Undeniable: Always 3
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“Chase Sinclair,” he said, opening the sock puppet’s “mouth” to reveal a very simple, very exquisite, very sparkly diamond ring. “Will you marry us? Me and Fluffy?”
Even to my ears, the world grew quiet. Paused, hovering on the brink of monumental change …
Heart thumping in my ears, deafening me (ha ha, get it?) I raised my eyes to his and signed, Hell yeah.
His ecstatic whoop of delight told those around us what I’d said. That, and the fact he leaped to his feet and swooped me up in a hug, Fluffy barking around our legs.
When he finally put me down, he grinned at me.
I grinned back and held out my hand.
Have you ever had an engagement ring slid onto your finger by the cotton lips of a sock puppet? No? Trust me, it is the best thing ever.
“Now,” he said, when our eyes connected again, “get your arse outta here. You’ll miss your flight.”
I grabbed him, hugged him, kissed him, and then did the same to Fluffy.
Around us, people applauded and smiled at us. Two young people in love. How could they not?
“Go,” he laughed, even as he drew me back to his body. “You’re stressing out our mutt.”
I chuckled, and snagged a gentle grip of his beard, pulling his face down to mine for a quick, naughty kiss. “Bite me, Caden O’Dae.”
“When you get back,” he answered, squeezing my butt. “When you get back.”
Suffice to say, I spent most of the flight admiring my new bling. Every time I looked at my hand, at the engagement ring on my finger, an excited, warm, blissfully happy thrill swept through me.
I could quite cheerfully experience that buzz for many, many months.
And one day in the near future, after my student visa was finished, and the Australian government believed we really were legitimately, madly in love, we’d be ready for my next visa: the Oh-my-God-I’ve-married-an-Aussie visa.
That one … yeah, that one was damn exciting.
Not too bad for a defective American, right?
Go me.
Acknowledgments
I'd like to acknowledge the amazing work done by The Royal Institute for Death and Blind Children in Australia. For more information visit: www.ridbc.org.au.
About Cherie M Hudson
Cherie M Hudson is happily married to the man of her dreams, a busy mum of two little girls (one nine going on sixteen, the other five going on twenty), a proud cat owner (although she suspects the cat thinks she owns her) and an insanely manic writer. She has written over forty erotic romances under the pen name Lexxie Couper. A long time ago she gave up trying to suppress the stories in her head constantly trying to escape and has been blissfully happy since.
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First published by Momentum in 2016
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