Hi… Are you still in town? I read the message and my heart makes a little jump. Yes… Just walking round taking in the old and new scenes… And you; brunch finish with your mom? I type back and wait. I was sitting at a café finally having the coffee I had been craving since this morning. Yes… I had to cut it short she was driving me crazy. I read and laugh. I’m heading out to a meeting till five and then I’m free after… Would you like to have dinner? I read her words and try not to reply to eagerly. Of course I would love that. Can I pick you up or would you like to meet somewhere? I realized I don’t know where she lived so I waited. I can meet you… I staying in Cape Town at the moment but I will come out here… I love it here. She says and I feel relieved. Okay… but if you have to come from Cape Town you will be rushing and I don’t want you to rush… So what if I come to that side of town? I reply and wait for her. My meeting is in Paarl so I will be around the corner… You don’t mind me not dressing up? She replies and I smile. I love you just the way you are babe… I don’t know if I should send the message. I sit looking at the text and feel the doubt creeping in again. I delete it and sigh. No… whatever makes you feel comfortable. I reply and then wait. Okay… So I will see you later then. I read and reply yes. I look up and wonder what all this meant but I try not to let my thoughts run away with me again. I take the small box out of pocket and open it up. Was I rushing? I mean she had just broken up with her boyfriend the one she believed was the one and now she said yes to my wedding proposal well she could just as well say the same about me. Carryn and I were not even broken up a month even. Then my phone goes off again. I love you. I read the words and look at it long and hard and shake my head. I love you. I type back and sigh with the most stupid looking grin on my face, but I didn’t care.
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“I love your place… Very practical” She says as she walks through the lounge area and I follow closely by.
“I didn’t know you were into art” She says as she stops at some of my pieces. She reads the names but nothing sounds familiar to her. “I’m not… These are some of an old friends work from high school… He decided to go a different route with his life and I managed to score some great pieces for free. I had it framed and kept it in storage until I finally settled down” I say and she looked at me and smiled. “So this is it then… You are settling down?” She asks and I think about it for second. “Yeah… I guess this is it” I say and we continue walking to the back of the apartment. “So you want to live in this apartment for the rest of your life?” She asks and I look at her questioning. “You don’t want to buy a house?’ She asks and I walk closer to her and stop as our eyes stays locked in on each other. “I didn’t think about a house really… But I guess I would want a house…a home for my family” I say and she smiles. “Why don’t you show me your bedroom…” she says and I feel like laughing out loud at her forwardness but I smile shaking my head. “Sure… Right this way…” I say and she puts her bag and stuff down and we start walking down the hall to my bedroom. I feel hot and lusty as I walk in front of her and feel her eyes burning into my back. “This is it…” I say and she comes walking pass me and stand looking around the room and then she sees the balcony and walks outside. I see her smiling. “This view is amazing” I hear her say as I walk out to meet her. “It is… That is why I chose the place… I loved it” I say and then she turns to me and looks up into my eyes. “Annabelle…” I say and she puts her fingers to my lips to still my words before I say something stupid which I knew I most likely would. “I love you James… I love you” She says and I bend down as she pulls me closer to her and our lips meet softly at first tasting each other. Taking in the familiar of many years ago and then more urgently. Lift her up into my arms and start carrying her back into the bedroom. I put her down on the bed and she sits on her knees and I look down on her flustered face. “Annabelle…” I say and stroke her cheek and she closes her eyes under my touch. I bend down and kiss her again and her hands slide over my chest and around my neck and her fingers dig into my hair. Our kisses become more urgent more hungry and I feel myself becoming erect and hard. She lifts my shirt out of pants and puts her hands on my bare stomach and feels my lust flutter at her touch. I lift her to stand on the bed and put my head against her stomach and she puts her hands on my head and holds me in place. I put my hands up her skirt and feel her warm thighs and smell the scent of her perfume on her clothes. This was only going to be like a dream come true. I pull her panties down and my finger grazes her swollen lips and I hear her moan softly. She grabs my hair and pulls on it gently. I run my fingers through her wetness and I know there wasn’t going to be a lot of room for foreplay… I pull her down her knees again and we start kissing again. She looks intoxicated and so fucking hot I feel myself throbbing hard against my pants. Her hands move to my pants starts undoing my belt and button. She pulls them off without taking her lips off mine. I lift her top over her head and her hair comes loose that she had tied into a bun. She looks hot and the sex was oozing out of her pores and I couldn’t get enough of just looking at her. I kiss her neck and moves down to her chest and she starts unbuttoning my shirt and pulls