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“You seem excited about this one, Sweetheart,” he commented as I was practically bouncing when I passed it to him, needing both hands as it was heavy in its box.
“I am, so please be quick and open it.” However, when he started to tease me by peeling the tape back as slowly as possible, I growled, making him chuckle before tearing it off. Then as he opened the box and took out its contents, he simply stared down at the small clear ball in his hands, dumbstruck. He seemed totally lost for words.
“Oh, Amelia.”My name left his lips on a whispered breath before he grabbed me to him and held me tight, as if overcome with emotions.
“Do you like it?”I whispered in his ear, making him answer,
“I love it… it’s the most perfect gift anyone has ever given me…it’s our Poppy.”I sighed happily, glad that I had waited to give it to him until now. I’d actually had the idea to preserve it somehow and told Liessa about it, and amazingly she had come up with the perfect solution…Ruto.
I was surprised to find that in his spare time he and his husband Keto or as I like to call them, the ‘ToTo twins’, actually created art with resin. So, I had them set the flower in a resin ball so clear it looked like glass. This had a black obsidian base that his brother Dariush had helped me get from his Realm in Hell as I wanted the black and red to represent us both.
“It’s a flower?” Pip said, sticking her head closer and looking for herself as, clearly, her curiosity had gotten too much for her. I looked back at Lucius and answered…
“No… it’s our flower.”
24
FATHER-IN-LAW WISDOM
LUCIUS
Ihad to admit, that the thought of celebrating a day that was supposed to represent the birth of Christ had always left a sour note on my tongue. But after recent events and the peace they had awarded me, I found my reasons of distain for the holiday were no more. In fact, just seeing how much Amelia wanted this and had tried to convince me… or should I say,how easily she had convinced me,then it made me want to give her this all the more.
As time went on, and I saw her excitement growing, I found it was infectious and I started to enjoy certain elements the season brought immensely. For starters, it didn’t come as a surprise that I would relish being able to shop for gifts to give Amelia, knowing what she would like. Now, what had been a surprise was the excited eagerness that would continually build inside me, waiting for the day to come that I could finally to give them to her, knowing of the smiles she would gift me in return.
But it had also been the little things too. Like decorating our home together, watching Christmas themed movies, although, most of which I had lost focus in pretty quickly as they most defiantly lacked any violence. Although, I had enjoyed the one with the kid who defended his home against thieves’ and pretty much tortured the poor bastards. Now that had been entertaining.
But there had been something surprisingly serene about our lives together, a sort of comfort of the likes I had never known. Our daily routine suited me very well, when I had never previously believed such a thing could happen to me. Not when I thought back on what my life had been like before her. Because a mundane life as an immortal was a dangerous thing, which was why you were constantly trying to chase the next excitement in life. And yet it was now those mundane things that I found the most exciting. It was like I was experiencing them for the first time and never feeling like I had even lived before there was Amelia. Like I had simply been…
Existing.
As for now, well the girl even had me baking cookies with her, and bizarrely still, I had enjoyed it. Although what I had enjoyed more were the parts where I got to watch her as flour got in her hair, or the way she didn’t even realize she had smears of icing on her cheek. The way she would bend every time she checked the oven in those Gods be damned yoga pants of hers! Pants that I knew she only wore to tease me, the vixen! And now that I had finally taken that phenomenal ass of hers… well, for now I knew the sheer erotic pleasure there was to be had in such a place.
All of these things combined led to a blissfully happy marriage that I had quickly become addicted to being a part of. Life was good. Better than good. It was fucking great! Hence why I didn’t want a single thing to change that. But this then became my battling thoughts, for there was something that Amelia wanted and it was something that would disrupt this daily bliss. These warring thoughts that pushed against each other until eventually, I knew which one would win. Which was why this last gift I gave her, I knew was going to be the biggest yet, for nothing would beat it. Not even if I bought her every set of Lego ever created.
Although personally, nothing would ever beat the flower she’d had immortalized for me. For that had been like her handing over a piece of her heart. A piece of her soul represented, just like when giving her vows on our wedding day, for nothing could be more special. A gift I would treasure forever.
But now it was time for her gift in return and amazingly, I actually found myself nervous.
“What is it?” she asked like she always did, despite the very reason for wrapping up gifts being the surprise from opening them. However, I had already teased her enough throughout this gift giving ritual and major focus of the day.
“Open it and find out,” I said gently, as she looked at the thin rectangular piece of wrapping.
“Is it a very thin book?” she asked, making me laugh,
“Just open it.” Seriously, she was killing me here and now I knew what teasing her felt like when I had purposely gone slow at pulling off the paper. I looked around now, glancing at the others who had all finished with their own gifts, now focusing on the two of us. It was as if they all sensed this was a special moment. Like I was giving off a nervous vibe or something. Gods, but I was turning soft and did I fucking care…
Not. One. Fucking. Bit.
“Lucius? What is this?” she asked when finally she was past the paper and now looking down at the folder in her hands.
“Open it, Love,” I said softly for the third time, before she did and the moment the architectural drawings came spilling out into her hand, a sudden realization dawned on her.
“Is this… is this really… really what I think it is?”she asked, her voice getting thick with the emotions I could see bubbling up, making her hands actually shake. Fuck but she had wanted this.No, she had dreamed of this.Which meant that I now knew that despite not wanting things to change, I had made the right decision. Because she deserved this. Deserved this type of happiness, and damn but it felt so fucking good to be the one able to give that to her.
“It is, wife,” I told her with my own voice sounding strained as these new feelings made my chest feel tight.
“You… you…you got me a museum?”she asked in a tone that was utterly astonished, and the second I nodded, my own voice failing me as I saw the tears now swimming in her beautiful eyes as she suddenly launched herself in my arms.
