by Lynn Jaxon
She stutters, “Wha-wha-what are you doing here? How did this happen?”
I cup her cheeks and look her in the eyes. “I’m a man who will stop at nothing to get what he wants, and I wanted to be here with you.”
“Did you plan this with my parents? I can’t believe this is really happening.”
“I've been planning this for a while. I just had to get your parents to help me pull it off.” I look over to them and mouth, “thank you.”
I wrap my arms tightly around Marley and pull her close to me when the lights dim signaling the start of Brett Young. He comes out singing “Ain’t too Proud to Beg,” which is also fitting for this moment that is about to happen.
The band is then introduced, and he welcomes everyone to the show. Here is my moment… “Change Your Name” starts to play softly with Brett singing and playing the piano with no band. This was planned so Marley could hear my proposal. I turn to Mar and drop to my knees.
“Marley, I know this seems fast, but we’ve known each other for many years. You have seen me at my very best and at my absolute lowest. I never would have made it these past six months without you.”
I remove the box from my pocket, open it to display the two-carat, heart-shaped, diamond solitaire. “Marley, my beautiful angel, I love you so much. Will you take me just as I am and make me the happiest man in the world? Please say YES!”
Marley shakes her head up and down with happy tears streaming down her face. I doubt she can even see from all the tears she is crying. I heard her mom gasp when I opened the box.
“Yes. God, yes. Ben, I'll be your wife. I love you so much, too. You have made me the happiest woman in the world.”
The entire proposal is up on the mega screen for the whole arena to witness. SHE SAID YES!!!!!
We couldn’t stop touching all night, and we both broke down in tears when he sang “I Don’t Wanna Write This Song.” It made us both think of Em. I will always love her, but she has allowed me to open my heart and love again. I’m so grateful for that gift.
After the concert, we tell her parents goodnight, and I take her to the Penthouse suite at the Four Seasons Hotel Chicago where I plan to show her all night long just how much I love her.
I sweep her up in my arms and carry her into the luxurious suite. “Ben, this is beautiful. I have never seen anything like this in my life. You didn’t need to do this, Cowboy.”
“Need, no, but want, absolutely yes!” I tip my hat at her, “So, do you like me as a cowboy, darlin’? I think it’s about time for you to come ride my stallion.”
“OMG, you did not just say that,” Marley busts out laughing. “This is what I love so much about you. You make me smile. You make me laugh, and even before you uttered those three amazing words, you made me feel loved. I love you so much, Ben.”
Suddenly, the atmosphere shifts from playful to smoldering in less than three seconds. “Make love to me, Ben. I can’t wait another second to have you completely,” she whispers in my ear.
And just like that, I’m a man on fire. The tickle of her lips on my ear, as she whispers her needs, causes sparks of electricity to shoot to my dick. “Tell me what you want me to do, babe. I need you to tell me, just like I need my next breath.”
“I want you to strip off your clothes and mine and kiss every square inch of my body, building up the anticipation to where I want you the most. Then I want your hot mouth on my pussy taking me to the edge where just one last lick of your tongue will set off an inferno. Then I want you to take what is yours. Take me hard, take me soft, take me to the point of oblivion for everything but you.”
Her words light a fire inside me. I’m overcome with so many emotions right now…lust, hunger, desire, but most of all love. “Your wish is my command.” I quickly kick off my boots and pull off my socks, throw the cowboy hat and peel my shirt off over my head, flexing my muscles as I do. I love seeing the appreciation in her eyes. Next, my Wranglers and briefs come down in one pull and off with one kick. I can see her breathing quicken in her chest, her large breasts barely contained in her scoop neck top. “Now, where was I? Come here,” I command.
Her scent is making me go crazy. I can smell citrus, sunshine and her sweet nectar as I kneel before her, running my nose from her calf to her sweet pussy. I unbutton her jeans, using my teeth to help pull down her pants. I come back for more, running my nose along the seam of her white lace thong that is damp with her desire. I lick and blow my hot breath on her barely covered pussy. The sounds of her moans are driving me nearly out of my mind. “Raise your hands above your head.” Marley does as she’s told, and I pull her shirt effortlessly over her head and toss it to the floor. She stands before me in just her white lace thong and bra. It only takes a flick of my finger to release her breasts that are begging for my attention. My mouth is watering as I take her rosy nipple in my mouth. I nip and suck causing her to squirm and moan my name.
“More, I need more,” she pants. Her eyes stare up at me filled with need and want. All for me.
“More, you want more?” I walk her backwards to the floor to ceiling windows overlooking downtown Chicago. I turn her to face the windows, raising her hands above her head, pressing her body against the window. “Get ready, babe, this is going to be one hell of a ride.” I rub my throbbing cock along the seam of her ass down to her dripping pussy. “Can I take you bare? I want to feel all of your warmth wrapped around me.” The idea of being inside of her with nothing between us is almost more than I can take.
“Y-y-yes. I’m--mmm, that feels so good--I’m on the pill. I’m clean. It’s been years since I’ve been with a man.” It’s wrong, but her words surge a fierce yearning inside of me.
Mine.
