A new face after the race
Chapter 69
After all the ambushing followed, Lucky led her to the balcony, to get a moment alone with his fiancée…uh wife, to say a few vows of his own. He didn't get the opportunity to before, as Emily and Lucky agreed that personal vows weren't meant for public.
He placed his forehead against hers, tugging his hands around her waist so that their lips meant, giving her the kiss he wanted to give her, but couldn't as the mutual public thought again.
He pulled away before it got too passionate. "Emily, those words you said to me, they meant the world to me." He told her and Emily meant to interrupt but Lucky put his finger to her mouth to stop her, he meant to have his say. "But they weren't enough, not for me, not for out mutual love and attraction, not to our friendship or our future." He stopped and prepared what he wanted to say, he wanted it to be perfect, because those were the only vows he would tell her, they wouldn't marry again, but stay married, unless they renewed their vows a couple decades from now, but he wasn't thinking that far. Not yet, he wanted to concentrate on the here and now.
"Emily, you changed my life since I first met you in that cold basement where your step father kept me hostage. As much as some would think I would, I wouldn't change that experience for the world. Cold and damp and terrifying that experience was, but it led me to you, an epiphany as I know it now. My life wasn't the same anymore as you entered it, but it didn't bother me none. You were a great friend for all those years, constant, loyal and trustworthy, but then we grew up and became more than friends, we grew crushes and fell in love with each other but didn't have the heart to admit it until Zander at least."
Lucky grew a little embarrassed at that name mention, but neither was affected by the name, not anymore. Those wound had been healed and forgiven.
He continued, expressing his heart. "But then we came to be and here we are, not without our obstacles. We beat death, betrayal, broken truths, life threatening injuries; everything that life has thrown in our way." He paused again before starting up, Emily hanging onto every word. "Now here I stand with you, looking at you, at my wife, who just promised to spend the rest of her life with me and I admit I've made mistakes in our relationship before and I will certainly continue to make them, after all I am human and you should expect no less, but I will do my best to correct every little one I make.
"I want our lives from now on to be as perfect as possible. Kids are a long way off at this point, but that is fine, when we are ready to be parents, we will be, but now it's not desirable. At the moment and a few days until now all I want is to concentrate on us, seeing as we are to get comfortable with the marriage life before anything else. We are bound to make mistakes along the way, but if we learn from them, they will be all worth it.
"I can't stand here and tell you that a year ago from now that we'll be at our wits end with each other, I can't tell the future and what it holds for us and this marriage. We will have our hard times, we will fight, we will say things we regret, but we will come back and apologize and work through them. Nothing is going to be as important as our marriage to me. I've let my work come between us before, but it won't happen again.
"We will face every obstacle that life gives us from this day on together; there is no other way to beat them in my mind. I don't want to ever lose you, physically, mentally, or any other way, we fight for us, for our commitment, for our promises and for whatever future we have ahead of us.
"From now on," He started and lifted Emily's hand with the gold band on it so that it shined in the sun. "It's all about us; there are no other more important people as us, our lives will revolve around what the other person has planned, what is happening, and we will communicate to the best of our abilities. The road from here won't be easy, and they certainly won't be straight, but we'll get there. With us and our determination to make this arrangement work out, we will be celebrating our fiftieth anniversary before we know it."
Silence fell as Lucky finished and Emily's mind collaborated all he said into her mind, it was a handful even for the genius like her. That was a lot of promises and words to contain. Emily looked away from him and to the bright sun.
She wiped her eyes with one hand. "Lucky….I'm not sure what to say to all that." Emily told him speechless.
Lucky laughed and brought her face to his to give her a powerful and passionate kiss. Emily groaned under the pressure and wrapped her arms around his neck. Lucky wrapped his hands around her waist again and tugged her near, as close as she could humanly get.
When it got way too out of line and almost out of their control, Emily pushed him away and laughed, panting some as she caught her breath. "You just had to do that, didn't you?" She supposed, gaining her composure back.
