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“More than I ever imagined was possible,” I replied. I was waiting for her to respond. To tell me she loved me too. She’d said that she was falling for me. But was that the same? It was close, but that didn't mean love. “I…I don’t know what else to say.” That was the truth. I professed my love.
“I’m trying to let you do the talking, the explaining. You know, letting you have control,” she said.
“Huh?” I was lost. “I don’t understand.”
“My little birdie also told me to let you do the talking and for me to basically keep quiet for once,” she explained.
I laughed. “Your bird has no idea what I love about you. You’re outspoken and confident, and you don’t take my shit. Never feel as though you need to be anything but yourself with me. Because that’s the woman I fell in love with.”
Kinsley’s eyes teared up. “I love you too, Draven. I’ve been miserable without you. Every time you called, I wanted to answer. I was just afraid of what you were going to say. My heart couldn’t take you pushing me further away.”
I reached out and scooped her up in my arms and sat her on my lap. “Sweetheart, I wasn’t trying to push you away. I was trying to ensure we could have a future together. I realize now that I was wrong. That we are better together. And if you give me another chance, I promise, I’ll try my darndest not to fuck up again.”
She smiled. “I have full confidence that you will, and so will I. We are just human and we’re both going to make mistakes. I just want one promise from you.”
“What is that?”
She wrapped her arms around my neck, “That when we do, you won’t ever let me go. We will figure it out together. Even if it is scary, or dangerous. We figure it out as one.”
I kissed her and said, “That, my love, I can promise you.”
Kissing her again, I felt a thumping on my calf. I broke our embrace and looked down.
“What the fuck!”
Marley was getting more action than me.
Kinsley got up and said, “Sorry Marley. You’re sitting this one out.”
She picked him up and carried him out of the room. Even before she returned, I could hear him howling and scratching at the door.
“What did you do with him? Put him in the bedroom?”
“God no. I was hoping we were heading there. He’s locked in the bathroom. We will have to deal with him eventually when we have to pee,” she giggled. Taking my hand she said, “And since I don’t want that to be for a while, I hope you don’t find it rude that I’m not offering you a beer.”
I reached down and lifted her high into my arms and winced. “I have everything I need right here.”
“Draven, you’re still hurt. We shouldn’t…”
“If we don’t, I’m going to be hurting a lot more,” I growled.
Kinsley laughed. “You’re lucky.”
“I know I am, but why do you think so?” I asked, excited to hear.
“Because I love you more than chocolate, and Ireallylove chocolate.”
Everything felt right again. I hadn’t lost her. And the words that I had been afraid to say, now flowed so easily from my lips. Those three words I wanted to tell her every day for the rest of our lives.
Take it slow. We don’t have to rush. Neither of us is going anywhere. Not again.
Before I carried her to her bedroom, I grabbed the box of chocolates off the table. “I see no reason why you can’t have both.”
She bit her bottom lip and said, “Now that sounds like a delicious idea.”
“I love you, Kinsley.”
“I love you too.”
