With all of the obstacles they had faced along the way, Charlie came to terms with the fact that she had known for a long time that their future would be twisted. Although she didn’t appreciate how deep and misconstrued the lies Callum told were, coming in from a different angle, Charlie could clearly see that with the past behind them, they would finally have a proper shot at this relationship. It all hinged on the next answer she gave and whether she would agree to give Callum another chance.
“Charlie?” Callum’s voice sounded hoarse as he waited for her to give him an answer.
Keeping her gaze fixed on his face, Charlie tried to imagine a life without Callum. It was hard because she didn’t want to visualise a world without his heart melting smile or his smooth and sensual voice that turned her body on within seconds. She knew that the past six or seven weeks without him had almost killed her. It was this thought that continued to play on her mind as she wasn’t sure if she would be able to go through with the same torture again if they did decide to part ways.
“Please... Please don’t do this,” Callum begged, his eyes starting to glisten with tears. “I can’t and won’t do this again, Charlie. We love each other. Why put ourselves through all of this heartache and pain for no reason? Just please give us another chanc-”
“Enough Callum,” Charlie choked as she struggled to keep herself together. She had finally come to her decision which she hoped was the right one.
“What do you choose?”
Charlie swallowed a dry lump that had formed in the back of her throat before answering.
“Us,” she finally whispered. “I choose us, Callum.”
“I knew you would,” he said as he nodded down at his hand covering hers. Slowly he loosened his grasp and pulled back to reveal Charlie’s ring finger.
She whimpered softly in happiness at the sight of the large diamond solitaire that was now sat on her finger. “How did you do that?”
Callum grinned and covered his hand over hers again. Ever so gently he began to caress her skin with his thumb as he had before. “You were too busy feeling my thumb that you didn’t realise I had put the ring on your finger,” he smiled. “It has been on throughout the entire conversation because I knew you would make the right choice, Charlie. I never doubted for one minute that you wouldn’t pick us. I’m ready to spend the rest of my life with you, Baby.”
“I love you,” she sobbed.
“I love you too,” he replied. “Now come here so I can kiss you...”
Thirty Four
Holding her engagement ring up to the light, Charlie admired the way the large diamond sparkled prettily. She couldn’t believe that she was now engaged to the love of her life, especially after everything that had happened between them. She knew that she was making the right choice.
She chose him.
She chose them.
She chose their future.
“Baby...” She turned to look at her handsome fiancée who was sleepily watching her with amusement. “I take it you like your ring?” he asked with a small yawn.
“I love it,” she smiled, wiggling her fingers excitedly in front of him.
Callum stretched his arms above his head and tensed the muscles of his abdomen, knowing how much Charlie loved to ogle him. It was one of the many ways he loved to tease her, particularly first thing in the morning when he was as hard as a rock and needed to feel the warmth of her body.
“Are you trying to tease me again you bastard?” Charlie laughed as she shimmied back under the covers.
Snaking her hand across to Callum’s stomach, she dipped her fingers into each well defined groove, enjoying the way his muscles contracted from her touch and the way his breath hissed through his clenched teeth. She didn’t need to stroke any further down to know that he was already aroused. She knew Callum well enough to know that he was always firm and waiting for her.
“Why are you so damn sexy?” Charlie asked huskily as she lowered her mouth to kiss and caress his abdomen. She hoped that Callum could see where her intentions were going with this because she was feeling extremely horny.
Thinking back over the past twenty four hours, Charlie couldn’t actually recall how many times they had made love since breakfast. She was confident however, that they had definitely set a new personal best for the longest marathon of sex they had ever had.
After Callum had magically revealed the engagement ring on Charlie’s finger, he motioned her over to his side of the table so that he could kiss her properly and really seal their future. It was a kiss that had started off tenderly, however before long the pair had soon found themselves racing upstairs to Callum’s hotel suite where he took his time in worshipping her body properly from head to toe.
“Baby,” Callum groaned as Charlie nipped and sucked a path down towards his cock. “Fuck,” he gasped as Charlie’s tongue gently trailed up the side of his pulsating shaft.
Pushing the covers off of his body, Charlie gripped her hand around the base of him and slowly lowered her mouth to take in his full length. A groan rumbled from deep within Callum’s throat as she started to gradually work him in her mouth.
Callum swiped the hair off of Charlie’s neck and held it on the top of her head. She could feel the pressure from his hand as he forced her head down to take him whole once again. Flicking her eyes sideways, she glanced up to find Callum’s heavily lustful eyes penetrating right into her.
“Jesus, Baby,” he growled as she slid her tongue gently around the tip.
She loved the feel of his shaft as it rippled and pulsed gently in her mouth. She could never get enough of the way he tasted.
“That’s enough now,” Callum commanded as the pressure of his orgasm was almost at its crest.
Charlie lifted her head obediently and smirked at the sight of his flushed and aroused face. “Did you like that?” she murmured.
Callum wrapped an arm around her naked body and pulled her astride him. “I fucking loved it,” he groaned as his hands reached up to cup her breasts. He rolled and pinched her nipples tightly before he dropped both hands to her hips to shift her body upwards. “Now let me return the favour,” he chuckled as his tongue lightly feathered kisses over her clit.
