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My mouth opened and closed several times before I got a word out.
“But what about a dress and all the other stuff?”
“Do you want a white dress, little bird? If you do I’ll turn the world upside down to get it for you.”
I really didn’t want a white wedding. Or a dress. I hardly ever wore dresses.
And then I had a thought.
A wedding sari is red. I would be wearing red. For my mother.
It seemed I had to add a clothing store to my shopping itinerary.
“I don’t want a white dress, it’s not me. And I don’t want all that wedding stuff we did for River and Ice. I just want to walk towards you and our boys and get married.” I smiled up at him. “Can we keep it simple? No big fanfare. We’ll have to tell Bulldog and Suzy because he has to do the ceremony. I’m sure you’re going to want Ice and Spider to stand with you and they will come in handy to hold the boys while we do our thing.”
He kissed me slow and thoroughly then lifted his head slightly so we could look into each other’s eyes.
“Doc is going to want to give you away, baby. You have to let him. And what about Deena? Do you think she’ll want to stand with you?”
He looked a little worried.
He was right to be worried. Deena was still being a little bitch and not talking to me. Things between her and Dollar weren’t going well either. She was pushing him further and further away. If she wasn’t careful she was going to lose him.
“No she won’t. She’s still being a bitch and has declined the invitation to lunch. Dad is forcing her to attend with him. I really have no clue what is going on in her head. I’d rather have no attendants then no one can say I favoured one above the other.”
Like my sister.
“I’m good with it if you are. I’ll be happy with just us and the boys but I know it isn’t possible. We keep our circle small, Bulldog, Ice and Spider. They can hold the boys while Bulldog marries us.” He said as he dropped his head and kissed me on my forehead.
“I have something for you, baby.” He leant to the side and pulled open his bedside drawer and scrabbling in the back brought out a red velvet ring box. “I’ve had this for a while and I’ve wanted to give it to you on more than one occasion. The time just never seemed right. Now it is.”
Sitting back on his haunches he opened the box, took out the ring then closed and dropped the little box on the bed beside us. I watched entranced as he slid the ring on my finger.
It was beautiful and something I would have chosen if given the opportunity.
“The band is platinum and the stone is a yellow diamond. I did the basic design but the designer did the rest. She had a lot of questions, like your job and what you were like. She said you needed a ring you could wear every day with no need to take it off when you were working. I asked her to make my ring as well. It looks like yours, but more masculine and has a black diamond where yours is yellow.” He explained quietly as he watched me twist my hand from side to side.
“I love it. It’s exactly what I would have chosen if you had asked me to choose.”
It was a very wide, slightly bevelled, thick band, reaching from my knuckle to the base of my finger. Intricate engraving covered it and I knew it had to mean something. I would work it out once I had a chance to study it.
All I wanted to do right now was admire the way it looked on my finger.
The diamond was sunk into the band, the engraving making it look like the eye of a hawk. One look was enough to know it wouldn’t catch on my gloves when I pulled them on.
My man wasn’t finished though.
“I’m not giving you a wedding band, this is it, an engagement ring and wedding band in one, and you only get to wear it tonight. It goes back in the box until I put it on your finger on our wedding day.”
Such a controlling ass, but he was my controlling ass.
“Fine, but I want to see your ring. Where is it?”
With a grin he picked up the box and pulled a bigger and heavier ring out. There was no way in hell anyone is going to miss that ring on his finger. I took it from him and twisted it around. It was exactly like mine, wide, thick and bevelled. Even the engraving was the same, everything except the diamond was black. I saw there was something inside the ring as I twisted it.
There was an engraving running from one side of the diamond to the other.
Property of his Little Bird. Eternally Loved.
