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Everyone was jumping the gun. Not considering the reality of the matter.
Savannah didn't belong in Junction She was a high society little girl and despite the fact that he admired her more every moment he was with her, he couldn't ask her to give up what she had for him. Could he?
And no one was going to throw him a shotgun wedding. If he got married it would be on his own, not prodded by a long barrel.
"You certainly didn't act as though you loved me last night," she said emphatically.
"Didn't I?" his eyes never left hers.
"You mean...you didn't make love to me...because—you love me?" she barely uttered the words, as though it just dawned on her what he was all about. She narrowed in on him.
When he smiled but didn't answer, she probed further, "Is that what you are telling me?"
"Now see here, Savannah.” her mother seemed flabbergasted.
"Yes, that's what I'm telling you. It was the hardest thing I've ever done, but yes!" He turned and started to go into the house. "A man doesn't take advantage of the one he loves."
"And you aren't going to give me the chance to tell you how much I love you?" she shouted to his back.
"You do?" he asked, not turning around, but his shoulders bunching and knotting and then relaxing as he finally turned around with a big smile on his face.
"An unless you marry me, very soon, I promise I'll run away again..." she giggled.
"Savannah..." he murmured as he slowly walked toward her.
"Oh Ben..." she cried as his arms came out and wrapped about her, pulling her into him and smothering her with a kiss that threatened to undermine all his better intentions. They seemed oblivious to her parents.
"Savannah, really...the man is supposed to do the asking," her mother prompted but finally gave in just a bit, when they refused to stop kissing.
"What are we going to do with her, she's grown impossible?" Melanie ran to her husband's side.
Mr. Kingsley laughed, "Doesn't look like it's our problem any longer, dear!"
"And that's for sure," Ben murmured as he felt Savannah melt into his arms again. He pulled away, and smiled down into her love- drugged face, "She might be trouble but she's my trouble."
"I'm not sleeping with you until we are married, you know."
"I know…God help me!" He chuckled and pulled her straight into his arms for another melting kiss.
The End
