Page 21 of She is Mine

“Hey, baby. Don’t you just love the sound of the waves?” she says dreamily. I kiss the top of her head.

“Not as much as I love you.”

She stands up to kiss me and I sigh into her lips. I wish I could spend every hour of every day with her. She’s so damn perfect. Every day, I feel as though I love her a little more. With everything she does, I notice new things that I adore. The way she tilts her head back when she laughs. The slight tremor in her breath every time I touch her. The way she says my name like it’s sacred. I can barely believe this enigmatic woman is mine forever.

“I want our wedding to be on the beach,” she says with a dazed smile on her face. “I just think it would be beautiful, walking barefoot in the sand toward you, ready to take our vows. I imagine our baby boy in a little suit when he’s old enough to walk down the aisle too, and I think that sounds perfect.”

I smile. We haven’t planned our wedding yet. Though I’ve been desperate to marry her since the day we met, we decided to wait until our baby boy can be a part of the wedding ceremony too. I kiss her cheek.

“You know what, baby? I don’t care where our wedding is. You can have it on the beach if that’s what you want most, all I care about is that someday, I get to put a ring on your finger and make you mine forever.”

She cocks her head to the side with a smile. “But Chase, I’m already yours for life. You know that.”

“I do,” I growl. I kiss her again, feeling the cool air wash over us as we kiss. It hits home once again that I’m the luckiest man alive. Because it’s true that I already know she’s mine for life. I don’t need a marriage certificate to tell me that. Some couples need the wedding to confirm their commitment, but not us. No matter what happens between us, I’ll never leave her. No matter what life throws at us, I’ll always be by her side. And no matter how life tries to force our love apart, it won’t succeed. I look deep into her eyes and I know that our love is eternal, whether we get married or not. Someday, we will, and it’ll be a beautiful day I’ll treasure forever. But moments like this, just the two of us, are just as good. Moments, even where nothing is happening, are still moments to remember forever when I’m at her side.

Because every second with Faith is the best of my life.