Chapter Eleven
I woke with her still in my hand.
She was snoring that delicate purr.
I just watched her sleep and pictured our life together.
Because, the thing is, very much to my surprise, I realized I was in love. I couldn't begin to explain it. I certainly hadn't planned it. But there it was. Here I was, awakening beside a woman almost three times my age, holding her womb in my hand as I woke, and realizing that I was in love. Not just that I loved her but that I was in love WITH her.
And so I watched her sleep and listened to her snore and contemplated how our lives would be.
I knew, I suppose, that her innocence for all that she had born two daughters, was part of it. So much of what we had done was new to her. It was like I had a virgin bride-to-be.
She was quite pretty in her sleep. Relaxed, the years were shed. I couldn't see the beautiful teenage bride she had been, but I could see the pretty 30-something mom sitting in the bleachers to watch her daughters play basketball or compete in gymnastics tournaments.
She twitched a little and I could see her eyes moving under her lids. I wondered what her dreams held. I fantasized that I was in them.
I guess it WAS a good dream she was having. I saw her nipples get hard, her areolas tighten and caught the first faint whiff of her womanscent. And still, I just held her womb in my hand and watched her sleep.
It was fascinating, watching the dream progress. Her breathing sped up and the scent got stronger. Where my hand held her she got warm and wet and then slick.
I squeezed, very gently, massaging her core, enjoying the way her breath caught as she slept and dreamed.
She was flowing now, a gentle wet warmth on my hand, as I massaged gently.
I could feel the grin spreading across my face as I wondered if I would be able to bring her to orgasm before she woke.
But I couldn't.
Her eyes fluttered open and she smiled.
"Good morning, baby," she said, stretching luxuriously, like a cat, and parting her legs even more, "what a delightful way to wake up."
I kissed her, and used my hand as if I was masturbating, pulling her, squeezing, bringing her along.
She laid back, obviously enjoying what I was doing.
"Don't worry, baby," she said, her voice almost conversational, "I won't hold you to it."
I stopped moving and just held her. "Won't hold me to what?" I asked.
"Oh honey, it was sweet of you, but you don't have to marry me," she said.
I released her then and rolled out of bed. I offered her my hand and she looked puzzled as she took it.
I got her into a sitting position and noticed that her womb was still there, outside of her body.
Then I got to one knee, that classic proposal position everyone knows from movies, and took her hands in mine.
"Edna Rose," I said, holding her eyes with mine, "you have captured my heart. You have captured my soul. Will you accept my body? Will you marry me?"
Her reaction was fascinating.
Her eyes overflowed, her nose started running, and her uterus pulled back into her body like a prairie dog slipping into its hole.
I said no more, just held her eyes and her hands.
"David," she said, her voice a little bubbly, "you don't have to."
I said nothing, just held her eyes and her hands.
"Oh God," she said, her eyes widening, "oh Jesus Christ."
Suddenly she was bawling, great whooping sobs.
I said nothing. I didn't move. I just held her eyes and her hands.
I don't know how long that storm lasted. Long enough that she was an absolute mess. Tears were dripping onto her lap, snot was hanging in thick strings from her chin. Her mouth was open slightly and she was drooling a thick, mucus laden saliva.
I said nothing. I didn't move. I just held her eyes and her hands.
"You mean it," she managed at last.
"You have ruined me for any other woman," I said, more or less mirroring what she had said last night, "you have my heart. You have my soul. Accept my body. Marry me."
"Yes," she said after a long hesitation, "yes," she repeated as she slipped off of the bed and got to her knees so that our knees were touching and our eyes were on the same level, "YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS," she sort of wailed as she threw her arms around me, kissed me, and then wrapped me into a cheek-to-cheek embrace.
"Yes," she whispered, "yes," she repeated, "yes," she said, kissing me again.
She stood then, holding my hands, and I stood with her.
On the bed, I slipped inside of her, missionary position so I could see her face.
She must have said, "yes," a hundred times through a dozen orgasms while we made love on the morning of our wedding day.
I could feel a wonderful pressure as her uterus fought with my erection for space in her vagina.
Our lovemaking lingered. It was slow and tender rather than hard and passionate. And she kept saying "yes" as sort of a chant.
In the end, my control failed when the tightness in her vagina got to be too much. My ejaculation was almost gentle, flowing, filling her, rather than the sudden contraction that was normal.
I kept covering her face with kisses, tasting the salt of tears and snot, and she kept saying "yes" over and over as we lay there, basking in the afterglow.
When I slipped out she sort of whimpered and I hissed, but that didn't stop the kisses or the "yeses."
Finally, my arms tired and I rolled off of her but stayed close so we could share a pillow and keep kissing.
I don't know how long we laid in the afterglow. Long enough for both of us to get our breathing back to normal.
Long enough for us to start saying, "I love you," back and forth.
Finally, she giggled and rolled away, rolled off the bed and headed for the bathroom. I enjoyed watching her go.
I started the shower water running to get hot, went to the toilet to kiss and wipe her, and then held her hand as we stepped into the shower.
We showered and then I actually shaved, something I did rarely since I got out of the Air Force.
She moved behind me as I shaved, watching around my shoulder, and smiling. "Going to look good on your wedding day?" she asked.
"Yes," I said.
I washed the remaining cream off of my face and then sat her in front of the mirror and started on her hair. I brushed and fluffed and used the blow dryer until it was a great curly mass hanging well down her back. I watched as she did her face, pleased to note that she was doing it moderately, not the sort of "Yeah, I'm a bit of a slut" look she had done the last couple of days.