Chapter thirty-eight: Pi
Kate inhales as she steps inside Thomas's room. He looks up from his spot in his bed and winks at her, causing her to smile. Thomas and her emotions always managed to get ahead of themselves. When they started courting, it felt like they were engage. Now that they were engaged, it felt like that were married. Well, they would be married in a matter of months, Kate was sure of that.
"Hey," he pulls back the covers inviting her in. "come here."
"So bossy." She says with a teasing smile as she pulls off her robe and draping it over the back of a chair.
"Bloody hell," he says as he admires her in her pink satin nightdress. "how'd I manage to get such a beautiful woman to agree to marry me?"
She laughs, as she gets into the bed beside him. "You asked me." he draws the covers over her shoulders, pulling her close to him as he presses kisses on her shoulders. "I would say that we should abstain from any sexual activity until we're married but," he pulls her on top of him, with a rakish smile on his face. "I doubt those words would have any effect on you."
"Right." He toys with a strand of her hair. "Now that I've had you…I find that my appetite for you has only increased."
"Thomas, please." She says as he kisses her throat. "You're making me blush all over."
"How could any man not want you?" Thomas inquired as he runs a gentle hand through her hair. "God, our first time together, I thought my heart would burst because all the feelings I had for you." Kate lays her head down atop his chest. "I could lay with you for hours and still learn something new about you with each passing second." He kisses her nose softly. "I'll never stop wanting you."
Kate kisses him back. "I love you so much that sometimes I don't feel as if I deserve to know a love like this. To feel so strong a love from a man like you."
He frowns slightly. "You're a grand Lady from London, I'm a Romani gypsy. If anything, I don't deserve you."
"Thomas Shelby," she gently strokes his cheekbones. "no man in my life has touched me as you have, even Emmett. Yes, he loved me, but he loved me comfortably. He didn't know me as intimately as you do, you know everything about me. You managed to knock down the walls around my heart…and I will give you everything inside of me that I've been waiting to give to someone." He looks up at her, his blue eyes pinning her in place. "You told me once, that someday I'd meet a man that I'd love far more than he could ever imagine." He wraps his arms around her waist. "It was you. Call our love something akin to magic, but…a single touch or kiss is enough to keep me here with you. I've never known this feeling and I'm glad I get to experience it with you." Thomas kisses her deeply as he turned carefully, trapping her underneath him. "Thomas," she protests lightly as she eagerly returns his kisses. "we've done this-
"Kate," he shakes his head. "I told you once before, with me you won't remember how many times I've kissed. I don't want you to be able to count how many times I've touched, kissed and made love to you." he takes her hand and presses it to his heart. "As long as my heart's beating, I'm going to make sure there's not a day that goes by that you don't feel my love."
"You're so good to me."
"And you're good for me." he kisses her deeply. "When you said that I needed and deserved love…I knew in that moment it was you. I knew it was your heart and love that I wanted. I intend to savor every second I spend in your company."
Kate gasps as he kisses his way down her from neck to her breasts. "Thomas, last night, oh, God!" She immediately starts breathing hard and she can feel a smile on his mouth, which is currently between her breasts. "What did you say…last night to me? In Romani."
He doesn't even bother to look up from his task at hand. "That…was personal Kate."
"Uh," she grips his hair firmly as she brings his head up. He grins at her, that mischievous expression on his face. "yes, it was personal. And this…is a personal moment. Now, tell me, or…I'll ask Arthur or Polly. I'd really prefer to keep them out of our bedroom."
He hesitates for a moment before stating. "I said…bear my child."
Kate started up at him in amazement as she let go of his hair. "You didn't!"
"I did." He stated seriously. "I wasn't going to take any chances on you not agreeing to marry me. I know you, you panic so easily." She nodded in agreement. "This way…should you have a brief inclination to leave me; I wanted a part of me to go with you. And hopefully, that part of me, our child, would bring you back to me."
She smiled as she stroked his cheek. "You'd have been right."
He slides inside of her with an exhale. "Do want a baby right away Kate?"
She nodded eagerly. "Yes, I do." She wraps her arms around his neck. "Can we start making one now?"
"What the f**k do you think I'm doing to you now?" Kate laughs, as does he. God, did they have a very unusual relationship, but their connection, was oh so strong. She let him love her and she'd let him love her all night if he decided.
The following morning,
"Kate?" Thomas calls loudly up the stairs. "Can you come down for a minute?"
"I am not finished dressing yet!" she calls back down the stairs. That man was never giving her a moment's peace! She was trying her second attempt to get dressed this morning. She kept getting distracted by pleasant thoughts as she attempts in vain to cover all the little marks he'd left on her. "I'll be down in ten minutes!"
"Katherine!" Kate's blood freezes in her veins at the sound of her father's voice. "Get down here, now!"
Dropping her powder brush in terror, she grabs her robe and runs down the stairs. All she can envision is her father holding the entire Shelby family at gunpoint! "Don't!" She shouts as she trips on the final step and falls straight into Thomas's arms. "Don't hurt them!"
"What are you talking about?" her father demands. "Why in the world would I hurt them?"
"What the hell are you doing here?" she demands as she pulls the robe around her, vexed to be caught in this manner in front of her father. "What's going on?"
"A fine welcome this is! Gone for almost four months and not a word!" Her father snaps. "At least you appear to be well."
Her brother nods at her as she glowers at her father. "I thought my absence made it clear that I didn't want anything to do with you!"
"So I gathered. Mr. Shelby called me last night and gave me this address." Kate whips around and stares at Thomas, along with the rest of his family. "Told me you were here."
"What," she bites out. "is…he…talking about!?" She half shrieks in fury at him. Frankly, she is so shocked that he'd done such a thing that the very room has transformed from color into black and white!
"I'm collecting the reward on you." he states as he hands the suitcase, presumably full of money over to Arthur, who snorts at him. "Put this in the safe."
"Stupid bastard." Arthur states as he takes the suitcase and drops it on the floor, as if it's boiling hot.
"Thomas Michael Shelby!" she shouts in fury at him. "What the hell were you thinking?
He shrugs. "I was thinking that I'd be a fool not to take it. It is 25,000 pounds after all."
Kate lets out a scream and lunges for Thomas, intent on choking the very life out of the very man she'd been making love with for the last two days!
MeriemDjez: Me neither!
Idcam: They're engaged...but, Kate's kinda furious at him, again! Yes, she knows them, but I'm not branching this story out into season 2.
