“I guess we should go to bed.I’m more exhausted than I think I’ve ever been.”She said that she’d had a long day as well.“We can sleep together tonight and make love all day tomorrow.How about that?”
“I think you have a wonderful mind.”They laughed, and he took her hand into his as she led him to the bedroom.“I’ve been looking forward to this all day, and now I’m going to sleep with you.I don’t care what people will think about your car being in the driveway all night, either.I’m fed up with living my life around others.”
“That’s kind of out there.”She told him that she’d been thinking about quitting her job for a while now.“I can understand that.It must be hard on you to get up every day to clean up messes that have to do with people.I think I’m going to enjoy not having to work hard every day.I just want myself a nice house, a garden for the fresh things that I’ve gotten used to, and have a good life with you.”
“What are you saying when you say that?I mean, we’ve only been out twice, and one of them was us sleeping on the couch.”He said that he was in love with her.“I want you to be sure about that, Wylie.I’ve been in love with you since childhood, and if you break my heart, I’m going to be a shell of a woman from now on.”
“I’m sure about what I’m saying.Today, when I saw you there with the crowd of people, I knew that I wanted to spend the rest of my life with you.”He got down on one knee and pulled out a little blue box.“I saw this, and I thought of you.It’s going to be one of the many things that I buy you from now on because I want to pamper you for the rest of my life.Will you marry me, Rosie?I’m so in love with you that I find that I can’t keep my heart in its place when I think of you.”
“You have to be sure.I’m not going to say yes, then have you change your mind in a few months.If you’re serious, then I am too.Yes, I’ll marry you.”They kissed and held each other.He’d not put the ring on her finger yet, and she found that she didn’t care.She was going to spend the rest of her life with the man of her dreams, and she couldn’t have been happier.Once he put the ring on her finger, she knew he’d spent a lot of time on picking it out.It was perfect for her, and she couldn’t wait to tell her parents.After all this time, she was going to be married to the man of her dreams.Yes, she thought, life was just about as perfect as she’d ever dreamed it would be, and all because she’d found the man of her life.
Chapter 3
Wylie put the condoms on the bedside table and stripped off his pants.He wasn’t rested enough to try and make love, but if she was willing, so was he.He’d never been so happy to be in love as he was tonight.He told himself it wasn’t because he was being laid, it was making love to someone that he loved.Forever.
Getting into bed, he was under the covers before Rosie was, and felt good about that.He didn’t want to have to strip down naked in front of her.He’d be embarrassed at how hard he was.And he was hard.When she came out of the bathroom, she was wearing an oversized shirt.It might well have been one of his; it was so large on her, but he knew better.He’d not been here long enough for her to have taken one of his shirts.
“I bought it.It doesn’t belong to anyone I knew in the past.”He’d not thought of that, but was glad that she’d told him.“I don’t have any pajamas or anything like that.I find it more comfortable to sleep in old T-shirts.I hope I didn’t upset you.”
“No.To be honest, I never thought of that when I saw you in a shirt.I just knew that I hadn’t left you one.”She said she’d like it if he did when he left.“I can do that.Most of my clothes are old anyway.”
When she got into bed with him, he tried to warm her up.Her entire body was chilled, and she was making him colder by getting close to him.Once she stopped shivering, he pulled her into his arms and held her.Her body was soft yet firm, and he loved the way she smelled, too.
“I’ve never had anyone here before.Usually, I go to a hotel when I want to have sex.”He wasn’t sure why she was telling him that, but paid attention.“I don’t do one-night stands either.Up until about a year ago, I was seeing this guy for purely fun.We’d have sex on occasion, then go home.There was nothing really between us other than to get laid.We were friends with benefits, I guess you could call us.I babble when I’m nervous.Are you nervous?”
“I am now that I’m in bed with you.I’m not sure where to begin.”That made her giggle, and he laughed with her.“I know what to do, I’m just not sure that I want to make love to you right now.I just like holding you for a bit.”
“You’re warm.”He said it was because he’d been in bed longer than her.“I don’t think that’s it.You’re really warm.Like cuddly warm.I love it.”She moved closer, and he rolled to his back so that she could lay her head on his chest.“I love the sound of your heart beating.It’s very soothing.I could get used to this.”
