A/N: All rights go to Stephanie Meyers. I do not own anything except for any characters not originally in the Twilight Saga. I decided to redo this chapter and make it little more loving than the way I had it. I am also going to add more from the last version. I hope you guys like it. Leave you comments in what should happen next and what they should do next as a couple.
Chapter Sixteen: Marcus
Leandra smiles down at me as we sit in my room and I have my head on her lap. She plays with my hair and hums to the song on the radio she got from a human house awhile ago. I smile at her and reach up to touch her hair that she has let out of its usual updo to let it fall down her face. Her hair falls in loose ringlets and frames her face like a halo for an angel. I sit up and look at her with a wide smile on my face. Leandra caresses my cheek and moves to kiss me softly. I pull her into my lap and kiss the palms of her hands before looking back up at her.
"Marcus, are you alright?" Leandra asks.
"I want to ask you something and to remember this forever," I say. Leandra raises a brow and puts her hands on my face, as she waits. "You will never know how much you mean to me. I can tell you I love you every second of every minute of everyday for the rest of eternity and it will never be enough to tell you how much I love you. You consume me. You are the reason that I have been brought back to life. I was a lonely and destroyed man until you cam here. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you and only you. Please say you will be my mate now and forever. Stay at my side as my guard to my physical being and the guard to my heart. Say you will be with me as we fight everyone around us that says we should not be together. Be mine for the rest of eternity."
"Marcus, yes, I will be your now and forever," Leandra whispers. I hold up a ring that I had made for her and smile widely when she gasps at it. The ring is an 18K rose gold ancient ring with a red ruby that sits in the band and smaller diamonds surrounding the red stone. I chuckle and slide the ring onto her left ring finger and kiss her softly. Leandra wraps her arms around my neck and holds me close to her. "I love you so much."
"I love you even more," I whisper back. Leandra lays her head on my shoulder and I hold her close to me. We sit on the couch in silence for a little longer before she has to leave and go help Caius with something.
I smile at Leandra as she walks around my room in nothing but one of my silk button down shirts. She has been looking at all the paintings I have in the room that I have collected over the centuries. Her hair falls down her back and it makes her look like a small child in my shirt.
"You love to collect art?" Leandra asks. She walks back over to me on the bed and she crawls up to lay next to me. She smiles at me when she lays her head on my chest. I run my hand over the top of her head before caressing her cheek softly.
"I used to to keep myself busy, but now I have you to keep me busy," I say with a wide smile to match her smile. Leandra giggles and she sits up to move closer to me. I caress her cheek and lean up to kiss her lips softly, as she moved to straddle my waist.
"You have such a way with words that makes me swoon," Leandra purrs. I growl and hold her close to my chest as I pepper her face with kisses. I hold her close and cup her face.
"I love you, my little lioness," I say. She lays her head on my chest and we sit there for what feels like eternity, in each other's arms and happy as can be.