CHAPTER 95: TINY BOX

Just right after the burial ceremony, Penelope was completely a different person. The way she spoke, the way she behaved and even the way she treated everyone around her. It seems she made a 360 degree turn and transformed into someone none of us had ever seen her before.


I am fully aware of how much she was hurting and how badly she aches to solve this case, but it was slowly destroying her relationship with the people around her, especially to her daughter. It grudgingly pains me to witness this change of her and I had to do something to prevent her from further ruining herself, which I fully knew she didn’t wish to make.


I love Penelope so much that I am willing to set aside myself and my career and just focus on her. I couldn’t just let her destroy everything she laboriously rebuilt for herself just because of this current situation. I don’t know if she noticed it, but she was slowly drifting away from the people who value and love her all because of what she was dealing with right now. And I couldn’t just sit and watch her. Someone has to guard her actions and behavior, and that someone was me.


I continued pleasuring her inside her bedroom. What I did to her outdoor minutes ago was simply a start off to somehow ease her rummaging thoughts and alleviate her frustrations. Nothing beats a good love making. It was definitely the best remedy for every type of stress and disturbance. Scientific and medical studies proved it to be a hundred percent reliable and useful to suppress and remove worries away.


I made love to her several times until both our bodies were too exhausted to even move. Both nakedly and catching our breaths right after another magnificent intercourse, I cuddled her in my arms as she snuggled at me lovingly.


“Don’t let these things about Nicole take the good of you, Baby. I know you are aware of your actions and behaviors lately, which I am certain you hate as well. As much as all of us here desire to give your father what he fully deserves, you know for a fact that how you deal with everyone else recently was highly incorrect.”


She sighed heavily, “I know and I’m sorry. I didn’t wish to include everyone with my grudge against her, it’s just that I couldn’t control my emotions, especially every time I am frustrated.”


“I know you’re sorry and it wasn’t your intention either to hurt others feelings. Believe me, I believe you and understand you as well. It just pains me seeing you setting a barrier to almost everybody in this household, even to your own daughter, which both of us knew wasn’t right” Another deep sigh escaped from her. “Look at me,” And she did. I gazed down at her with all the love and affection I have for her. “We love you and deeply care for your welfare. We are not your enemies, but your family. It would hurt everyone else if something bad happens to you, especially me. I love you so much, Penelope, and I hate seeing you destroying yourself and your relationship with everyone else. None of these will solve anything. Even if you turn this entire place upside down and tear every piece of furniture here, you couldn’t hasten the case. It takes time, Baby. It takes time just like everything else.”


I wish to voice out my proposal to her, but withheld myself from doing so, because I know this wasn’t the perfect time to talk about it. Penelope was dealing with a lot nowadays and the last thing I wanted from her was to think about it and bury her thoughts even more. I know that my proposal to her wasn’t her top priority as of the moment and I totally and completely understand the situation.


“Just like your proposal?”


I stared at her speechless as she let her eyes lingered at me, waiting for my response. After a minute of silence, I sigh and reply. “Yes, just like my proposal. As much as I desire for it to come to pass soon, I am fully aware that it would also require time before it occurs” I honestly admitted to her.


“We could talk about it now.”


Her uncalled for answer made me blink several times as I bewilderedly gazed at her. “Nah, it’s not that important as of now. I don’t wish for you to bother yourself even more by thinking about it. That thing could wait. We better sleep. I exhausted you too much tonight and you need to rest.”


“What if I beg to disagree with you and tell you that I wish to talk about it now?”


Her persistence made me smile. I know she was just saying these words to alleviate my feelings, to somehow ease me and the slight sadness I am feeling.


“Baby, you are not obliged to deal with that matter if you really don’t want to. I am not pressuring you. I know you had been a lot and adding this proposal issue was untimely. We better sleep, because tomorrow will definitely be a very busy day, especially for you.”


I kissed her hair and closed my eyes. Although my heart yearns for her answer with regards to my proposal to her, now wasn’t the right and perfect time to do that. Maybe after this case, maybe after a year or so, I could finally ask her that question again.


