She's the perfect one for me

Chapter sixty-eight
Gwen
I miss him so much. Gosh, I don't know how I miss him so much.
I don't want to let him go. I don't even want to think about it.
I've been trying all this while but I'm going nowhere. I don't want to be apart from him.
When his arms went around mine too, I feel happiness from nowhere descend on me. I feel so happy
I pull apart after a while and look up at him. He was also looking at me, with those eyes he has always had for me all these months.
"Are you alright?" He asks, with concern in his eyes.
I nod briefly, " Thank you for saving me."
He let out a sigh, " It's all my fault. I should have make my research before I took you to the school."
"No," I stop him quickly, " it's not your fault. No one knew she would still be in school. I thought she finished already. I didn't expect to meet her there."
He pulls me to a tight hug, " I'm sorry for avoiding you all this while. Myra told me what had happened on the party night. But the sad thing about it is that I don't remember anything. I was drunk that day. I was thinking about what you said and I ended up drinking too much."
Seriously? So that was why he kissed someone else. He was just drunk and didn't even know what was happening.
Gosh, I was so stupid for believing Ryder was playing me.
I could have gone to look for him the second day. Maybe he would have explained it better and things would have gone smoothly.
I don't believe it's like this.
But whatever, I should clear the matter right now and get it done with.
I pull away again and look up at him, "I told you I don't like older men. Well, I still don't but that doesn't include you. To me, you aren't considered as older. I love everything about you."
He stares for a while, " That should be me."
I blink once, confused.
"That should be my line. I wanted to be the first person to tell you I love you. I love you so very much," he says and smiles.
My heart stops for a moment and starts hammering wild in my chest. I fear it might burst out.
Ryder loves me?
He nods briefly, "I have always loved you so very much, Gwen since the first day I saw you. Call it love at first sight but I knew that with the signal my heart was giving, I must have you."
" Not as someone I want to play. I want you to be the only woman in my bed and the only woman in my heart."
I suck in breathe, the tears come out willingly.
He wipes them away, " Gosh, am I causing the tears?"
I manage to smile amidst it. I nod slowly, "I thought I was going to lose you forever."
He smiles and pulls his head in to capture my mouth in a brief kiss, "I actually thought I would be losing you actually. I've been thinking about it so very much. Eventually, I was able to step forward thanks to Myra."
I laugh again before pulling him into another hug.
"Wow! This is beautiful!" Mrs. Johnson says suddenly.
I pull back immediately. I look at her.
"Were you here the whole time?" Ryder asks.
She smiles and shrugs, "it's always a great sight to see couples confess their love to each other. I didn't want to miss it."
Ryder laughs and pulls me closer again.
I decide to stay the night at his place.
I slept off immediately and woke up inside Ryder's room, on his bed.
I roll aside and he was there, pressing the keyboard on his laptop. He looks serious.
I watch him for a moment. I don't believe this. I don't believe Ryder is now my boyfriend.
I mean a guy all ladies want. Someone Heidi mistreated me for is now my boyfriend. The thought sends happiness all across my body.
It makes me happy. At least I eventually found a guy that will love me for who I am.
I have never had a father figure aside from my father who also joined to treat me badly after the death of my mother.
Now, being with Ryder makes me feel secure.
I have a man like my father, my brother, and my soulmate.
Isn't this amazing?
"Are you happy?" He says suddenly and turns to look at me, a bright smile on his face.
I nod slowly but happily, "I feel like the happiest woman on earth."
He slowly places the laptop in front of him, "Come here," he beckons me over.
I mice closer and he made me curl up in his arm, " Actually, you aren't a woman. You are my baby," he moves his head closer and captures my lips again.
The ringing of the phone pulls him apart. He looks around him for his phone, finds it, and eases it closer to his ear, "Yes hello."
"Where the fuck is Gwen!" Myra's voice almost made me go deaf.
I laugh out loud. Myra really cares about me. She must have expected me to return so early.
I glanced at the wall clock and it was four in the afternoon already.
"Come on," Ryder draws lazily, "She's in her boyfriend's house."
I giggle again.
"She's what?" Myra says again.
"She's in my arms now. In my bed!" He says and drops the phone on the bed to continue kissing me.