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That same Christmas
I watch her as everyone opens their gifts and she waits for me to finally man up and ask the question she has been dying for me to ask for the past four years. I fight the smirk from breaking free when all the presents are opened and still, she has no ring. She drops her gaze to her lap and tries to fight the sadness from overshadowing her day with the family. Corvin proposed to Alexa on Christmas and I refuse to take a leaf out of his book. I never do things the way people expect me to which is why, I’m not proposing to her today.
She stays in a sour mood for the rest of the day. Beck is shooting me daggers every chance he gets, but I ignore it. Saint and Crue are too wrapped up in chasing their demonic kids around. Honest to God, Karma got them good because Adalyn is so much like Saint while Alister is like Crue and fuck, it’s hilarious watching them both fight with kids daily. Corvin chooses to turn a blind eye to anything with me and his sister, it’s better that way so it doesn’t come between us and our friendship.
For the next six days Leah barely speaks to me. She won’t even angry fuck, and now I’m starting to get fucking pissed off because the girl is icing me out. I’m not down with not being able to sink my cock into her every night. Being inside her pussy is my happy place, and the fact she is denying me is going to make my revenge so much sweeter when she realizes she has been a fucking brat. She’ll be on her knees three times a day sucking up to me. Yes, I said sucking because that is the only way she is going to make this up to me.
* * *
“Corv, I need a word.” At the serious tone of my voice, he doesn’t fuck around. He gets off the sofa and follows me outside onto the deck. I shiver from the cold but I have to do this, I can’t go behind his back.
“Dude, it’s freezing, what’s up?” I stare at my best friend and hope to God he doesn't give me a black eye.
“I love your sister.”
He frowns. “I know.”
Shaking my head, I push on. “No, I mean I love her so fucking much, and honestly, I know at the start I played offside with some of the dumb shit I did, but I can’t live without her.”
Corvin looks worried. “What the fuck is going on, Darius?”
Sucking a deep breath, I decide to just come out with it. “I want your blessing to ask Leah to marry me. I love you, brother, but even if you say no, I’m going to marry her anyway because I fucking love her, Corv. She is mine and I won’t ever let her go—”
He cuts me off by placing a hand on my shoulder and smiling wide. “I’ve been waiting for you to man up and make an honest woman out of her. I’d love nothing more than to see my sister happy and I know you are the reason why she smiles so much. I love my sister, D. I also know you love her way more than I ever could. You have my blessing, brother, always.”
* * *
It’s close to ten by the time Crue and Saint get their kids to bed. They both look fucking wrecked and I can’t help but laugh at them when they walk into the living room. “Go fuck yourself, asshole,” Saint quips out.
“Let’s not, I don’t want to know what my sister does,” Corvin chimes in from his place at the counter.
“Well, your sister isn’t doing him,” Leah grits out from her place next to Beck on the sofa across from me.
“Oh snap,” Crue gleefully says as he drops down beside me and flings his arm around my shoulders. I smack the fucker away and pin him with a glare.
“Don’t be mad at him because you’re a jackass.” Oh fuck this, I’m on my feet in a second glaring down at my girlfriend. Crue, Saint, Beck and even Corvin stand and creep toward me. I roll my eyes as I look at each of them.
“Let’s get shit clear here, okay?” I say to the guys. “Crowd around me all you like but I’m never going to lay a hand on her no matter how fucking crazy she makes me. The only place I will beat her is in her pants, and lets be real, Corv, your sister loves it when I beat that pussy up.” Corvin rushes me but Beck intervenes and holds him back. Leah stands and pushes into me.
“You are a real prick—”
“And you fucking love it, Goldie. Now shut up and listen.” She clamps her mouth closed. I hear Alexa, Val and Katie gasp from behind me but I ignore them. “You are such an impatient brat. You drive me fucking crazy and make me question my sanity daily.” Her face falls and fear begins to fill her eyes thinking I’m about to break up with her. “But, I wouldn’t have it any other way because I love your crazy ass. You were made for me, Goldie. We all get one chance at finding our perfect match in life, and your psychotic ass is mine.” Tears trail down her cheeks. I gently cup her face between my hands and stare into her eyes. “I’m sorry for ever making you doubt what you mean to me. I love you with everything that I am. I’m nothing without you, Leah. You are the only girl I have ever kissed, you’re the first girl I have ever loved and risked everything for. There is no way in hell I would ever let you go, even if you wanted to. I had planned to do this at midnight, but you had to go and be all dramatic and piss me off.”
She chuckles but I see the nervousness in her eyes. I place a quick kiss to her lips as I step back, grip the box from my back pocket and lower to one knee. Her hands come up to cover her mouth as tears flow freely down her cheeks, peering down at me. I open the box to show her the black diamond ring on a white gold band that is encrusted with little diamonds.
“Leah Williams, I have loved you since I was sixteen years old. You were my first crush, my first and only love. You make me a better man and I want to spend the rest of my life with you. Fuck, Goldie, just say yes and marry me so I can finally call youLeah Lockhart.”
“I love you too,” she cries out as she drops to her knees in front of me, wraps her arms around my neck and meshes her lips to mine. I deepen the kiss without thought and fucking love the way she melts into me, then it clicks in my mind.
Pulling back I break the kiss and ask, “So, is that a yes?”
She smiles. “Fuck yes, you scored the touchdown, halfback.”