“Will you marry me, Lewis White?”


My eyes swiftly popped open all of a sudden at what I heard and all the sour feeling inside of me completely vanished as I gradually glanced back at her. She was eyeing me with seriousness, void of any humor and uncertainties.


“Come again?”


She smiled widely. Her face was beaming with indescribable vibrance as if she was problem-free and nothing worried her. “Will you marry me, Doctor White?”


“But… What about…”


“It’s just a simple yes or no question, Mr. White? You don’t need further analysis or do certain examinations with it, and even complicatedly think about it. You love me, right?” I unmindfully nodded, utterly speechless with her daring and braveness. “Then will you marry me?”


Finally after retrieving my partially lost self and mind, I made a lunge of her smiling lips and sealed my response with a passionate kiss. My heart was leaping with overflowing joy that beads were starting to form at the corners of my eyes. She responded willingly to my kisses, moving her lips with eagerness, precisely leveling with mine. We only separate to catch our breaths and our eyes meet again, both sparkling under the dim lights.


“Penelope…”


“Was it a yes then?” She teasingly stated, which made my lips fully curve and my tears to fall.


“Yes, Baby, it would be my honor to marry you.”


“And that’s my answer as well, Lewis.”


“Really?”


“Definitely. I can’t live my life without you anymore, Lewis. I don’t wish to go on with life without you in it. I want to be with you for the rest of time and be yours forever.”


Her confession made me swiftly climb down the bed and scramblingly wore my shorts back. She looked at me with confusion and puzzlement.


“Stay just right there, I’ll be back in a flash.”


“Where are you going?”


I wasn’t able to answer her back. At a lightspeed, I ran out of her room and upstairs, straight to my room. Took the tiny box I meticulously bought just for her and ran back to her room. Once back in, I pulled her at the edge of the bed and slowly kneel in front of her as she quizzically stares back at me, obviously unaware of my actions. I held the tiny box up and opened it right in front of her.


“I need to do it the right way, Baby. I am the man and I should be the one asking you about it” After clearing my throat, I once again eagerly asked her the question I had been dying to ask since I fell in love with her. “Will you marry me, Penelope Hunt, and be my better half for eternity?”


She placed a hand at her ajar mouth as her eyes were leaking with overfilled joy and were glued to the piece of diamond ring laying sparkling on the box.


“Yes! I’ll marry you, Baby.”


My heart couldn’t contain the extreme joy I was feeling as I tremblingly wore the ring at her finger. After doing so, I lurch towards her and plunge my lips on hers exuberantly. I kissed her like I never did and our fluids blended with redefined love and desire.


We were supposed to be resting already after our countless love making less than an hour ago, but right after the unexpected occurrence that just took place, her room was once again filled with cries of pleasures and groans of love and passion. Our bodies were once again reunited as one as the four corners of her bedroom bore witness to how we both desire one another. We seized every hour until dawn, doing every position imaginable and rejoicing the birth of our new label together.


I worshiped her body like I never did before. Every part of her was burning with marks of my love for her. I was fully energized as the same goes to her. Exhaustion shied down on us as we rocked ourselves in ecstasy and utmost bliss. She ended our rapturous moment on top of me, blended her love juice with mine after a spectacular ride of life, which rewarded me with extreme content and overflowing satisfaction.


“That was intense, Baby. Good thing your bed was made strong enough to withstand what he did” I was gasping for air as she laid tremblingly on top of me.


“I love you, Lewis. I am beyond joy with you.”


“I love you too, Baby. Words couldn’t explain how happy I am at this moment knowing that we are finally engaged and I am just a step close to handing you my surname.”


“The feeling is mutual, Baby. I couldn’t wait to be Mrs. White.”


What she truthfully conveyed didn’t merely warm my heart, it leaped my soul to ethereal bliss as I locked my arms around her and listened to the rhythm of her heartbeats.