“Anything. Just smile.”
“I could fuck you in this pool. Or I could take you up on the roof like the first time,” he suggests.
“You would do it again, wouldn’t you?”
“Fuck you on the roof until your palms bled? Yeah, I would.”
“I don’t know how much I like rooftops after nearly falling off one.”
“That was an accident.”
“I know, but still.”
“You know I love you,” he tells me, and my heart leaps in my chest. Hearing the words leave his mouth never gets old. I love hearing them coming from him.
“I love you too.”
“And one day I’m going to get you a better ring,” he says as he pulls back and fingers the string still wrapped on my finger.
“I don’t mind this one.”
“I know you don’t, but I mean it. You deserve more,” he says.
“Don’t do this right now, Royal. I have everything I want.”
“Oh yeah? What is it you want?”
“Just you. I just want you.”
“You have me. Forever, River.”
“I don’t know if that’s long enough.”
“Then you have me for however long you want,” he says with a smile that melts me inside. This man has been everything to me. He’s given me everything he possibly can and then some. All I really ever needed was his heart, and now that’s mine too.
“What do you want one day? A big house? Small house?” he asks.
“Small house. Nothing fancy. A big yard for the kids,” I tell him, daydreaming.
“Kids? You want kids?”
“One day. Don’t you?”
“A bunch of little River’s running around with that mouth?” he laughs as I splash at him.
“I’m not that bad.”
“You’re not?” he teases me.
“No!”
“You’re right. One day I wouldn’t mind that either.”
“Really?”
“I’d give you whatever you wanted, River. You should know that already,” he tells me.
“I do know that. And I don’t need anything fancy. Just … simple.”
