31 Days of Autumn

by Fallowfield, C. J.

  ‘So, how about a bit of reminiscing while they’re all distracted,’ Dan whispered, moving his lips to kiss my neck in that spot he had memorised so early in our relationship, the one that made me amenable to anything and everything. ‘I’d like to make love to you, Ellie Davenport,’ he advised, sending a frisson of excitement through my body.

  ‘We’d need to be quick, before we’re missed,’ I warned him.

  ‘Trust me, at my age, I’m always quick,’ he chuckled.

  ‘Yet still a hell of a lot longer than Matt and Zac,’ I winked, ‘in all respects.’

  ‘Maybe Jonas got his smooth talking from you,’ he grinned, pecking my lips. ‘Give me five minutes and meet me down there.’

  ‘Why five minutes?’ I asked, frowning as he let go of me. I missed his touch already.

  ‘Will you ever learn to just do as you’re told, woman?’ he replied with a shake of his head, as he disappeared into the utility room to sneak out of the back door the security team used. Andy and Chris had obviously retired, too old for this line of work now and replaced by some younger versions, but we kept in touch. As we did with James, he was part of our family now, having put his life on the line for us. After those few days I’d spent with him underground, we shared an unbreakable bond now. We hadn’t seen Dean since that day in the bunker after Jenny’s funeral. He’d gone to Australia to stay with a friend and had never returned, though he kept in touch with Dan. He ended up taking a pilot’s job for an airline company over there, where he’d eventually met someone and got married and had his own family. I was pleased that he was able to find some happiness, Jenny would have wanted that for him.

  ‘Stroke face,’ Brooke whispered, making me jump to find her next to me.

  ‘Charming,’ I uttered as I turned to face her. ‘What do you mean?’

  ‘You’re in a world of your own, staring into space, open-mouthed. What’s up?’

  ‘Just looking at everyone, thinking how lucky I am to have you all here,’ I smiled, linking my arm through hers. Molly had moved to sit with Luiza. They were chatting while she plaited Eva’s long hair.

  ‘We have an amazing family, don’t we?’ Brooke nodded. I loved that she included herself in that, because she was.

  ‘We do, all thanks to you.’ I kissed her cheek.

  ‘Why me? I didn’t squirt them all out.’

  ‘You made me book the boathouse the day I left Zac. All of this started because of you, Brooke Hanson. Without you, I’d never have met Dan or had my three wonderful children.’

  ‘Well, I didn’t want to remind you that you owed me, but maybe the time’s come to return the favour,’ she teased. ‘Where’s lover boy?’

  ‘Hopefully naked and hard, waiting for me in the boathouse for a quickie.’

  ‘Still at it like a pair of energiser bunnies,’ she laughed. ‘I’m amazed your vagina can still spring back after the amount of action it’s seen over the years.’

  ‘Me too,’ I giggled. ‘Honestly, if the police did a vagina line-up for a flashing forty-eight year old woman, no one would pick me as the culprit in a million years. Mine must have the premature wrinkles of a ninety year old's, it will be that haggard from overuse.’

  ‘Someone needs to invent a cream for fanny aging,’ she suggested.

  ‘Honestly, I’d rather they perfect a facial one. I hate looking in the mirror and seeing lines. Where did the time go?’

  ‘Look around you, at where we are and what we have. I’d say it went mostly into the happiest times of our lives,’ Brooke stated as she kissed me. ‘You still look stunning, Ellie Davenport. You’re as beautiful on the outside as you are on the inside. You always have been, that’s why I picked you as my best friend. No one has a heart as big as you do. Now go and get your orgasm over with and hurry back, before I miss you.’

  ‘Love you, miss you already,’ I giggled as I hugged her.

  ‘Love you, miss you, too,’ she replied, hugging me even tighter. ‘Karaoke party when you return?’ she asked hopefully.

  ‘Sure,’ I smiled. I winked at her as I disappeared into the utility and slipped out, virtually skipping my way down to the boathouse. I always thought of Jenny whenever I saw it, but it had been home to Brooke and Molly for so many years that it didn’t feel disrespectful for Dan and I to use it as an escape from time to time.

  ‘Dan,’ I whispered to myself, smiling as I saw he’d put on the Christmas lights outside. He was finally a festive season convert, so different to the Dan I’d met all those years ago. Now he loved having his family around him at this time of year, any time in fact. Stan, the mercurial woodcutter I’d met, had definitely been retired for good. I knocked on the door, feeling like an excited schoolgirl. I could well be Eva fawning over Greyson, I was that in love still.

  ‘Come,’ he called, a mischievous air to his deep masculine voice.

  ‘O, I plan on it,’ I laughed as I stepped inside, then stalled in the doorway. There were no lights on. Instead, he’d lit the log burner and a huge number of candles, which bathed the white interior in a soft glow, showing off bouquets of red roses on nearly every conceivable surface. The scent of them was heady. I blinked, surprised to see him on one knee on the floor holding a Havershams ring box. I closed the door and shook my head as I looked at him. ‘Have you suddenly developed Alzheimer’s? Have you forgotten that we’re already married?’ I asked, not sure what was happening.

