'I realize it's because at this point we don't need words to communicate to one another about our feelings.
Our souls do the talking for us.'
Watching Samantha cry like she is crying breaks my heart, making me want to cry with her but I know I should not.
I should always be the support and strength she can rely on.
The living room is full of cries and sniffles.
Samantha is crying, her parents are and so is her brother too.
Am torn in comforting my fiancé and looking at the rest of her family feeling helpless.
Mrs Adams breaks and her legs give up on her while crying but her husband holds her before she hits the floor and they cry together.
It's a situation you wouldn't want to find yourself in. I hold Samantha so tight and comfort her with my hand running up and down the back whilst comforting her with soothing words I keep whispering in her ear for her only to get.
It takes some time but she eventually stops and looks at me.
I feel her gaze and look down to find her staring at me.
Once am captured in her gaze, it's eventually me and her only and no one else matters.
I hold her face with my other free hand and run my thumb up and down her cheek as I become a prisoner of her eyes.
She looks so sad but I can detect relief in those eyes.
I move my thumb and run it on her lower lip. She is looking at me like I am her masterpiece.
Drowning in the moment between us, I lean in slowly and brush my lips over hers. At first, none of us move but then I close my eyes and start kissing her and moving my lips over hers in sync, wanting to take away each sorrow in the kiss.
We pull away and look at one another before we move again in a rough but caring kiss.
We pull back and I kiss both of her cheeks before I hug her close to my body.
She rests her head on my shoulder and we dwell in a moment like it's the two of us in the whole wide world and nobody else there.
I can feel her heart and it's beating as hard as mine.
"Excuse me?" We pull away again remembering that we are not alone.
Their father gets up with his wife, and Mrs Adams walks out of the room.
Samantha lets go of my hand and goes to him. "May I hug you?" I look at his dad as different emotions run in his eyes.
He nods and they engulf one another in a tight hug, I can tell by the way she is clutching on him how much she wants it.
They hug for some time and looking at them my heart is finding relief of its own for my girl.
I love this so much for my darling fiancé.
It's when Mrs Adams comes back that they pull away and join her in the hug with Yarrow Simmons.
It's a beautiful moment but it feels even more special when Samantha calls me in the hug.
It's not something I would refuse, so I get on my feet and put her in the middle while circling my arms around Mrs Adams and her brother.
We hug like that for some time and we are pulled away by a baby's cry.
"Oh way to remind us you are there Sumac." Mrs Adams says jokingly and she manages to cut the tension with our chuckle.
"I will go and see him." She kisses her husband.
I keep my eyes on Samantha every time. She looks at his dad and smiles a little.
"Thank you for saying what you said to me." He nods not looking into her eyes.
She steps forward and takes his hand in her hold. "Dad." She waits until he looks at her.
I realize the old man still has tears in his eyes.
"I forgive you okay? Please stop punishing yourself so hard because you have nothing to beat yourself for. I have to admit when you treated me like that it hurt, but then I had the most strong and comforting support beside me to take me through it all, it wasn't as bad as you think it was." I feel my heart melt and butterflies fill my stomach when she turns to look at me when saying that.
"Am sorry our family had to go through that. And am sorry it took so much time for me to realize that we all make mistakes. I resented you for believing fake words but then you were torn between Savannah and me. Can we move on from it?"
"I will be the first to second that." Her brother says and Samantha turns to him.
"Shut up, you never even told me all these happened?" He looks torn between his sister and father. "I swear I didn't know how to say anything this time, you know I tell you everything."
"I will third that." It's when I say that they turn to look at me, and I smile at my Fiancé.
I would love it for her to make peace with her family and if she is the one who wants it, who is there to deny her?
"I will say yes to that too." We look at Mrs Adams as she walks back into the living with a calm baby in her hands.
"Thank you, sweetheart," Samantha nods then we all look at his father.
He is the one left but he keeps his gaze on his daughter.
"Am very proud of you." He says to her before he nods his head. "I would love it for our family to move past what happened." Samantha smiles before throwing her arms around her dad and then in a moment we are hugging one another one by one this time.
"Do you want to hold him?" Her mother asks Samantha when they pull away.
"Oh yes please."
"Okay." She says handing the baby to Samantha. I don't want to dwell on it much but the image of Samantha with a baby in his arms does things to me that I know it shouldn't be doing to me.
"Darling, meet your older sister, Lily Samantha. Lily Samantha meet your bother Sumac."
"Sumac." She says as she rocks him left and right in her arms.
"He is so beautiful."
"I know so perfect." Her mother replies.
"So perfect."
She looks up at me and then smiles at me.
I look away from her clenching my jaw because her holding a baby is making me think things that I know I shouldn't be thinking not now at least.
Samantha keeps the baby with her alongside her the whole time.
Mrs Adams serves dinner and we get to enjoy dinner with them.
