Kresley could see Cade’s demeanor shift. He suddenly became very quiet and focused. She began to worry for a moment, but that changed quickly as she listened to what he said next.
“Baby, I’ve lived my life for 30 plus years, wandering around, lost. And I didn’t even realize it. I thought I was living. I thought I had all of life’s answers. But the day I met you, the day I found you, was the day I breathed for the first time. I know I’m not perfect. I have flaws. I know you aren’t perfect. You have flaws, too. But together we are perfect. So perfect that it takes my breath away. I’ve known this for a while. Hell, we both said as much the first time we made love. But until the day that I picked this out for you, when I saw it for the first time and knew that it was yours, was meant to be yours, it hadn’t settled in my mind that you were going to be mine. And I would be yours.”
Cade pulled something from his pocket. It was a small navy-blue velvet bag. Kresley watched with an increasing heartbeat, as Cade pulled a beautiful ring out. Kresley looked up at him, staring into his gorgeous blue eyes, needing to see him and the love and need shining there.
“I chose this ring for you because it symbolizes how you and I have been separate entities for so long, but we now want to be fused together, forever. To be made into one solid force that no one can break apart”, Cade stated quietly. He took her left hand in his, and kissed her ring finger at the knuckle. He then took the ring and pushed it up over the tip of her finger then stopped. He looked at Kresley’s face, looked deep into her eyes and said with his deep, gruff voice, “Kresley James Anderson, you are the love of my life, my everything. You make me happier than anything or anyone else. I can’t live without you. I don’t want to. I want to picture you with me forever. Will you marry me?” Cade held his breath and waited for her answer.
Kresley looked at Cade’s face, his eyes, his mouth, his nose with the slight bump in it, his chin and his heavy whiskers. She could see dried tear tracks on his cheeks, but knew he would never admit to her that he had cried earlier. He was hers. Forever. “Cade, oh my beautiful Cade. Yes, I will marry you. Wait, let me rephrase that. Hell yeah I’ll marry you!”, Kresley stated with joy, yelling out that last sentence so loud that possibly the neighbors heard her across the street. She watched as Cade pushed the princess cut diamond onto her ring finger. Kresley looked down at it and it did represent she and Cade. It was rose gold and white gold, two bands twined around each other in a never-ending circle. On top was a large princess cut diamond, flawless. And on each side were two smaller diamonds with beautiful clusters of emeralds trailing down. It was so beautiful. Unique. Like them.
“Do you like it baby? I looked a good long while until I saw it. I took one look and knew it was yours”, Cade said softly, looking at her face to see how she liked the ring.
“Big Sexy, you know me so well. It’s beautiful baby. I don’t have the right words to describe how beautiful it is to me. But it could have been a simple band of gold with nothing else and it would have still been beautiful. Because it came from you. That’s all that matters. “Oh my gosh! We’re getting married Cade! Us! Getting married. To each other. Forever. We’re going to have so much sex and lots of babies!”, Kresley exclaimed, laughing with joy and teasing.
Cade pulled her closer to his body on the couch, her still in his lap with legs around him. “I guarantee all of that baby. Every damn bit. Oh, and you are not going to plan your own wedding. I forbid it. You’re going to enjoy it without the stress. And I don’t care how we get married. Big wedding. Small service. Vegas chapel, or a tiny, old church in the middle of Cade’s Cove, Tennessee with just us and your sisters and Grace. It doesn’t matter to me. As long as you’re mine at the end of our wedding day. That’s all I want. Well that and one of those kick-ass robot vacuum cleaners as a wedding gift”, Cade stated with a wink. “Now woman, you do realize that I have not kissed you today, not once. Can we seal this marriage agreement with a kiss already? I miss those lips on mine.”
Kresley grinned and leaned into him, her left hand going up to rest against his face, her ring shining out of the corner of her eye. Then her eyes closed as their mouths touched. Cade let out a hungry growl and then he was consuming her. He was taking her mouth how he wanted to, with no apologies. His tongue dove past her wet, lush lips, lashing at hers, battling with it for dominance. He pushed hers around until she followed him back as he retreated and her tongue soon tangled inside his mouth, sucking on his tongue, his bottom lip, licking and stroking him. Their mouths were voracious, turning and twisting over each other’s lips again and again. It was full of hunger and need. It was dirty. Hot. Wet.