Charlie whimpered softly under the onslaught of Callum’s skilled tongue. She gripped the headboard of the hotel bed for support and unashamedly rode herself back and forth while enjoying the spiralling ecstasy he gave her.
“I could fucking eat this forever,” Callum panted breathlessly between licks as he pressed two fingers sharply into the wet warmth of her body. Her inner walls contracted harshly as he continued to devour her hungrily. “I can feel you’re almost there,” he said, pumping his fingers harder and faster into her throbbing pussy.
Charlie tightened her grip on the headboard and threw her head back in a state of complete elation as her orgasm powerfully shattered and shutdown her body temporarily. After the moment passed, she continued to writhe and squirm against Callum’s tongue as he allowed her to ride out the aftershocks in uninterrupted bliss.
Withdrawing his fingers from her body, Callum placed his hands on Charlie’s waist and rolled her effortlessly underneath him. Pinning her body to the bed with the weight of his upper thighs, he licked his lips devilishly to savour her taste before lowering his head to capture her lips in a ferocious and brutal kiss. As his tongue invaded her mouth, Charlie greedily kissed him back with as much passion as she could gather.
She felt his hand trace between the valley of her breasts and the flat plain of her stomach. He pressed his fingertips against her swollen clit and massaged her until she was on the brink of another orgasm and crying out with need.
Gripping his cock, Charlie positioned him at her entrance. “Make love to me,” she whispered, her eyes glowing with love and adoration for the man hovering above her.
“I love you so fucking much,” Callum murmured as he placed his forehead against hers and pushed himself inside of her.
A small moan escaped Ch
arlie’s lips as she felt the length of him stretching and filling her to capacity. It was a welcome feeling that she knew she would never tire of. The connection shared between them was too great and sacred during this special time.
Callum shifted his weight as he started to thrust into the tight warmth of her body. Needing to hold onto something, Charlie reached up and tangled her fingers in the unruly black and silver tinted hair on his head. She pulled softly, earning a deep groan from Callum and a forceful thrust as her reward.
“You like that?” Callum bent his head and took a protruding nipple into his mouth. Biting down, he felt the inside of Charlie’s body quivering around his cock. Increasing the pressure and speed of his thrusts, Callum placed his hands on the pillow on either side of Charlie’s head to steady himself. He could feel how in tune her body was as she reacted perfectly to each and everything he did to stimulate and push her body towards release.
As Callum continued to pound into her, Charlie moved her hands to stroke the skin on his back. Lightly scraping him with her finger nails, she felt her body suddenly pulse as the home stretch came into sight.
“I’m ready,” she whimpered, sucking her bottom lip into her mouth.
Charlie let out an ear splitting scream as the intensity of her orgasm shook her body from head to toe. The muscles in her legs twisted and tightened sending shocks of adrenaline and pleasure to the farthest point in her toes.
“Shit,” Callum grunted as his cock exploded forcefully into the top of Charlie’s cervix. He continued to drive into her as he emptied himself with the assistance of her contracting vaginal walls. “Wow,” he said breathlessly.
Charlie lifted her gaze to look into Callum’s eyes and gasped. Tears started to prick at the corners of her eyes as she took in the magnificent glacier blue colour that reflected back at her.
Alarmed, Callum placed a hand on her cheek. “Baby, what’s wrong?”
Feeling the tears of happiness steadily slip down her cheeks, Charlie smiled. “We did it,” she cried. “We chased it away.”
“Chased what away, Baby?”
“Our future was on course for a path of twisted destruction, Callum. But we changed it. We chased the darkness away and we won,” she said, placing a soft kiss against his lips.
Epilogue
Two and a half years later
“Hey, where am I putting the new stock?” Xavier called from behind the two boxes he was carrying through the door.
“How about you put them in the stockroom like normal?” Charlie laughed as he struggled past her into the backroom.
“I would, but your God damn husband has taken it over as a mobile command centre,” Xavier bitched. “I’m just going to put this shit in your office. There isn’t anywhere else for it to go!”
She rolled her eyes as Xavier emerged a few minutes later with a slightly sweaty face. “Sweat alert,” she warned, throwing a roll of paper towels at him. “We open in half an hour and you don’t want to scare the customers away do you?”
Xavier glared at her as he ripped a couple of the paper towels from the roll and tossed it back. “And you don’t think that you being a giant preg-o-saurus is going to scare people away?” he argued, gesturing towards her giant swollen belly.
Charlie rubbed a hand protectively over her growing bump and smiled. “Everyone loves a pregnant woman,” she grinned.
Xavier scoffed. “Fuck that... I’m glad I missed it the first time round. I’d of kicked off if this was the second time having to put up with your moaning, fat arse. Pregnancy is definitely not for me.”
“Once you’ve had one, Avi, you will want more and more.”
“Not happening...”
“What’s not happening?” Callum asked as he came through the doorway juggling his laptop carry case, a baby bag and a crying child in a car seat. “Mummy, I need your assistance. Someone woke up earlier than expected in the car and Daddy stupidly forgot to bring his morning formula bottle.”
