Teaching Aleck (The Last Hangman MC #2)(73)

“Forever and always, Aleck. Yes I will marry you, be your wife, the mother of your kids, your best friend, your confidant, your everything, for as long as you’ll have me.” She leans over and kisses me softly but passionately. I f*cking wish I could take her here and now, but I’m not in a position to move.

“Always and forever.” I smile at her and kiss her left ring finger. “Sorry I don’t have a ring ready.”

“I don’t need one, your love is proof enough. Thank god you finally grew up and learnt to love!” She beams at me.

“I had a very good teacher.” I smirk.

“I told you not long ago I would teach you how to love. I was right.” She smirks and winks at me.

“So you were.” I lace our fingers and close my eyes smiling, feeling complete for the first time in my life.

I must have fallen asleep because when I open my eyes and Charline isn’t on the bed with me anymore. I look around and what I see melts my heart; my future wife, asleep on the chair next to my bed, holding our daughter in her arms. I smile watching them.

I never expected life to treat me good. Then Ally came into my life. Five years with my little Pumpkin and then the woman of my dreams agrees to marry me, life can’t get any better than this. I smile as Ally starts to stir.

She squeaks when she sees I’m watching them. “Daddy!” She wiggles out of Charline’s lap and scrambles to the bed, holding my hand in her tiny hands and resting her little chubby cheek in them. I choke back a sob. I’m not one to cry, but f*ck if she’s not bringing me down to my knees with her cuteness.

“Hi, my little Pumpkin. How are you?” I smile looking down at her.

“I’m good and you?” She beams at me.

“I’m much better now.” I stroke her hair and wink at Charline as she wakes up.

“Here.” She gets up and picks up Ally to help her sit on the edge of the bed.

“Thanks, Love.”

“You’re welcome, Baby. I’m going to go get a coffee and let you two talk for a minute.” She winks and kisses the both of us before walking out.

“You love Charline, right?” I bring her closer to me, making sure I don’t hurt myself even more.

“Yes, why?” She cuddles into me carefully and looks up at me.

“I might have asked her to marry me…” I grin at her sheepishly, hoping she’ll accept it.

“So, she will be my mommy?” She looks at me with her eyes wide and the biggest smile on her face.

“Yes, she will, Pumpkin. Would you like that?”

She nods fast and grins wide. “I get to wear a pretty dress too.” She giggles.

“Yes, you do.” I smile and sigh happily kissing the top of her head.

A few minutes later, I smile seeing my future wife walk over with her parents, all smiling at me. Her father nods at me once and smiles, I do the same back. I’m not sure he’s going to approve of the fact that I didn’t ask for his blessing as requested, but at least I know now he approves of me and that’s good enough for me.

I’ve never had anyone’s approval but Cas’ before. My parents, my friends in high school and college, people around town in general. My sister was the only family I had and she isn’t here anymore with me. Not a day goes by where I don’t think about her. She was the first to love me unconditionally, my only example of what love is. Now, I have my brothers, my family, Ally, Charline and her parents. They might not approve of what I do, but I’m sure they saw how much I wanted Charline’s happiness and make sure she gets all she wants in life.

I never expected my life to take such a turn, and a good one at that. I look at my daughter, my woman, her parents and I smile. Things couldn’t get any better than this. I’m where I want to be. I’m where I need to be, with the people who love me and accept me just the way I am.

Fuck me it feels good!





EPILOGUE



Charline

February 4, 2015

These past couple of months have been insane.

Brian tried to kill me, Aleck was shot, I killed someone and Aleck proposed. We can’t be called a boring couple! We didn’t have a traditional start to our relationship, or proposal, but I wouldn’t change it for the world.

Things have changed a lot since Aleck came out of the hospital. We moved into Ayden’s old house together. We didn’t want to waste any time moving in together, but his place was too small and mine brought back a lot of bad memories for all of us so it made sense to move somewhere new. Ayden kindly offered us to move in there until we find a house, but to be honest, I love her house, I always have, I might bug her to let us buy it. It’s weird and a shame not to be living next door to her anymore, but she understands, besides, it doesn’t exactly stop us from seeing each other every day.

I took a longer break from work than I originally planned, but Aleck needed constant care and help around the house, and I wanted to be there to provide it for him. It was a huge adjustment for the both of us and was the cause of many fights as we are both too f*cking stubborn but so far, we have always managed to kiss and make up.

In the beginning, it was hard for him as he couldn’t move at all, the slightest nudge would cause him so much pain. Unfortunately, that meant sex was out of the question for him, but f*cking hell if he didn’t make me pay by teasing me for running my mouth when he was the one being a pain in the ass! Seriously, he was hell bent on trying to drive me crazy and kill me with as many orgasms as he could in a day or spanking me for being a “dirty girl” as he would say because I was going commando under my yoga pants, teasing him as I would walk around. Needless to say, when he was allowed to partake in physical activities again, I was in for a treat.