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“You’ve got to go… and I need to leave…”
“I know…”
“Then why are we still sitting here…” he chuckled in a panicked, desperate voice. “I’m not taking you to bed until we are married.”
“I told you three or four dates,” she countered distractedly, turning his lips towards her again – only for him to pull away laughing again.
“Honey, you saidfourorfivedates,” he countered playfully. “We’ve been on two dates.”
“Two to go,” she shrugged, beaming at him. “One can be at the courthouse on Monday morning.”
“I thought I was bringing you coffee and moving my insurance policy to your office,” he grinned.
“And then we’ll go get married.”
“Niki…” he whispered, pulling her hands off his shoulders. “Honey, we’ve got to stop because I refuse to cross a line without doing the right thing by you.”
“Then do it,” she said simply.
“Marriage is important,” he whispered, searching her eyes. “Do you know what you are asking of me? I mean, this is forever. I don’t intend to get married ever again and you have to be sure. If you told me ‘No’now, then it wouldn’t be a problem. I would someday heal, my heart would scar over, and eventually I would pick up the pieces of my soul.”
“I know what marriage is,” she whispered softly, not turning away from him. “I want your name, your heart, your soul, your love, Luke. Marriageisforever – a bond between us that can never be broken. You would be mine and I would be yours. We would make a home, have a family, and I love the idea of knowing that my best friend would be my lover - and my husband.”
“You aren’t scared that we would be making a huge mistake?”
“Do you see a mistake in my eyes when you look at me, touch me, or when we talk?”
“Never…” Luke whispered to her, his eyes holding hers, shiny with emotion, as he tucked her hair behind her ear tenderly. “You are the brightest diamond in a world full of pebbles, lost in a riverbed… just waiting until some lucky person wins your heart and discovers the real you.”
“I’ve been waiting foryou…” she breathed emphatically.
“You arepressuringme, and I cannot provide for you yet,” he said softly, his voice full of apology. “Let’s go flying tomorrow and you’ll see how others react to us being together. Just think what it will be like if they find out that we snuck off to get married?”
“They’ll be happy.”
“They’llburyme,” he blurted out in a nervous chuckle.
“Then let’s go flying. We’ll see how everyone responds, and finish talking tomorrow – deal?”
“Deal,” he smiled tenderly. “Now off my lap, so I can think.”
“I kinda like where I am.”
“I kinda like where you are, too… but dang, Niki?! You are killing me slowly.”
“Doesn’tNicolette Fullersound incredible?”
“Yeah, it does,” he laughed tenderly, hugging her. “You are scary-pushy when you set your mind on something, aren’t you, honey?”
“It’s a Saxon trait, you lucky boy.”
“I guess so.”
CHAPTER5
Sunday morning, they drove out to have breakfast together before heading towards Flyboys. She knew he was incredibly nervous and had every right to be.
Her father was working today.