As she laid there, he thought of all the things that he’d done to be here tonight.He’d told Kinsey where he was going and the plan, but none of the rest of them.He didn’t want them to feel differently about Rosie if this didn’t work out between them.He didn’t know why, but that was his thought process when he’d decided not to tell them.Moving her hair off his chin, he wondered what it would be like to wake up with Rosie.Closing his eyes, he let himself drift off to sleep while holding onto her.
He didn’t know what time it was when he woke up.The bed was a tangled mess, and he couldn’t seem to figure out what was up or down.Bumping someone in the face, he was sorry as soon as she cried out.Hitting her in the nose wasn’t what he’d meant to do, and he told her that.
“Well, I should hope you didn’t mean to hit me.”She told him to stop moving.“I thought my double bed would be big enough for the two of us, but obviously not.”When she turned on the light, he fell out of bed trying to get away from it.Rosie started laughing as soon as he looked up at her.“This bed isn’t big enough for the two of us, is it?”
“I have a king at home.”He looked over the blankets and pillows that had been tossed off the bed.“I’m thinking that we should have come to my house now.At least we’d both fit.”He stood upand helped her remake the bed.“I’m truly sorry that I hit you.I didn’t know where I was when I woke up.Like you, I don’t do this often enough to be very good at it.”
“I’m sure you were working too hard to form a relationship with anyone.”He told her that it was right.“I’m glad that the two of us can get together to see if this works.I’m sure it will, and I will marry you, but we have some things to work out.I’ll sign a pre-nup for you if that’s what you want.”
“I don’t want that.What I have is yours, and what you have is yours too.I don’t know how much you know about the sale, but I can tell you that we’ve all become millionaires overnight.It’s a heady thing to realize sometimes.”She told him that she’d never known a millionaire before.“Well, now you know a whole family of them.My brothers are all the same as me.”
“I heard that Kinsey was the only one who owned all the land that your grandma left to you.It was great of him to share his millions with the five of you.I’ve also heard that he got the lion’s share of the money.I don’t know which to believe.”He told her what had happened.“I thought as much.Kinsey is a good man, and he’d want to share it equally with the five of you.You’re all good men, and I’m glad to have been around you all my life.”
“I forget about that sometimes.”They were finished making the bed now, and he sat on the edge of it while she got comfortable inside the covers.“I forgot that we all grew up around here together.It’s nice to know that we’ve been friends for a long time and now we’re going to get married.I couldn’t ask for a better partner than you in my life.”
“Thank you.I think so as well.”She opened the covers, and he slid in beside her.The bed was cooler now, but he soon warmed up.When Rosie moved closer to him and snuggled under his chin, Wylie thought that he could live like this forever and not change a thing.“I’m exhausted, but I have to tell you how much I love you being in bed with me.It’s like we’ve been doing this for a long time, like an old married couple.I love you, Wylie.”
“And I love you.”He was ready to close his eyes when he realized that he really was enjoying being in bed with her.It wasn’t a frantic move to have sex but just to be with each other.He decided that other than a bigger bed, they could be like this forever.Just two people in love sleeping together.“Good night, Rosie.”
“Good night, Wylie.”She was asleep in just a few moments, and he found it easy to let sleep slide over him as well.He’d been looking forward to this for so long; he didn’t want to mess things up by fumbling around in the dark to make love.The bed was too small, or he was too big for it, and he was content, for now, to be able to be with Rosie in a more personal way.
When he woke up the next time, the sun was shining through the windows.He was alone in the tiny bed and got up to find Rosie.He found her in the shower, washing her hair.Joining her, she handed him a netted sponge and asked him to wash her back.He was more than happy to oblige.
“I’ve never had anyone wash my back before.It feels really good.”He said that he’d never washed anyone before and was enjoying her moans of appreciation.“Are you hard?”
“I am.I’d like nothing more than to press you against the wall here and plow you.”He washed the back of her arms and then turned her around so that he could wash her front.Her nipples were hard as he was, and he leaned down to suckle one into his mouth.“Perfection, just as I thought it would be.”
Pulling her toward him, he turned her around so that she could sit on the bench seat against the wall.Getting down on his knees in front of her, he opened her legs wide so that he could see her pussy.It was more than he thought he could stand in how beautiful she was.
