Virgin for Sale

Let them watch.

All I care about is this man. The love of my life and the future we’re going to make with each other.

“I’ve got to tell Kerry,” I say.

“She knows.”

“What?”

“I already told her I wanted to marry you, and she gave me her blessing, not that it would stop me. I fucking love you, and nothing was getting in my way.”

I can’t help but chuckle.

In a matter of minutes, I’ve gone from feeling so afraid to joyous that I’m his. I belong to him, and no one is taking him away from him.

“Your meeting,” I say, remembering we’ve got responsibilities that don’t include making out or marriage proposals.

“Make them wait. I’m kissing my fiancée, and I’d much rather be doing that than sitting with a bunch of men.”

He pushes me to the desk, and I wrap my arms around him, holding him close as his kiss consumes me.

This is what I’d been hoping for, and never in my wildest dreams did I think it would actually happen.

Epilogue

Chase

Two years later

that ever happened to me. I didn’t think there was anything that could top that. Watching her walk down the aisle dressed in white, I remembered walking into

her virginity, and as she came to me in front of our friends and colleagues in a church, I knew this moment would stay with me forever. Moving in together was another on the list of our shared moments. She went back to college, at my request, and I shared guardianship of Kerry, who in the last two

those shared moments I’ll never forget. Faye’s stomach is already nicely rounded, and the test she took had surpassed the happiness we experienced at our wedding. She’d been sick several mornings, and I’d finally bought a

and I’d stayed with her even as she peed on the stick. Together, we’d held hands and watched as the test confirmed we were expecting our first

find out exactly what the sex

I don’t care.

Boy or girl.

my wife are healthy,

doctor returns, and Faye holds my hand even

is your first baby.” The doctor smiles, and I

first ultrasound, but on the last one our baby didn’t want

her stomach, and my throat

that? You are going to be parents to a

stare at Faye and see

happy?”

“Yes. So happy.”

baby. Me

****

Faye