"What ?!" I ask in confusion. My sight immediately shifts to Jennifer, asking her to say it again.
"Marry me," she repeats, slightly squeezes my hands.
"You.. you gotta be kidding me!" I hisses, unconsciously releases my hands from her grip.
"No, I'm not..," she says then grabs my hand again, halting me from getting away from her, "Listen to me.."
I finally sits back and stares her deeply in the eyes. Her eyes glimmer as they always do when she has ideas in her smart mind.
"I love you. You know that, right ?" Jennifer asks as an introduction. I nod to answer her question. Jennifer wipes her tears before continues,
"I've told you couple of times.. I love you so much that I do not care about your past. I only care about you are now and your future. All you told me previously.. your past.. it was.. scary.."
"That's why.. I will leave you," I whisper to her, wiping her tears.
Jennifer shakes her head. "It was scary, but it was your past. This past month, I saw how you suffered.. how you fought to leave your past. And I know.. I know you won't bring that scared to us."
I nod several times. "I won't. I promise I will protect you from anything bad, including my self."
"You are not bad.. unless I have bad taste of man," Jennifer whispers words that makes me chuckle. It makes my snot comes out. That snot makes both of us laugh. The atmosphere becomes slightly cheerful.
"I want to protect you, too," Jennifer continues while rubbing my cheek softly. "Marry me so I can be your wife. As your wife, they can not force me to testify against you if maybe someday they arrested you for your past."
I look at Jennifer in stunned. I feel so lucky to have this woman's love. She is not just having a beautiful face, but also beautiful soul and brain.
"What do you think ?" Jennifer's question draws me back from my reverie.
I shake my head and kiss her before answering. "The answer is no," I say calmly. Jennifer stupefies while tears fall down hearing my answer. I smile as wiping her tears. "Don't cry, Baby.." I utter that before kiss her again. Jennifer lets me take the can ring on her hand..
"I won't let you take my role." I bend down on my one knee and put the can ring in front of her left ring finger.
"Marry me, Jennifer McCourtney. Not so you can not testify against me. But because I want to spend the rest of my live with you. I have never met a woman more beautiful, body and soul, than you. And I am so lucky to have you love me despite all my disgusting past. So please marry me, Jen."
That silly unromantic proposal was the best my head could come up. I stare at Jennifer who is still crying. I have some confidence that she will accept it. Beside, she was the one who proposed to me first, right ? Still, my heart beats faster than usual to wait for her answer.
Slowly, Jennifer nods her head. "Yes," she whispers then repeats nodding for several times after to make it obvious.
I sigh in relieved then slide the can ring through her ring finger. I then kiss her long and deep. I can taste her salty tears still running down to touch her lips. "I love you, Jen," I whisper when I let go her lips.
"I love you, too," she says. She then looks at her engagement 'ring' and chuckles. "I never thought I would be so cheap, accepting a marriage proposal over a can ring," she says jokingly.. Yet she grabs her phone and takes a picture of her 'ring'ed finger.
"Hey.. what are you doing ?" I ask her.
"Updating my social media of course," she says unchantantly.
"Oh.. you really want to make fun of your future husband in front of your friends, aren't you ?" I ask her and tickle her waist.
She laughs, wiggles her body as reaction to my tickle. "This will be a never ending joke on family Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner," she says in between her laughter.
"Alright.. That's it! Today I will drag you to a top notch jewelry shop and buy you the most expensive ring they have there," I reply to her and kiss her.
She shakes her head. "No, this is enough," she says and smiles sheepishly.
"Oh, Boy.. my future wife is so cheap. How lucky I am!" I tease her and kiss her again.
"Oh.. Don't get me wrong, Hubby.. I will demand the most extravaganza wedding dress and wedding dinner," she replies and flicks my nose.
"At your service, Wifey. If my money is not enough, you will kindly lend your hubby some, won't you ? You are a billionaire after all," I whisper to her cheek and kiss it gently.
She laughs again. "I really am a cheap woman. I even need to lend my hubby money to hold my wedding dinner."
I laugh and kiss her passionately. I really love this woman, I think to my self as our tongue entertwined. The beeping sound of her phone alarm forces our lips apart.
"I need to prepare for work. I have trial at 8 this morning," Jennifers says in reluctant. I just nod and let her slips out of my embrace.
While she is taking shower, I stand up and start preparing breakfast. I brew a pot of tea since she must reduce caffeine take for her pregnancy's sake. I also toast a pair of breads while frying an egg for her. I never need a breakfast, but I learn that Jennifer always has breakfast every morning.
While preparing the breakfast on the island, I ask her with loud voice, "When do you think we should get marry, Babe ?"
She doesn't answer. That's weird. She should already finish her shower now and just does her make up. So, she should hear my question.
"Honey.. ?" I call her as walking to approach our bed room. "What are you ..."
I am dumbfounded to see Jennifer sits on the floor still half naked, only wearing bra and panty, crying.
"Hey.. hey... what's wrong ?" I ask in worry. Quickly, I sit down beside her. Jennifer covers her face to hide her tears. "What's wrong, Baby ? Why are you crying ?" I ask her again.
Jennifer only shakes her head and continues crying. Don't know what to do, I can only bring her to my embrace, letting her cries onto my chest.
Many questions come and go into my mind for the reason she cries. Is she sick ? Does she hurt somewhere ? Or maybe she doesn't want to marry me ? Maybe she regrets to accept my proposal ?
@@@@@ AUTHOR'S NOTE @@@@@
A short chapter this time. But really sweet, right ? hehe.. It's been quite sometimes I didn't write a sweet chapter. Well, I plan to have some sweet lovey dovey chapters ahead, maybe even a snu chapter. I don't know, should I put SMUT scene on these coming sweet chapters ? Let me know your preferences, please. ;)