by Kelly Myers
The sailboat bobbed in the water, and after we finished the meal and cleaned up, Luke coughed. He had a weird look on his face, but he wasn’t fidgeting now. He was his normal, confident self.
He pushed a button, and soft music started to play. “Dance with me?”
I let him take my hands and pull me up. I glanced down at the rocking hull of the boat. “I’m not sure how much dancing I can do in the waves, but I’ll give it a shot.”
“We’ll sway,” he said. He wrapped his strong arms around me, and I laid my head on his shoulder, and we swayed back and forth to the music.
I glanced around and smiled. It was probably the most romantic thing I’d ever seen. It looked like something that would happen in a romance movie, or in a novel.
I sighed with contentment.
Luke took a step back, still holding onto my hands. His eyes were warm as he studied my face. “Eden Marie Ainsley, I’ve been happy every day since I met you.”
Then he went down on one knee, which was impressive in the boat, but then I realized what he was doing. Even though every sign pointed to what he was about to do, I somehow didn’t see it coming.
I was totally shocked.
He was proposing!
Oh my God!
Luke was proposing to me.
“Eden, will you marry me?” he asked.
He reached into his shorts pocket, and pulled out a blue box. It was robin’s egg blue, which even I knew meant it was from Tiffany’s.
He popped the lid on the box and showed it to me.
My hands flew to cover my mouth, and I stepped sideways. unsteady on my feet. I stopped to my knees to keep from falling overboard headfirst into the water.
I sat down on the boat. I reached out and Luke handed me the box. I stared in awe at the gorgeous diamond ring inside.
“Does that mean the answer is yes?” he asked.
“Oh God, I’m sorry. Yes! the answer is yes, a thousand times over!”
He moved to a sitting position too, and tugged me closer. Let me put it on you.”
I held out my left hand and Luke slid the ring onto my ring finger. It fit perfectly. “How in the world did you get the right size?” My hands were not as tiny as some women's might be.
“I slipped a string around your finger when you were asleep in New York.”
“Oh my God, is that when you got this? You went to Tiffany's when we went to New York? Was that whole trip just to buy the ring?”
“Yep, it was. I wanted to get the ring at the source. I know it's probably silly but I wanted it to come from the best place possible, and I wanted to have a good story to go along with it, so that's why I suggested the trip to New York City.”
I threw my arms around him again. That is the perfect story; it's so romantic.”
That's exactly what I hoped you'd say. I wanted to make a real effort to show you that this engagement means everything to me.”
“We don't have any family heirloom rings that are available, or I'd have given you one of those. My grandmother, my mother and my aunt all say they're taking their rings with them when they go.”
I laughed. “I can't wait to meet your family.”
“And I can't wait to introduce you. They're all living in Santorini right now. It's another place that I can't wait to show you.”
“Would you want to have the wedding in Santorini?”
“I would love that, but what about you? What about your dream wedding?”
“Georgia has nothing for me but bad memories. Which is sad, because it's a great state with a lot of great people, but I don't feel a need to ever go there again. I'd like for my friend from Savannah to attend our wedding, but we can pay for her way, and of course the twins will be coming. And I've really gotten to know Daniela well, but we can easily offer her a trip to Santorini too. So for me that's everybody that's for people.”
“I'm guessing you have a whole lot more people that you'd want to invite.”
He gave a full body laugh that time. “Oh yes, in some ways we are a typical Greek family. “Without doing an official headcount, I'd say I have at least thirty-five people that have to be included or they’ll lose their mind.” He cupped my jaw before kissing me once more. “Are you sure you want to do that though?”
“A wedding on the Greek Coast? I think that sounds amazing.”
“We can start planning any day now. When would you like to get married?”
“How about now?” I laughed again. I felt absolutely giddy. “I know I don't have time before the fall semester starts. When is the weather nice in Greece?”
“If you want to do a December wedding, it gets close to sixty degreed Farentheit during the day on the coast. So, an outdoor wedding is manageable, but we can plan for outdoor and have a back-up plan with indoor. It's really up to you; I have no preferences. I just want you to be happy.”
“I guess I need to get busy planning then.”
“I'm going to put your name on one of my accounts tomorrow. That way you can hire a wedding planner or an events coordinator whenever you’re ready.”
“Luke, that sounds extravagant.”
“Eden, we are going to be married. You're going to have access to all of my money. As soon as we tie the knot, you're going to be a billionaire.”
It seemed to take a minute for that to sink in. She’d have to process that one late, when she was at home alone.
“Don't you want a prenup?”
“No, I don't.”
“What if I try to divorce you to get all your money?” I asked. I wasn’t even comfortable joking about that, or even saying it as a hypothetical.
“Even if you did that, which I know you wouldn't, I'd still be a millionaire many times over. And if my family, or someone from the company argues with me, then that's going to be their problem not mine. I'll divest the company if I have to. That's how important this is to me.”
“Okay, in that case I suppose I'll start looking for wedding planners.” I wouldn't even know where to start. Most of the people who I've seen get married got married at the courthouse or the city park or their backyard. No one I knew had enough money to throw a really extravagant wedding.
