Words of Truth
Movement had me lifting my head. I was being held. Blinking, I came aware enough to acknowledge the fact that I was still naked, but wrapped up in a blanket.
Looking about I saw the door of a house and obligingly I opened the door.
"Ah, she awakens. You were out of it there for a while."
Blushing, I combed at my wild hair as he set me down on my feet. It was broad daylight outside.
Blinking, I looked away from the window to him. This was his house.
I was going to live here with him. I was going to have the opportunity to cook, clean, talk, and love this man every day of the year.
How was such a future possible?
Somehow he seemed to read my turbulent thoughts and came closer. His arms came about me and in confession, I whispered, "I don't deserve this."
"I could say the same, but the truth of it is that even as God is giving me the greatest of gifts in you, even so I'm going to do my best to do right by His generosity."
"You believe that your God put us together."
"Yes, I do."
"I need to know Him then."
Caleb pulled back and smiled, "Why yes you do. In the meantime, I'm going to run over to your place and get a few things for you and in the process of doing that I'm also going to get a rather large amount of food for us to devour."
"That sounds wonderful. I'm starving."
"I'll be quick." He left then, but not before he patted my ass.
Smiling, I watched him go. We were going to be the laughing stock of the entire town.
Oh well.
Slowly I moved about my new home. It was modest, but nice.
There were things I could improve but I would do so only with his permission. I had no desire to change Caleb other than to help him drop his own scars of the past and be more like himself.
In some ways I viewed myself almost as his guest as I surely did not deserve all that I had been given. Coming to the bedroom I saw the evidence of a man who'd had no one to care for him in a very long time.
In many ways the whole house just seemed to exist for necessity's sake. That would change.
I would make it into a home for him. I entered the master bathroom and dropped the blanket.
Thankfully, my fair skin was only slightly sunburned. Going to the shower, I turned it on.
I glanced down over myself. In some ways I still felt his hands upon me.