Lucky tugged her back to his tight grip and just flashed the Spencer grin down at her. "Don't you know it?" He told her before making their lips touch again, but Emily didn't let her guard down that time, she knew what he was thinking.
Emily pulled their lips apart as the pressure between them grew. "Spencer, you reserve those urges for the honeymoon." She advised him.
"The honeymoon is so far away from now." Lucky complained and nuzzled her ear.
"I know that, but our guests are waiting for the bride and groom to start the dancing and eating of the cake." Emily told him and led him one step towards the reception.
"True..." Lucky responded and tugged her back, so that she fell back into his tight embrace. "But you have to tell me a few things first." He told her, flashing a quick smile.
"Define 'things'." Emily's eyes narrowed in suspicion.
"Come on Em, trust your husband." Emily glared at him but let it go and put her hands on her hips.
"Fine, shoot." Emily told him and waited for him to continue.
"Tell me you trust me." He playfully ordered her.
"I trust you with my life." Emily replied.
"Tell me you want to spend the rest of your life with me." He advised her.
"Lucky, I already told you I did, now let's go back to our guests before…" Emily was cut off as Lucky pulled her back to him again.
"I know you did, but in the exact words I said them in." Lucky watched Emily roll her eyes, but did as he asked anyway.
"I want to spend the rest of my life with you." She repeated his words.
"Good, now tell me you love me." He ordered her, enjoying this game mightily.
"Lucky, we don't have time for this now." She struggled in his tight embrace but his hold only tightened more on her, almost painfully.
"Just tell me, Emily." He insisted but Emily still resisted.
"Lucky…" She pleaded with him, even though she knew he was only being playful. They really didn't have the time for this though. Not now, when they were plenty of guests inside waiting for their appearance.
"Emily, I'm not letting you go until you say it." Lucky told her, deciding to use other tactics to gain her full attention. He turned her in his grip and started nuzzling her neck.
"I'm sure I can call security." Emily insisted, helplessly.
"Ah, but you have to get out of this grip first." Lucky started nipping at her ear.
"Can't you just let me go?" Emily supposed.
"Nope, can't do that until you do as I say." He told her.
"Fine, I love you okay? Now let me go. We do have company inside you know." Emily played into his hands.
"Tell me you will love me forever." Lucky whispered in her ear.
"You're pushing it Spencer, you know that right?" Emily tried a few other tactics she had in mind to keep a Spencer man tamed.
"Ah, but you're a Spencer too." He answered.
"I'm a Spencer's wife, only by name and deed and in a temporary moment of insanity I married him." Emily told him, obviously pushing his buttons so she could get free.
"Hey, what does that mean?" He demanded of her.
"It means you are wrinkling my dress." She answered, as she got away from him. She went to the other side of the balcony and looked out across the scenery from up high.
Lucky walked to where she was and wrapped his arms around her again. "Okay, okay, I am pushing it, but I promise if you just tell me you will love forever I will let it go and we can go back in and face the horde." He told her.
Emily smiled as the cold shoulder tactic worked, but to be sure, she had to ask "Promise?"
She looked back at him and looked at him inquiringly. Lucky smiled at her and said "Yes, I promise." He reassured her.
"Good, because I would love you forever even if you are a jerk and I married you out of temporary insanity." Emily smiled over at him, placing a tease or two in there as well.
"Hey!" Lucky resented that but Emily just laughed and grabbed Lucky's hand as they stepped back into the reception and its guests, to start their new life together.
Author's note: Yes, this is the end of my beloved story, the fourth installation will come eventually, but the timeline in my life is going to be dramatically changing, so can't say when, so eventually. To everyone who read and reviewed, thank you, i hope you liked the ending i created and i really appreciated the support you gave while i was writing this. It kept me going and putting out those chapters. So again, thanks to all who read and reviewed, please do check out my other fics, especially my news ones "a change within" and "from the heart", as well as all my other stories. So until the fourth installation of the seriesis upon us, this is goodbye.