“Wow is right, sweetheart. Told you I’d make it up to you,” Barrett grinned before kissing my lips softly. “So, fucking hot.”
“Do you promise to make it up to me forever?”
Barrett threw his head back and laughed. “Now I think that’s a promise I can keep.”
“Good. We can always get started now.”
He laughed again. “We’ve got all the time in the world, sweetheart. We should take our time. I also like to be adventurous in the bed.”
My eyes widened. “Oh yeah? How adventurous?”
“Like sex in different places, unexpectedly, or with the use of toys and food. There’s nothing sexier than licking off whipped cream from every part of your scrumptious body.”
The ideas of different types of sex turned me on big time. “I’m down. One thousand percent.”
“Good. Because from now on, Skylar, you aremine.” Barrett said as he grabbed me by the waist and buried his face in my neck.
“I wouldn’t want it any other way.”
CHAPTER SIX
Barrett
Now that Ihad my girl, I wasn’t letting her go.
A week after we met, she moved into my cabin, bringing her cat, Fefe, with her. She brought along all of her knickknacks and decorations, as I didn’t mind. My cabin needed a woman’s touch. It was too bare and plain.
I loved everything about Skylar.
From the way she loved taking baths instead of showers, to making sure she did her skincare routine morning and night and sang to her cat while mixing her dinner or scooping her litter box.
Watching her brush her hair, pick out her outfits for work, and make us lunch to spending all of our free time together and enjoying meals, I fell more and more in love with Skylar with every passing day.
As the Christmas season got underway, we did all the corny Christmasy couple things. A sleigh ride in the park, followed by window shopping and looking at all the Christmas decors. The tree lighting ceremony was nice to have someone to keep warmwith and Christmas karaoke at the bar in town, Mixer, was a lot more fun with Skylar than alone.
We even met a few other couples and became close with one couple, Lyra and Nolan.
While out shopping for Skylar, I ran into Nolan, and we ended up shopping for our girlfriends together. I scored the laptop Skylar wanted. The price wasn’t nearly as good as the Black Friday sale, but it was worth it.
On the way home, I swung by the jewelers on a hunch. I just wanted to see what they might have and explore the possibility of getting one. In my mind, Skylar was already my wife. I loved her since I the day we met, and I wanted to make her my wife. So, I asked myself, why wait?
I wanted to lock her downnow.
An hour later, I walked out of the store with a ring. I should’ve known I would’ve. Now to think of the best way to propose.
With our funny way of meeting, which my family loved hearing about, I wanted to do something good.
There was a cop in town I was friendly with named Ares. He was the cop who helped me post bail so quickly for Skylar and me, working with both my lawyer and me. I called him and asked him if he wouldn’t mind doing me a favor. Sure enough, a plan formed and on Christmas Eve, I’d ask Skylar to be my wife.
The weeks leading up to Christmas were harder than I thought with keeping everything a secret. But I distracted myself with work, picking up overtime shifts as I usually did during the holidays. Delivering packages meant long hours and long days, but coming home to Skylar’s smiling face made it all worth it in the end.
Before I knew it, it was Christmas Eve, and I set my plan into motion.
Skylar had a few last-minute errands to run, and Ares planned on approaching her and asking her to come down to the station. I didn’t want to freak her out with getting arrested.
But instead of going to the police station, Ares brought her to me.
I waited in the park, snow gently falling, waiting on bended knee in the center of a heart made of flower petals. When she arrived, Ares handcuffed us both together, Skylar laughing and confused at the same time.