"I can not believe at just eighteen you are engaged darling, it makes me so emotional. You are a woman. You've always been so wise than your age it doesn't surprise me." Samantha looks up at her mother and smiles.
"Do you remember when I didn't want to come here?" Her family all nod their head with a smile. "Now think what could have happened to me?" She turns to me. "We would not have met, we would not be together now." She looks at her dad and smiles then brings her gaze back on me. "It's all thanks to dad that we met."
"I think we would have found each other either way, I think we were always meant to be," I reply to her.
It's not that I don't want to give her dad credit or anything, I just simply mean either then or later, Samantha and I would have found each other no matter what.
"I think we were too." I bring her hand held in mine and kiss her knuckles.
"I just have to say, I love the way you look at each other." I smile respectively at her mother.
"Dad, allow me to express my gratitude for bringing me here beyond my agreement. Like always you know better. Meeting Kai, I think it's the best thing that has ever happened to me." He offers her a smile.
"I would hope that."
It turns out to be a good choice to stop by and meet Samantha's parents.
She is happy the whole time after the incident.
The baby sniffles in her arms when we are wrapping up dinner. "He might be hungry." Mrs Adams says.
"Give him to me I will feed him and make him sleep."
"Can I come with you?"
"Yes, come let's go." Samantha turns and smiles at me. "I will be right back." I nod my head at her.
She walks with her mother out of the dining room.
I am left there with Mr Adams and Samantha's brother.
"Trenton."
"Yes sir." I look up at the middle-aged man and hold his gaze.
"Please take care of my daughter. I know I failed her. I mean ever since we got here I don't know where I went wrong, I have been beating myself up thinking that maybe she was better off if I would have let her stay in America like she wanted. I don't know if she told you but she wanted to stay and I forced her to come." Samantha hasn't told me that.
"You don't know what her words just a moment ago did to me. Hearing her thank me for bringing her here pulls a shadow over my head that has been eating me ever since what I did. Am not going to lie because I love it so much that at least in the wrong choices I have made for her, she managed to find something good in them." His words feel so heavy and I love that he has this change.
It's a shame because Samantha isn't here to hear them. After all, I know it would make her so happy to hear her father say this to her.
"So please Trenton take good care of my daughter I beg of you, within my failures I hope that I still have the chance to at least ask for that. I can not ask anything from you because I know I lost the chance to do that when I treated you the way I did alongside my daughter on the other hand for the sake of me being her father, I ask you to please make her happy and protect her?"
"Mr Adams please know that you will always be the father of the woman I am in love with, and you will always have my respect no matter what. For full disclosure, I don't take you as a failure because I don't think you failed." We hold each other gaze. "I think you acting the way you did came from a place of caring though I would argue and say you took it way further but I think you care and you do not have to worry about me."
Saying the next words…
I feel like I want to close my eyes and go all dreamy of how Samantha means to me but I stop myself knowing this is her father.
I should be watching what I say and what I don't.
"Samantha, you daughter, changed me. She brought lightness into my life, she filled my life with her brightness and good scent that I can't imagine my world or life without her in it. I want nothing but to spend this life showering her with happiness, love, care, and all good things I can get to her because of what she made of me." I want to carry on but I don't think Mr Adams would appreciate it.
I look at him and nod my head.
"I will take good care of her."
"Thank you." We say nothing else to another.
Except Samantha's brother tries to talk to me and I love how intrigued he is of things.
We keep the conversation light till Samantha comes later and we say our goodbyes.
"Please do visit us as often as it can get."
"Yes, Mrs Adams."
We said our goodbyes and got in the car to go back to the hotel where we checked in to call it a night.
"What did mom and dad mean when they said, you sent them a message after what happened? What did you do?" I turn to glance at Samantha and shrug my shoulders.
"Am sorry if I overstepped darling, but after what happened I wrote a letter to your father telling him that whatever he thinks happened is not how it went. I told him the truth, that I love you, I care for you and I asked for his apology that he had to know that way but it wasn't like he took it." I say in a small voice to her.
I don't take my eyes off of the road to see if she is looking but I don't have to do so to know that she is because I can feel her gaze on me.
I turn to look at her quickly and she offers me one of her many beautiful grins. "Thank you?"
"For what?" I ask turning back to look at the road.
"For everything. For meeting me, for loving me, for caring for me the way you do, for trusting me, for giving my life a purpose and meaning, for everything. Thank you." I wish I wasn't driving.
I look at her before I reach for her hand, wanting to settle for that at the moment.
I raise it to my lips.
She doesn't say anything and when I turn to hold her gaze again for a second. I realize it's because at this point we don't need words to communicate to one another about our feelings.
Our souls do the talking for us.
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THANK YOU FOR READING.
Is it just me or do y'all also feel like we are getting closer to the end?
I feel like I could cry but I still did anyway.
This is so emotional.
These are my first characters that I feel like I don't want to let go…
But till the next chapter,
Take good care of yourselves,
Love you always!
Chao!!