The Secret Obsession of the CEO-Chapter 221: The Proposal (4)

"I’m glad I can see it too..." Liam said.

"Huh?" Rory looked at him. She didn’t quite hear what he said.

"You do have very pretty eyes..." Liam held her hand. "And I have an idea how your dad would have felt when he held you. When you hold your daughter... It’s..." Liam’s voice cracked.

Rory saw a glint in Liam’s eyes as the colors fluttered around the vast sky. She tried to get down to sit with him. She wanted to hear him say how he felt when he touched his daughter for the very first time.

But he pushed her up. "Don’t... the floor is cold..."

"But the railings are stone, and it is cold too! At least you will be warm" Rory forcefully tried to sit with him. She did not like to sit away from him.

"Here," he pointed at his lap, and Rory with a shrug sat on his lap. He wrapped his arm around her waist and pulled her close to his chest.

"You have no idea how much you’ve given me, Cherry..." he kissed her cheek. "You’ve made me the man I am today. Still incomplete and need improvement, but still... "

"Tell me more about Ellie," she said. He keeps on saying that she made him. She didn’t remember making him. He made himself. He did so well in the year she was not with him. She didn’t know what he was on about.

"How did you feel?" he asked.

"Hmm..." Rory leaned the back of her head on his shoulder. "I was awed. I couldn’t believe I made her. And... I wanted to protect her. I wanted to do everything for her."

"I felt the same too," Liam said. "Although I did nothing to get her."

"What are you saying?" Rory playfully hit his arm. "You did plenty of work that morning to make her," she laughed.

"...I did, didn’t I?" Liam laughed with her. "Ah, that was really good... We rarely had morning s*x those days and you looked so sexy in that underwear..."

Rory cleared her throat. Thinking of that day made her remember what Lennon said to her. She didn’t want to, but she did. It made her scared.

"I have something important to say to you, Cherry," Liam interlocked his fingers with hers. Rory snapped out of her dark thoughts.

That’s right. I am with the man I love, and the man who loves me and protects me. I don’t have to be scared anymore.

She gripped his hand hard. "What is it?" she asked. She didn’t want to let go of his fingers ever again.

"I know you don’t want another baby. I don’t know if now the right time for me is to say this. I feel so selfish at times when I talk to you. You give and give and yet I am still asking more..."

"Don’t be like this!" she hit his chin with her head lightly.

"I want to have another baby with you..." he said and waited. He wanted to stop right there if she was not interested to hear more. But since she did not seem anxious, he continued. "I wanted to be supportive of you throughout the pregnancy and... I want us to do it together, Cherry...It’s fine if you haven’t changed your mind or find that unacceptable. I will accept that for now. We don’t have to do it now. But maybe... think about it harder a few years down the road, maybe...? We are still young, and we have a lot of fertile years ahead of us..."

"Hmmm..." Rory nodded. "I was thinking about it too...It would be better for Ellie to have a sibling, don’t you think?"

Liam said nothing and kissed her earlobe. He wanted to jump for joy, but he didn’t want to seem to aggressively pursue this issue.

"Maybe after a couple of years?" she looked at him. She was thinking about it too and she was glad he brought it up by himself. He must really want another baby.

"But having another baby to correct a mistake is not so good, right?" she asked him. He sounded like he wanted another baby as a do-over for what he did or didn’t do right with Ellie.

"That’s not the only reason, you know," Liam’s hold on her waist tightened and he pulled her closer to his crotch. She could feel his "excitement".

She forgot that the position they were in used to be his favorite position for some time.

"I wanted to know how you’ll react to... You know we’ll have to do "that" to have a baby, right?" he hissed in her ear.

Rory could feel that Liam had turned very warm, and, on her back, she could feel his pounding heart. He rubbed his big warm hand over her abdomen as he nibbled on her ear.

"Fizzy..." she hissed as he kissed her neck. She grabbed the hair at the back of his head in between her fingers and her chest curved as she enjoyed his tantalizing touches. She threw up her knee and her dress slipped over her smooth thigh and rested at her crotch. Under the glimmering sky, her smooth knees were a sight to behold.

Liam placed his hand on her knee and slowly slid it down her thigh. And like on cue, Rory spread her legs apart so that his fingers may touch her sensitive parts aching for a touch.

"Are you getting turned on?" he asked.

"Yeah," Rory turned and pressed her lips to his. His silly question should have dampened her mood, but it didn’t. Hearing him say what it was and getting back that feeling she used to enjoy in the past, turned her on more.

"Touch me more, Fizzy," she shifted her legs to sit on his lap comfortably.

But something slid away getting kicked by her shoe. It sounded like a small...jewelry box?

Liam’s eyes widened and he pushed her. Rory ended up falling on the floor on her butt. Liam scuffled on the floor with his hands to search for the box. He couldn’t believe that he could screw up that badly. He wanted to make her wear the ring before he made a move on her, and he couldn’t keep his lust in check.

Now he even lost the box! The ring... Where is it?

"It is to your right, just a foot away," Rory said. She could see that dark-colored box on the floor.

He could have found it if he was calm, or he could have turned on the torch. She didn’t understand why he got that flustered. He even pushed her away! Adorable!

That should be the ring, right? I bet it is!

She went through various scenarios in her mind. She didn’t even mind the slight pain in her back as he landed hard on the stone floor. She then decided to play dumb. She thought he would appreciate it if he surprised her with the ring.

"Is that caviar?" she said the dumbest thing she could say. She regretted saying that. Why didn’t she come up with something else? That obviously is a jewelry box! She could have asked if he bought her an earring or something else.

Stupid!

Liam turned at her and started laughing. She didn’t know why he laughed. But hearing him laugh, she started laughing too. His laugh was contagious.

"No, silly... I got you a ring!" he said, kneeling in front of her.

Rory met with his eyes. The sky had gone dark, but she still could see his intense eyes. And her heart started to pound. She quickly fixed her clothes. She was still spreading her legs in front of him.

How unsightly!

"Will you stand up so I could say my..." he let out a sigh. "God! I forgot everything I wanted to say to you... I’ll say something... so, Cherry, will you stand up, please?" he asked.

"Ah, why are you doing this?" Rory covered her face with her hands. "My legs are weak... I can’t stand up. And who proposes to their wife?" she asked,

"Come on..." Liam stood up with a chuckle. "Why are you so adorable?" he helped her stand. "It’s every man’s wish to stand on his knee to propose... Don’t spoil my dream."

Rory could only laugh. What is this silliness he is spouting?

"Okay, I am ready," she stood nervously in front of him. She couldn’t stop giggling, and if there were lights, Liam would have seen that her face was blushed bright red.

"Aurora Mauve Roberts," Liam knelt in front of her. And as if on cue, the sky lit up with the Northern Lights again. And this time, the sky was dancing with green curtains of flames.

"Will you stay with me for the rest of my life? I know I have not achieved anything yet. However, I do not want to live without you. I want you to be with me sharing my future. I want us to build our lives together. I want to share my success with you and overcome tough times with you...I want to wake up looking at your face every day for the rest of my life and go to sleep cuddling you. I want us to raise Ellie and many of our kids together, and..."

"Many of?" Rory interjected him. "And you haven’t even shown me the ring yet! How will I answer?" she asked.

He wanted a girlfriend. She’ll act like one.