  ‘No,’ he laughed, ‘my memory is perfectly intact. I know it’s not twenty-two years since we got married, or started officially dating, but it’s an anniversary of the moment I knew that I’d found the woman I wanted to spend the rest of my life with.’

  ‘It took sex to make you think that?’ I faked a scowl and put my hands on my hips to back it up. I loved teasing him.

  ‘No, shit no,’ he uttered with a crestfallen face. ‘I knew that you were special the moment I saw your photograph, hence my elaborate, and ill-advised, charade. But sex with you, falling asleep with you after sharing such an intimate moment, just reinforced how strongly I felt about you. Get over here, will you, I’m fifty bloody six, my knee can’t handle waiting on these hard floor boards for much longer.’

  ‘Ruining the whole romance of it,’ I laughed, stepping towards him.

  ‘Ellie Davenport, you’ve spent twenty-two years making me the happiest man alive, will you do me the honour of agreeing to spend the next twenty-two doing just that?’ he asked, as he held one of my hands in his.

  ‘No,’ I replied as I shook my head, a look of confusion crossing his face. ‘Because twenty-two years is nothing, I want to agree to spend every last one of our years doing just that.’

  ‘Jesus, you nearly gave me a heart attack, woman,’ he laughed, lifting my hand to kiss it and making my stomach do back flips. ‘I’ve arranged for everyone from our wedding to come for a renewal of our wedding vows in the cabin for New Years’ Eve. James and Stuart are flying up, Lucas and Summer are coming over, even John and Edward are hopping off their cruise for a few days so they don’t miss it.’

  ‘You have?’ I felt some tears rolling down my face, touched that he still put so much effort into our relationship after so long.

  ‘It will be a night to remember,’ he smiled. ‘I roped in Luiza, Eva, Molly, and Brooke to help. I even had your wedding dress steam-cleaned for the day, I thought I’d want you to look as beautiful as you did that day, but then I realised that’s not possible. Every day my love for you grows, along with your beauty. You still take my breath away, Ellie.’

  ‘You do mine,’ I whimpered as I gazed down at him, overflowing with emotion. He opened the ring box and slipped a stunning heart-shaped emerald, with two small heart-shaped diamonds on either side, onto my right hand. ‘Dan, it’s beautiful,’ I gasped as I gazed at it, the candle and firelight fracturing off each bevelled edge and making it sparkle. ‘It’s so beautiful, thank you.’

  I dropped to my knees in front of him, clasped his face, and kissed him passionately, letting him fee
l how much I appreciated what he’d done, what he was doing for us. He quickly pulled me down onto the sheepskin rug in front of the fire, weaving his fingers into my hair as he sank his powerful tongue into my willing mouth while I dug my fingers into his pert backside and groaned.

  ‘Mum, Dad, seriously? That’s totally gross at your age.’

  We broke apart laughing as we looked up to see Oliver standing in the doorway, holding Lottie’s hand. He looked really bummed out to have had his obviously sneaky night of passion, without all of our family listening in, ruined.

  ‘I could still teach you a lesson or two in romance, son,’ chuckled Dan. ‘Take the boat and go and see Tina at the hotel. She’ll let you have the penthouse suite, which I’d reserved ready for your mum and I for our event.’

  ‘Thanks, Dad, you’re the best,’ he grinned, tugging Lottie out.

  ‘Sorry, Mr. and Mrs. Davenport,’ she grimaced over her shoulder, a flush spreading across her cheeks.

  ‘Son?’ Dan called, making Oliver look back.

  ‘What, Dad?’

  ‘Use protection, for Christ’s sake, ok? And be prepared for Lottie’s father to punch you when he finds out, because if that was Eva being whisked off to a hotel right now, I wouldn’t be so understanding.’

  ‘Yes, Dad,’ he groaned, rolling his eyes and shutting the door as Lottie and I giggled.

  ‘You didn’t have to embarrass him like that in front of her,’ I laughed, cuffing his shoulder as he lay on his side looking down at me.

  ‘She’s only two years older than Eva and I’d be furious if she came home pregnant at nineteen, let alone to find out she was having sex. Trust me, Lottie’s father doesn’t know she’s having sex or he wouldn’t have allowed her to come and stay with us. He’d have her at home under lock and key. Just like I’ll want to do with our daughter.’

  ‘Come back down here and kiss me, then make love to me like you promised, instead of getting so worked up,’ I smiled, pulling him down to meet my lips. ‘I love that you’re so protective of our family. I love you, Oliver Daniel Davenport.’

  ‘I love you too, Ellie Davenport.’

  ‘Thank you so much for this, for all of the effort you’ve gone to, for arranging another wedding for us and for my beautiful ring. I can’t believe all of the trouble you’ve gone to. You must have spent so much money. Surely you know by now that I love you whether …’

  ‘Christ, woman, twenty-two years and you still don’t know when to shut up,’ he laughed, interrupting me as he reached to brush my hair out of my face.

  ‘I just want you to know how much I appreciate everything that you do for me, Dan.’

  ‘Don’t worry about it. The moment I took your original reservation, you were on the all-inclusive Davenport package for life, baby. While it might always be perfectly imperfect, just like we’ve always been, it’s all part of the service,’ he winked, as his hand slipped up my skirt and his tongue sank into my mouth again, making me see stars.

  The End

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