it off. I push her back onto the bed and climb on top of her. She moves as I move and I feel her sex hot and ready under my touch again. I pull her skirt off and she lies in front of me naked and exposed. Beautiful. I turn her onto her stomach and take of her bra before I start kissing her back and then her buttocks. Oh she was something else; something that should be illegal or sacred. I take of my underpants and my need rips free. I turn her around and I’m blown away by her just as I was that morning all those years ago… “You are truly beautiful Annabelle…” I say and climb back onto the bed and lie down next to her and she looks into my eyes and then she smiles. I smile back at her and then we start kissing again. I feel her touching my face and I put my hand on her hand and put my other hand on her stomach. I push her leg open with my leg and then I climb on top of her. “Not to hard…” She says and it was like she read my mind. I wanted to savour her and to enjoy her. I feel her wetness against my head as I enter her slowly. She was so tight it was a little painful. I see her taking a deep breath and then I feel her nails digging into my arms… Oh God! No! This can’t be… I feel myself enter and the wetness enfolds me and then she gasps as I pull out… I look down at her and she looks at me questioning. “You can’t stop now…” She says and I know that it was true. I look at her and my heart swells. I knew that there was no way I was ever going to be able to live without her another second. “You know the deal Annabelle” I say and she looks at me hard. “I know James…” She says and looks at me a little annoyed. I bend down and kiss her hard and demanding and she returns my kisses. I enter her again and it’s tight and painful… Then she starts moving with me in and out… Soft and deep and sensual. Our bodies were one and our hands were one. Our hearts were one. We were one. I hear her panting as we move harder and harder and more urgent. She arches her body to me as she climaxed hard against me and I know it wouldn’t be long until…
I hold her close and with a few quick and hard jolts I come. We both lie panting with my head on her chest. I pull her with me as I roll on my back and she is lying flat on my chest. We lay taking in the life floating around in the air. “So that’s what sex feels like” She says against my chest and kisses me softly. I can’t remember the last time I had felt anything like that. “No babe… That is what making love feels like” I say and pull her up so that our faces meet. Her hair falls in my face and she wipes it away. “Forever babes…” I say and she smiles at me brightly. “Forever my King” She says and bends down and kisses me softly and then gives me taste of her tongue.
I watch her sleep and see the pink stain on the bedding. I could not believe that she had saved herself all these years. When I saw her earlier today she looked like someone who saw her saviour in me and I felt like the heavens had answered my prayers. I get up out of bed and leave her sleeping and head to the lounge to retrieve our seal of our lov
e and promise still in my jacket pocket. I wanted to ask her at diner but it just didn’t seem right and she didn’t stop talking for a second giving me time to ask again. I run back to the room and see that she is not in bed anymore. I feel slightly panicked until I hear the toilet flush. She comes walking out wearing my shirt and I see it curving sexy around her thighs. I loved that she wasn’t skinny or too thin…She and a beautiful hour glass body and gorgeous hair. “The bed is stained” I hear her say and she looks at me shy. “Don’t worry about the bed… Come here… You should be in bed” I say and pull her to me. She makes an aching sound and look where I might have hurt her. “I’m still a bit sore…” She says and I feel guilty for hurting her. “I’m sorry… I will be gentler next time…” I say and smile at her as sympathetically as I can. “It’s not your fault I’m a virgin… or rather was a virgin… But on the other hand technically it is… You made it hard for me to want another man… I just couldn’t bring myself to that place you got me… And believe it wasn’t because I wasn’t horny I just… I don’t know I just wanted you.” She says and I take her lips with mine and we kiss again. I feel my need growing again and stop. “Before we do this again… I just want to ask you something…” I say and she looks at me frowning. “What is it” She asks and I get off the bed and pull her with me. She stands before me and I can’t hold my emotions anymore. “I prayed for five years for our paths to cross again… And when I saw you yesterday I just knew that there was no way I was letting you go again. I love Annabelle and I never stopped loving you; there could never be anyone but you… I tried but… And yesterday when I asked you to marry me I was never more serious…” She looks at me with tears glistening in her eyes as I go down on one knee. She puts her hand to her mouth and I reach for the small box from under the pillow.
“Annabelle Spencer… Will you do me the honour of becoming my wife and life partner?” I ask and she looks at me smiling brightly as the tears roll down her face. “Like I told you yesterday silly… Yes! Yes… I will be your wife and your life partner forever” She says and I slide the small one piece diamond ring on her finger. She loves a solitaire. She liked the simplistic beauty of it. “James… I love you” She says and bends down in front of me and we start kissing again. We fall back on the ground laughing.
“My Ice Queen” I say and she smiles at me.
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