Luke picked my hand back up to stare at my ring. I still loved that he’d chosen a ring with such a special meaning. “And if you don't want an extravagant wedding, we don't have to have one. If you want to elope, we can get married alone on the beach with just the officiant. If you want to hike Mount Everest and get married at the top, then we can do that too.”
“Let's not get ahead of ourselves. I've got a little bit of an adventurous spirit, but not that much.”
I leaned forward and pressed my lips against his. “You're my fiance now. You're going to be my husband.
Luke leaned back and pulled me on top of him. “You are absolutely right, I am your fiance. We joined the mile high club on the jet. Is there a name for doing the same thing on the open Water?”
“That's something I'd have to look up,” I said. “But, I'm not opposed.”
There was no time that Luke didn't turn me on, and I was fairly certain that as soon as we got back to shore he would turn me over his knee just to celebrate our engagement. Or, he might tie me up and blind fold me. Orr he might restrain my wrist and have me suck his cock.
All of those things or a feeling to me. I rubbed my thighs together. He always seemed to get the most pleasure when I initiated our dynamic. So, I scooted into his lap and tipped my head back.
“We're engaged now, Daddy,” I said.
Luke's green eyes heated up. “Yes, we are, baby girl.” He took my ring finger into his hand, and put his forefinger and thumb on my engagement ring. “I still need to tell you the significance of this ring.”
“What is it, Daddy? I would love to know.”
“Well I know we've discussed a collar, and I'd still like to do that with you. But, with you being a pre-med student, and later on a resident, and then a doctor, you won't be able to wear a collar very often. Only
at a club, and maybe not even then, depending on the community we live in. But, this ring looks like a collar, and it can signify a collar to us. Because both of us know what it means.”
“Oh Luke! that's perfect.” I turned until I could straddle him. I pressed my mouth against his ear. “I love it, daddy, it turns me on. I really want to suck your cock right now.”
Luke's eyes closed in bliss. He pressed the front of his hand against his raging erection. “You have no idea how hot you are. Daddy wants to give you all those things. I think I'm going to take you up on that offer right now.” Luke sat up straight and looked around the ocean. “There aren't any other watercraft close by. Daddy wants his fiance to suck his cock.”
Luke pulled his big cock out of his shorts. My mouth watered at the sight of it, and I got on my knees. I was hardly an expert at this now, but I was much better than I had been when we started. My technique had improved quite a bit.
I licked my lips and mouthed the head of his erection. After licking a stripe down his cock, I swallowed him down as far as I could go.
While I bobbed my head up and down, savoring his groans of pleasure, I couldn't help but touch my ring with my thumb and think about what it signified.
“All right baby girl, I want to see your hand in those lacy panties.” I did as he asked and waited on further instruction while I continued to move my mouth up and down on his rigid cock.
“Good. good job. Now push one finger into your dripping pussy. I know it's dripping, because it always is when you have your hot mouth on my cock.”
He was right about that. My panties were soaked anytime he was nearby. I was hot for my Daddy, and he knew it. I hummed with pleasure, which sent vibrations all over his cock. His thighs tensed. He must be close.
I moaned as I sucked, and he began to hitch his hips up, thrusting shallowing into my mouth. The boat bobbed over the calm waves, seemingly in rhythm with our lovemaking.
“I'm going to come,” he cried out.
I braced myself as his thick member erupted into my waiting mouth. His hot come spurted, and I swallowed greedily. He was panting harshly, and I was working my finger in and out of my pussy.
As soon as he’d gained control of himself, he buttoned his shorts up. He got on his knees and carefully lowered me to the floor of the boat. He pressed his mouth against mine and kissed me. His tongue pushed into my mouth, and I opened eagerly for him.
He shoved his hands down into my panties and found my clit. He rubbed over it in circles and it didn't take long before I was coming too. I pulled him closer to me and he lay on top of me still kissing me.
“I love you,'' he said.
“I love you too.” I beamed up at him. Luke was now my fiance.
Epilogue
Eden
I stuffed my laptop into my backpack and zipped it up. I hefted all of my books into my arms and waved goodbye to my professor. I had just finished my intro to chemistry final. It was my last test of the semester.
I had just completed my first semester of college at the University Denver as a biology major. When I started taking the semester tests, I had A’s in every class. I had busted my ass studying before the tests, so I was certain I would maintain my straight A grade average.
When I stepped out of the building I was greeted with a cold blustery wind. Once again I had forgotten my coat, scarf and gloves. An entire life lived in southern Georgia had conditioned me to never need a coat.
But the weather was very different here. Fat snowflakes floated down, melting on my skin. A bitter wind whipped against my face. But nothing could dampen my mood.
In five days, I was leaving Denver with Luke and the twins and we were flying to Santorini, Greece for my wedding.
After the wedding, we would fly the twins back to Denver where they would stay with Luke's mother. She'd been to visit us twice already in just five months, and she adored the twins. Because she only had boys, she was very excited about gaining a daughter-in-law as well.
