I say, as I go to one of my guitar cases and pull out a small blue box.
When I turn back around, she’s sitting on the bed, looking at her hands in her lap. My Rosie looks sad, and it kills me to have upset her. I put the little box in my robe pocket and walk toward her. Once in front of her, I drop to my knees and wait for her eyes to find mine.
“Time for a little truth,” I say in an attempt to be funny. “Rosie Kelly, I love you. I think I have from our very first date.”
“Then why won’t you make love to me?” she asks with hurt in her voice.
“I don’t want to fuck this up. At first, it was because I wanted to make sure I was clean. You know I’ve been with plenty of women, and I didn’t want you to be worried about anything.”
“We both know you’re clean, and those tests were a long, long time ago. Is it me?”
“No, Rosie, it’s not you. I’m worried you won’t want me anymore; I’m afraid if we take this last step, I’ll fuck it up, and you’ll leave.”
“Truth, don’t you know I love you, too? Do you really think I’d still be here if I didn’t?” she asks placing her hands over my own.
“I have a way of fixing this, if you’ll have me?”
She pulls my hands away from her face and tilts her head to the side. “Baby, I’ll try anything. How do we fix this?”
I pull the little blue box out of my robe, and she sucks in a breath. Shock goes across her features, and her mouth hangs open.
“Rosie Kelly.” I open the box to reveal a ruby ring, surrounded by diamonds in a platinum setting. It’s an antique, and as soon as I saw it, I knew it was meant to be hers. “Will you marry me?”
Rosie covers her face with her hands and begins to cry. I have no idea what to do, her cries go from soft to loud then sobbing in a matter of moments. I get up off my knees, pick her up, and sit on the couch in our suite with Rosie on my lap. I’m stroking her hair whispering to her as she slowly calms down.
“How is this supposed to fix things?” she asks as she uses the robe to wipe her face.
“Legally you’ll be mine, and you can’t leave me then. You’ll be bound to me, and I’ll have the paperwork to prove it.”
“You’re an idiot. I’m already bound to you. Do you really think I’d follow you around the world, live in your houses and wait in hotel rooms for you if I wasn’t already madly in love with you?”
“Then say yes, Rosie. Marry me, and I promise to make you the happiest woman on the planet, forever.”
I hold up the box, and tentatively she takes it. She pulls the ring out of the box and lets it fall to the floor. I take the ring off her and place it on her ring finger of her left hand. I look at her expectantly, hoping she’ll give me a sign that this is what she wants.
A smile spreads across her face, and she nods. I hadn’t realized I was holding my breath, I exhale, and push the ring all the way down her finger.
Rosie climbs off my lap, only to get back on, straddling me. “Does this mean we can have sex now ?”
“No, I want to wait till we’re married. I want to do this right. Rosie, I want this to last forever.”
She places both hands on my face and kisses me, grinding her hips into my lap as she does. The fluffy robe isn’t fluffy enough for me not to feel what she’s doing. A groan escapes me, and she deepens the kiss, gyrating faster over my engorged cock.
“All we need to do is open your robe, and you can have me completely. Mind, body, and soul,” whispers Rosie as she sucks on my ear lobe.
I push up, and she moans, opening my robe further exposing my chest.
“Can you wait? I’ll get Dave to organize a quick wedding–“
She stops her teasing and sits back, looking at me. “Truth, I can’t do a quick wedding. My family will want to be involved and my friends back in Tourmaline. I couldn’t do that to them.”
I draw in a breath and slowly let it out. Of course, she’d want a big wedding surrounded by those she loves but