips. “Wait till we get to the next stop light, and I’ll show you.”
“Rob…”
She was going to say, “Stop speeding.”
But he was chuckling and his dimpled smile took her breath away. Life would be a roller coaster married to Rob Harrison, Summerville’s Bad Boy, with all the thrills she craved in life. But she no longer feared that the highs and lows and twists and turns would be more than they could survive. The love that had bridged all these years of waiting would see them through.