“I’m clean too. You know I have only ever been with one person.” I position my dick at her opening and slide home. I pump harder and harder until I’m about to explode. “Babe, I don’t know how much longer I can hold back. You’re so tight, squeezing my dick like a vice. I need you to come with me.” I take her hand in mine, and together we rub her clit until I can feel her legs shaking and her pussy gripping me even tighter. When I pinch her clit, she explodes.
We are both dripping with sweat and panting. I carry her to the bathroom and run us a bath. I pour the bath salts into the deep soaker, jetted tub. There is champagne chilling in a bucket with strawberries. I climb into the bath first, and then she climbs in, sliding down my chest. I pull her against me, and my dick comes back to life again. I pull her thick hair off of her neck licking, biting and kissing her from ear to ear. She turns her head back, reaching up and pulling my head down to her lips. She has taken a bite of strawberry, and I can taste it on her lips. I turn her slick body around to where she is facing me. My dick is standing at full attention again. “I want you to ride me, babe. Take all of my cock into your hot, wet, pussy.” She slides down on me, and it is so warm, so tight. It is heaven. When she seats herself entirely on my cock, I can feel her cervix. She begins to slowly move up and down in the most delicious torture. My large hands squeeze the globes of her ass and bring her down harder and faster. My teeth are nipping and pulling at her nipples causing her to buck even harder with the pain turning to exquisite pleasure. I can tell she is enjoying the slight sting of pain, so I slap her on her glorious ass, and she detonates, screaming out my name. It only takes me a few more pumps, and I explode everything I have into my future.
“That was mind-blowing,” Marley says breathlessly. “I want to do that again and again.” Marley collapses on my chest and wraps her arms around my neck, her body limp and sated against mine.
“You’re mind-blowing. I would love nothing more than to spend every minute of every day for the rest of my life doing that with you, but I’m no longer the hot young thing I used to be. You will have to give me some time to recover from those two life-altering orgasms.” I reach up on the shelf above our heads and grab the loofah, foaming bath gel, and a washrag. Adding more hot water to the tub, I place the rag under the warm water
and then bring it to her pussy and take special care to help clean every inch both inside and out. Marley takes the loofah and covers it in bath gel before washing me clean. I moan out loud when she pours some in her delicate hands and then begins to work over my dick, cleaning every inch. I don’t know how it is possible, but he starts to come back to life again. The brightest smile ever crosses her face at the realization of just what she can do to me.
Chapter Fifty-Eight
Marley
I have never been more sated in my life. Ben is the most attentive lover in the world, and I’m sore in the most delectable way. After having me in the tub, we made love slowly and passionately in the massive bed learning every inch of each other’s bodies. I found that he comes totally unglued when I run my tongue from his dick and up every deep groove in his eight pack, yes, I said eight pack, and then kiss him deeply letting him taste the unique taste of me and him on my tongue. My man is mouth-watering, and he is built better than a boy in his twenties, that is for damn sure.
I’m pulled from my pleasure filled memories of last night by the feel of Ben’s morning wood rubbing against my ass and lower back. The man is definitely a stallion. “Good morning, my soon to be wife.” He picks up my left hand and brings it to his mouth, kissing me on my ring finger. “Have I told you lately that I love you and that you’re beautiful?”
“You can never tell me enough, my soon to be husband. Should we call Mitch and Henry and tell them the news?”
“Let’s get a quick, hot shower first,” Ben seductively says the word ‘hot’ and smirks. “then we will tell the boys.”
“Sounds like a wonderful idea to me.”
There was nothing quick about our shower, but it was hotter than hell, in more ways than one. I know I’m in heaven on Earth with this man.
I could sit here for hours just watching him in nothing but a towel wrapped around his waist with all his muscles on display. He is sexy just brushing his teeth.
Ben looks up in the mirror, catching me ogling him, and smiles a toothpaste filled smile and mouths “I love you, Mar.” My heart is a puddle of goo on the floor of this Penthouse suite, that could have been the Holiday Inn for all I care. I have what is important.
“I love you too, Ben, so damn much.”
After brushing his teeth and trimming his beard down to a little more than a five o'clock shadow, he walks in dressed to impress in khaki pants and a white long sleeve polo dress shirt. “You ready to call the boys?”
“I can’t wait to call the boys and tell them you have made me the happiest man ever.”
“Let me get dressed really quick so we can Facetime them to show them the ring.” I open the closet to find a new white lace sundress hanging in there. There is a white strapless lace bra and matching panties sitting in a tissue filled box. He thought of everything, down to the dainty white sandals he bought to match the dress. I turn and look back at him with a question in my eyes.
Before I can speak, he says, “Babe, I know we just got engaged, but I also know that I don’t want to spend one minute without you on this Earth. Time is precious. You’re precious. I want us to get married today. Right here in this beautiful hotel.”
I feel tears of happiness building in my eyes, and my heart is beating fast. “Are you serious? What about the boys and my parents?”
“Well, you see, there really isn’t a need to Facetime the boys, because they are staying here at the Four Seasons, too. We took a gamble and prayed that you would say yes, first, to becoming my wife and second, to doing it now.” He smiles his playful grin that he knows I will never be able to say no to.