He placed the car seat on the checkout counter in front of Charlie, so that she could loosen the straps and lift Cameron out. “Hey my beautiful baby boy,” she cooed as she cuddled him closely to her chest. At almost a year old, Charlie was amazed by how much her little boy was growing before her eyes.
Sitting on the stool behind the counter, Charlie gently eased her arm out of her top, so that she could attach Cameron to her nipple. Once she had settled him comfortably, she looked down at him warmly while he satisfied his hunger.
“Here you go, Baby,” Callum said as he placed her nursing blanket gently over Cameron and her exposed breast. “He’s a little bugger,” he chuckled, placing a kiss tenderly on Charlie’s lips. “Although, I do think we need to start weaning him off the breast milk altogether now. I know he only uses it mainly as a comforter at night, but you are going to be shattered if you are feeding both of them,” Callum said as he gently caressed her back. “I think he will be alright with a bottle of formula before bed instead.”
She smiled at Callum while he was in Daddy mode. She loved to see this side of him as it just increased her love for him more and more. “I don’t know what we’ll do when the other one comes along,” Charlie smiled. “I’ll have to try and juggle three of you fighting over me.”
“I didn’t even think it was possible for you to get pregnant while breastfeeding,” Callum said as he placed a hand gently on her tummy.
“Well I wasn’t breastfeeding exclusively because we mixed it up with breast milk and formula. It is easier to get pregnant that way,” she advised, keeping a watchful eye on the squirming child under the blanket.
“I know we didn’t want to know the sex, but I hope to God we get another a girl this time. I am praying she won’t be as demanding as this little guy,” he laughed, hearing Cameron’s satisfied gurgles under the blanket. “I need my wife back to myself,” he pouted, sticking out his bottom lip.
“Don’t be jealous of the baby,” Charlie giggled as she patted the squishy material of Cameron’s nappy.
She felt him detach from her body and release a fulfilled sigh. “I think he’s finished now,” she said, carefully lifting him from under the blanket so that she could place him into Callum’s arms. “We have to open up soon, so would you mind putting him down? The travel cot is set up in the office, so hopefully he will just fall back to sleep.” She pushed her arm back through the sleeve of her top and put the nursing blanket back in the bag.
“No problem, Baby. I’ll put him down and then I’ll go setup my mobile office. I need to check in with Marco today to see how the sales figures are doing for the Milan boutique. He is in hot competition with Sophia at the moment. That girl is pushing sales like there is no tomorrow,” Callum nodded as he walked away with Cameron over his shoulder.
“I still can’t look at you and think that he is your husband and that you have a baby,” Xavier shook his head in disbelief.
Sometimes Charlie couldn’t believe it herself. She looked down at her ring finger and the platinum diamond band that now sat below the large diamond solitaire engagement ring. She remembered how nervous she was when Callum decided to set the date six months after that unforgettable morning when he slipped the ring on her finger.
Although the date had been quite sooner than she was expecting, the wedding had turned out perfect. After many arguments between her mother and sister, Charlie and Callum decided to elope with their closest friends.
In the end, Charlie walked barefooted down the aisle on a private beach in Jamaica with a stunning ivory coloured lace dress. Of course they flew out the usual tribe of guests who included: Amelia, Lucy, Jack, Ollie and Xavier. But in addition to their friends, the couple were grateful that they were able to bring their daughter, Paige, who flew with them to attend the special day as the couple’s flower girl.
A short while after the day that officially joined them as man and wife, Charlie and Callum were given another blessing that they were eternally grateful for.
Cameron.
; The little boy came into their lives following a long and stressful pregnancy for Charlie. During this time, it was decided that she would leave her position in Milan and the couple would return back to the UK so that they could be around people that could help while Callum was at work. Thankfully, moving back home also enabled the couple to have Paige on a more regular basis rather than the flights backwards and forwards from the UK to Italy.
Although Callum maintained his position as director of International Operations, he chose to work from home as much as possible so that he could be near his pregnant wife. Luckily, the company thought it was a great idea and fully supported his decision to put his family first.
Shortly after the birth of their child, Charlie was eager to be back in the working field instead of staying at home staring at the same panoramic views of Manchester out of the windows in their penthouse.
Coincidently, it just happened that Imogen was resigning from her position at I&L to move on to bigger and better things. The company decided it beneficial for Charlie to take position as managing owner of the Manchester boutique knowing who her husband was.
Since then, the turnover of the Manchester boutique has increased drastically, requiring Charlie to expand her staff levels.
“Sorry we are late, but the queue was crazy!”
Charlie looked up to see Amelia and Lucy rushing through the door with cups of tea and doughnuts. She chuckled to herself knowing that her friends were the worst for time keeping, even for their jobs. Thankfully their impeccable taste in fashion was more than enough to keep them coasting along.
“Where’s my Godson?” Lucy asked, peeking into the empty car seat.
“He is out the back with Callum,” Charlie replied, helping herself to a doughnut.
“You are so lucky you’re pregnant,” Amelia sighed, smoothing her hands over her flat tummy as she eyed the calorie laden piece of evil.
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