Chapter Fifteen
My phone buzzed on the floor next to me.
I don’t know why I had put it there. Any connection to the outside world was really the last thing that I wanted right now.
I wasn’t even going to look at it until Henry asked me who it was, I leaned my head back over the edge to see Elyse’s name pop up on the screen.
There was no way in hell I was checking that, it would be nothing but a mood kill.
“It’s just my sister,” I said. “It’s fine, I’ll get back to her tomorrow.”
“Can I talk to you about something?” said Henry, the two of us still naked, but now dry wrapped up in the white sheets of his large round bed.
I lay on my back, looking up at Henry who was curled up next to me, his hand gently caressing underneath what I wondered would be a small scar underneath my collarbone.
I wanted to be scarred. A small scar on my body, to forever remember, like the first time that he and I were together.
We still technically hadn’t had sex yet.
But tonight felt like something more intimate than that, and by the way that he was looking at me right now, I was sure that he felt the same way.
“You know that you can talk to me about anything,” I said, his rippled chest looked so goddamn sexy under the natural light of the stars that was shining dimly into the room.
He smiled. “There are so many things that I want to talk to you about and I know that I shouldn’t say them until, well, you accept the rose… and I don’t want to come on too strong, I can be as patient as you need, Molly. I really can I just…”
“Shhh,” I said bringing my finger to his lips drawing his gaze back into mine as I watched his overthinking mind take over.
I wanted that rose, I wanted to tell him that I chose him.
After today, I could feel myself shaking inside to accept it.
But it was such a far cry from the plan that I had this morning.
Laying here right now, after everything that I had experienced with him, I was completely exposed, but here he was still wanting every little part of me, more than just sexually.
I should have known that whatever this was, was so much stronger than playing some cat and mouse game.
It was as he said at the start, the very words that rang so true to me…
we were meant to meet each other. “I’m right here with you and I’m feeling all the same things that you are, you can tell me anything.
At this point I can guarantee that you’re not going to scare me off. ”
Henry grinned. I watched his shoulders drop and his body loosen up even more around me. I loved that feeling. And I loved it even more as I lay here naked in my orgasmic bliss.
“Of course you are your own person, and you make your own decisions, and this is only an offer. So don’t feel as though it’s something that I want you to do, it’s just something that I think that you would like, and enjoy and…”
I started laughing, as I watched him look a little nervous again.
As much as I found it cute and as much as I loved how something about me made him nervous, so much more nervous than the tall confident striking man that he presented himself as to the rest of the world.
He had just cut a part of me open and drank my blood.
And he loved it, he loved every bit of it.
And with that, he loved me a little bit more.
He never said it, but I could see it in his eyes, I could feel it in his body.
I felt like I really was his. But after everything we had just done, still whatever he had to say made him nervous.
“I’m sorry I’m not laughing at you, I just think I’m a little delirious after today, in a good way.
” I added, “You can just get to the point of what you’re trying to say, that’s all.
” I giggled again and this time he joined me.
“What I was trying to say is, you can come and work for me if you like Molly. Well, not work for me but with me. Although we probably wouldn’t be working that close together, so it wouldn’t be too invasive for you, if you need your space but it’s honestly something that I have been thinking about ever since our first date.
I think that you have so much to offer, and I know that you hate your current job.
It’s just something that I wanted to offer you, you can take your time to think about it all, I don’t expect an answer straight away at all.
I just know how intelligent that you are when it comes to business, and I think that you would have a lot to offer the many different businesses that I’m involved in, it’s just something to think about that’s all.
” He shrugged and as much as my jaw wanted to drop open right now, I forced myself to keep it closed.
“Henry…” I said.
“Yes, Miss Molly.”
“If I do accept this rose… how exactly do you envision our future together?”
“Honestly, just like this. Just like the past two weeks have been. I know that my life is extremely busy, but I imagine dinner dates, nights laughing together, trips away to here when we can or anywhere else in the world that you would like to explore. If you accept that rose, I don’t expect much to change from how we’re feeling right now.
It’s just that both of us are making the exclusive commitment to each other and we can be honest about our relationship to the rest of the world,” he said as his lips dropped.
“Look I know that it’s far from easy dating me.
I know that coming here and secluding ourselves can make it feel that way, but I am well aware of all the unwanted attention that I come with back home.
I know that being with me isn’t the easiest life, but I do want to make it a fun one,” he said.
I kept my jaw locked, my face still as I stared back at a very sexy naked Henry, who was still gently caressing me.
There was no downfall to dating Henry. So what if he liked a little blood, you had to take the good with the bad of people.
And if that was the only downside to the world of good when it came to Henry, I had just proved to myself that I could meet his needs comfortably.
The attention that Henry was talking about I liked, because it didn’t just show my friends and family how much a man like Henry wanted me, but the unwanted attention took pictures of our love to show the world.
That’s if… that’s what this was, was this love?
The future that Henry said that he envisioned for us, sure made it feel like that.
I sat up in bed looking around the room.
I knew that this wasn’t a part of the plan.
This was not how the girls and I decided that this was exactly how I was going to get the man of my dreams. But that was only because I was completely blinded to think that I didn’t already have him.
Of course I did, he wanted this as much as I did.
Maybe even more after he told me how much he had been thinking about our future.
He had offered me a rose, he wanted me in his future, Henry wasn’t someone who just wanted to fuck and leave.
He was here, he wanted me. God, Molly, you’re dream man has even offered you an incredible business opportunity.
I wasn’t waiting anymore. I finally understood the meaning of when you know you know, and now I wished that it was something a little bit shinier than I was accepting.
I spun around, untucking myself from the sheet, running butt naked over to the bench of the bar where a large bouquet of flowers sat. I pulled a long stem rose from bunch, running back over to the bed and cocooning myself back up into the white sheet. Henry laughed as I handed him the rose.
I took a long inhale. At first, he looked confused, but I held his gaze and nodded softly to him.
Henry smiled, holding the long-stemmed rose between his two fingers as his spare hand took hold of mine.
“Miss Molly, would you do me the honors and accept this rose, accept this rose as a token of my feelings for you, of my loyalty to you and my initial promise to you, to start building this incredible, yet colorful life that we both have, and share it as one.”
“Yes, Henry, yes I will.”