“Well then Mister, you need to get out of here. You can’t see me in my dress before the wedding.” I grin. “Go ahead and send my mom in. I’m sure she is chomping at the bit to get in here.”
“That she is, my dear. She has texted me five times since eight o'clock this morning. So...is that a yes to today?”
“It’s not a yes, it’s a hell yes!!! Now get out of here so we can do this.” I do a little dance and then kiss him on the cheek. I see his eyes flame and look down at my breasts that are bouncing up and down. I’m still dressed in, well, nothing.
He opens the door, turns, and says, “I love you,” then shuts the door.
“Love you, more,” I yell back at him. I can hear his chuckle as he walks away.
A few minutes later my mom comes into the room, along with Kristi. “Hi, Mom. Hi, Kristi. I’m so happy you came.” Mom has tears in her eyes. I can see the love and happiness she feels for me. I went through a dark period in my life, and I know she has a sense of relief that I will never experience that again with Ben in my life.
Mom and Kristi are like worker bees pulling open bags of makeup and hair products. In no time at all they have me looking like a princess. My white lace strapless sundress is long in the back and short, just above my knees in the front. It fits me perfectly and is something I would have picked for myself. I’m pretty sure Mom had something to do with this dress. The dainty, two-inch, white heeled sandals go perfectly. Mom is speechless when I turn to face her after I put it on.
She gasps and brings both hands to her face on her cheeks. “You’re the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen, Marley. You’re going to knock Ben on his ass.”
“You’re gorgeous,” says Kristi.
“I have some things to give you,” says Mom. “Here are the pearl earrings that I wore when I married your dad. They were his mother’s that she wore when she married his father. So, these will cover your something old and borrowed.” She then hands me a blue box that I know contains a necklace. “This is from Benson. He asked me to give it to you.”
“Oh my God, this is stunning.” It is a delicate pearl necklace with a diamond drop infinity pendant in the center. There is a note folded with it that says…...I love you to infinity and beyond. XOX, Ben.
“Don’t you dare cry,” says Mom. “We just got your makeup perfect.” She smiles and kisses my cheek.
Kristi comes over and hugs me and then gives me a beautiful pale blue handkerchief that is from her, Mitch, and Henry. It has custom stitching that says…You have always been like a second mom to us, so on this day, you will now become our mom. 6-24-19. That does it. I officially lose it, and we have to redo my makeup.
I hear a knock at the door and in walks my dad with a look of love and pride on his face. “You look stunning, sweetheart. I have been waiting to see this look of happiness on your face for what seems like forever. I couldn’t have picked a more perfect husband for you. We better get moving. He is downstairs pacing a hole in the carpet.”
Chapter Fifty-Nine
Benson
When the French doors open, Marley is beaming like the brightest star glowing in the night, causing my knees to buckle at how beautiful she is. The light pouring in behind her makes her look like an angel. She is carrying a simple bouquet of lavender roses and heather tied together with a simple white silk bow.
The song “Speechless” by Dan and Shay is playing as her father brings her down the aisle to where me and the boys are waiting with her mom, Kristi, and the minister, who just so happens to be her Uncle Jim. She looks out and sees her Aunt Betty and several other family members and family friends. I was so happy that her family and friends were able to take time out of their work day to be here for her. Alan and Barbie are here, too, and he is grinning like a fool. I’m so blessed.
I wipe a tear from her cheek and take her hands in mine. “Are you ready to do this?” I whisper.
Marley nods her head, “More than ever.”
I don’t really even hear what her uncle is saying to us until he says, “Ben has requested that you say your vows in unison. Marley, Ben face each other and repeat after me, “In the name of God, I take you to be my spouse, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, until we are parted by death. This is my solemn vow."
Mitch and Hen
ry each pull out a ring. I bought us matching 18k gold bands. We each slide the ring on the other’s finger saying, “With this ring, I thee wed.”
Uncle Jim then says, “Marley and Ben, in so much as the two of you have agreed to live together in Matrimony, have promised your love for each other by these vows, I now declare you to be Husband and Wife. Congratulations, you may kiss your bride.
And kiss her I do. I don’t care who sees me kiss the woman who has brought me back to life and shown me how to love again.
Cheers erupt from everyone in the room. We spend the next couple of hours taking pictures, dancing, eating, and basking in the love of each other and our family and friends.
Epilogue
One Year Later
“Ben, come here please, I can’t get Emily to stop crying. I don’t think I can leave her with Henry and Kristi, even for the night.”
“What do you mean, you can’t leave her? We just got the all clear, and I’m ready to have some one on one time with my wife. She will be fine. She can tell that you’re anxious and is feeding off that. I promise we will go and pick her up if she doesn’t calm down. I bet she will fall asleep on the ride over there and sleep until it is time for a bottle. You pumped her several bottles so she will be good until morning. I promise I will go and get her at the crack of dawn.”
“I know, Honey, but it is just so hard to leave her. She will be okay, I know that rationally, but it’s still so hard for me.”
I give her my signature grin and say, “Babe, I promise to make you forget all about it for just a few hours.”
“You know I need and want that more than anything. I know I’m being ridiculous. Let me nurse her and then get her ready.”