LUCIUS DEVINE
My heart swelled as I saw Lisa do a small run towards me, her phone in her right hand and nothing more. She stopped in front of me with a wide smile on her face.
“Hey daddy” She stopped in front of me, a huge beam on her face.
“Someone seems to be extra happy tonight” I pointed out, reaching a hand to her hair that was tied in a messy bun.
“I guess so” she pouted softly and looked to the bouquet of white tulips in my hands.
“For me?”
“Who else would it be for other than the one woman I love?” I asked and stretched the bouquet to her.
She received it with both hands and smelt it.
“So nice” she smiled and then looked up at me.
“Want to tell me what’s making you so happy?” I asked, taking a step closer to her and closing the space between us.
Her cheeks were rosy red under the soft moonlight.
“Lucius” she whispered my name softly.
“Yes, love?”
“I know I said I was going to give you a response in seven days…” She turned shy, her cheeks turning even redder.
“But I can just give you a response right now too, right?” She asked and I felt my heart swell yet again.
Fuck, was tonight going to be it?
“You can give me a response whenever you have it, Cupcake” I reached a hand to her cheek and bent so I could look more closely into her face.
“Lucius” she called my name again as I made her look into my eyes which she now seemed to be shyly avoiding.
With our eyes locked and the air around us growing tense and my heart yearning to hear those words, her lips parted and she said the words.
“I can’t do this. I don’t love you” she said and I felt it all shatter.
She came here with wide smiles to tell me she doesn’t love me? That… That could not be.
A thousand and one thoughts ran through my mind all at the same time but I couldn’t say one word out until she chuckled and leaned in, stealing a kiss from me quickly.
“Joking” she giggled and I stood up straight.
“Fuck” I cursed, running a hand through my hair and letting out a heavy breath from my mouth.
“Don’t joke with things like that, Cupcake.” I groaned and then faced her once more.
“Joke cracked. Now be serious and give me my response. For real, this time”
“I love you, Lucius” she said quickly.
Those words, those beautiful words coming from her.
“Say it again” I demanded.
“Don’t rush the words this time. Say it slowly. One after the other. Let me hear you tell me you love me”
The blush on her cheek reddened even more.
“I love you, Lucius. I love you so much, daddy” she said and a smile left my lips.
“I guess I have always….” I cut her off with a kiss, wrapping an arm around her and pulling her up.
The bouquet of tulips dropped to the floor along with her phone as she dropped her hands on my shoulders and kissed me back.
I sucked on her lips with great want and need. This was our first kiss as a fucking couple! We weren’t just sex partners anymore, we weren’t just a man and woman who got off with each other’s help.
We were now lovers and just the thought of it was enough to make my head spin.
My tongue found its way into her very much willing mouth as we kissed hard right in front of her home.
I couldn’t care less of anyone walked out and saw us kissing. They were all going to know now anyways.
My arm on her waist gripped her even more tightly as my other hand went into her hair. Running my hand through her hair, I pulled it out of the lazy bun it had been in.
Breaking the kiss softly for a second, I looked into her pretty eyes as she slowly opened them.
“I love you, Lisa”
“I love you too, Lucius.” She whispered and I moved my lips back to hers, brushing our lips against each other and then licking her lips with my tongue before sucking her lips back into mine, softly.
“I love you so much” I groaned against her lips.
“So much I don’t know what to do with you or myself. I just want to be with you forever.”
“You sound so possessive” she smiled.
“You know I am. When it comes to you, I am possessive and now that you are mine and I am yours, I don’t think I will be able to control my possessiveness” I groaned and she ran her fingers over my shoulders.
“Then I am free to be possessive too?” She asked.
“As much as you want. I would find that very adorable, in fact”
“Can I ask a few questions?” She asked, adjusting in my arms.
“Whatever questions you want to ask, I will be more than willing to answer them” I kissed her neck softly and pulled back to look at her dad’s.
“When did you start falling for me?” She asked with a soft giggle.
“I don’t know when I started falling for you. It felt so natural and I didn’t realize that I was in love until a while later”
“When did you realize then?” She asked and before I could give her a response, she asked another question.
“Do you feel uncomfortable carrying me? You can drop me”
I frowned at her and pulled her closer to my body, pressing her into me.
“Nothing about you feels uncomfortable.”
“And as for when I realized that I was in love with you. It was that night in the garden when you looked into my eyes like you were staring into my soul.”
“If you realised then, why did you ignore me the next day?” She asked.
“Because I wanted… I wanted to stop the feeling. Stupid me had not realised just how much I was obsessed with you, just how much I can’t do without you and I thought I could end things and do away with the feelings but I only fell even more”
“I feel so stupid too” she mumbled.
“I… I thought it was all just lust and nothing more and even when you showed me that you loved me, I chose to ignore the signs. I felt like… I felt like there was no way a man like you would love me”
“And what’s wrong with you? And what’s so good about a man like me? You make me better, Cupcake. I am the one who should feel lucky that I have you.”
“No, I should feel lucky”
“You don’t know how precious you are to me, Cupcake. I wish there was a better word than love. Cause that word isn’t describing what I feel for you enough.”
“But I know it. I know just how much you feel for me” she replied, smiling widely before cupping my face with her hands.
She kissed my lips.
“I love you” she whispered before I kissed her back.
I loved her too and I wasn’t ever going to let go of her. I was going to give her the best life and everything she could ever wish for. And more importantly, I would never let her know the one thing that could ruin this relationship, that could ruin US.
I would never let her know that her father died in my hands. I would never let her know that my hands had been stained with her father’s blood and I had watched life leave him.
She would never know and we would be forever happy and forever in love.