Once they were settled in, Luke and I were going to Honeymoon in Aruba. I had gone from never flying before to jet-setting across the world. I had already flown to Greece to meet Luke's family before the wedding and scope out possible wedding locations.
I'd also gotten to visit Luke's house on the Greek Coast. There weren't words adequate to describe how beautiful that was.
After trekking across campus, I finally made it to my car. Luke had bought me an Infiniti SUV. I'd argue that it was too extravagant but he argued back that he wanted me and the girls to be safe. They were working on getting their driver's license but they weren't quite ready to be Independent Drivers yet, so I was still there chauffeur.
Even with the chilly weather, I had grown to love Colorado. The sky was blue most of the time, and the mountains always made a pleasing backdrop. There were streams and creeks everywhere and lots of wildlife too. I missed the serene beach Seagrove and every now and then, I missed this searing hot Georgia heat. But not very often.
The ski slopes had opened at Thanksgiving, and Luke had dragged me to Beaver Creek ski. We had driven three hours to ski, and while Beaver Creek was one of the coolest resorts I've ever seen, skiing wasn’t my thing. I had learned to ski, but I was hardly an expert, and I’d been the person who fell off the ski lift each and every time. Of course, the twins took right to it, and were skiing double black Diamond slopes by the end of the week.
I was thrilled that I've gotten a fresh start in Denver. The difficulty of my earlier life kept things in perspective. When I struggled with a test or had a frustrating day in school I remembered what my life was like just seven months ago. And, I never took what I had for granted.
Luke had settled into being a family man with great ease. At first, our plan had been for us to live separately in houses side by side. But once we got engaged, Luke insisted that we move in together. I also tried to keep the twins out of his business at first. But, he made a point of being a role model for them. They had never had a dad, so just as I was a mother figure to them, he became a father figure. He went to their school open houses and their parent-teacher conferences with me.
I always made sure to thank him, but he never wanted any thanks. He pointed out that at thirty-eight years old, he was actually old enough to be their father.
The twins had always been good kids, but now that they were living in a settled household, with two stable adults they did even better. Piper made the volleyball team and Penny joined the debate team. I’d taken them to a child psychologist once who specialized in teenagers, and her assessment was that they were well-adjusted and doing fine.
Luke had hugged me, supportive as always, and said see? You're doing a good job. You've always done a good job. Now quit worrying.
His calm fathering skills made me hopeful that he'd want to have a baby together someday, although he never mentioned it. On Thursdays, I volunteered at a local pediatric clinic just for some experience in the medical field. I asked several of the female pediatricians when they recommended having children. There didn't seem to be a perfect answer. They all said that it was difficult to complete residency with young children but they also didn't advise waiting until I was completely finished either. Since I was getting a late start, I would be well into my thirties before I finished my four year residency.
I never thought I wanted children, because I had spent all of my formative years raising Piper and Penny. But now that they were more independent and they were doing so well, I'd begin to reconsider.
Three months ago, Luke and I were both tested for STDs, and we had done away with the condoms. I was taking birth control pills, and so far they had worked well. Maybe, I should be more careful, and we should use a condom in addition to the birth control pills. But, both of us got a big kick out of him being able to spill his seed inside of my body. It really worked well with our daddy dynamic.
After a short drive I pulled into our garage. Luke had let me choose the house and I chose a spacious home with rooms for each twin an
d a huge game room. Luke and I were on the other side of the house from them, which was a requirement with our lifestyle.
I'd even recently asked him about visiting a club in Denver and he was interested too. Luke had said maybe one day when I was a physician, I wouldn't feel comfortable being a member of a club. But, right now I could wear a domino mask and just not give my name to anyone if I was worried about my future privacy.
Our activities had been fairly tame as of late because of my heavy school schedule. Once I realized that I wasn't going to be working all the time, I signed up to take eighteen hours of tough classes. And, Luke was frequently traveling back and forth to Seattle to try and get an office setup in Denver.
I walked into our kitchen and put my backpack down. I needed to get busy packing for the wedding.
Luke surprised me as I walked in. “I thought you were in Seattle.” I said.
He kissed me on the mouth. “I came back early. How were finals?”
“Stressful, but they're finished now, so I can focus on our wedding full time.”
“Mmm, He kissed me again. Guess what?”
“What?” I asked.
“The twins just left for a sleepover with Casey. They called me because they knew you were taking a test.”
Casey was one of their new friends. I've been able to approve them staying at her house anytime because Casey's mother was one of the doctors that I volunteered for on Thursdays. She was a single mom and Casey was her only daughter. We had a lot of the same philosophies on child-raising and I felt comfortable with the twins going over there, anytime day or night.
“You know what that means,” Luke said.
It meant that after a dry spell, through no fault of our own, it was time for us to play. “It means that you're not Luke right now, you are my daddy for tonight.”
“You are absolutely right.” He locked the doors and set the alarms. When the front door was opened, it let out a chime so we'd have an advanced warning if one of the twins decided to come home to get something. That had happened before, and we had to scramble to get some clothes on.