The New York Detective That Complicated My Life
I stand in the shower for easily 30 minutes, just trying to get the smell of Garbage out of my skin. When I get out of the shower, I realize I forgot to bring clothes with me into the bathroom.
Muttering under my breath, I grab a towel and wrap it around my body. I open the bathroom door and walk out. As I finish tucking the towel in, I hear Flack's voice.
"I like what I'm seeing Annabel." He whistles slightly.
"It's a towel, it can't be that appealing." I roll my eyes slightly as I walk into my bedroom.
"You know damn well I'm not talking about the towel." He responds as he follows me into the bedroom.
"Don, what are you doing in here?" I ask, turning around to face him which was a mistake because he grabs the edge of my towel and pulls me towards him.
"We have some time to spare before we have to meet the rest of them." He pulls on the edge of my towel slightly.
"Yeah... no. Sorry to disappoint." I grab his hand and take it off my towel.
"Your no fun." He kisses me before walking out of the room and shutting the door behind him.
Once the door is shut, I walk over to the door and lock it just for good measure. I then take off my towel and walk over to My closet and take out a pair of Jeans, a dark green tang top shirt and brown high-heeled sandals with dark green accents. After I finish getting dressed, I walk over to the door and unlock it. I then walk out and of course I have Flack rounding the corner.
He scans me head to toe with his eyes before speaking up.
"I gotta say, I think I like you in a towel better."
"I think most men would agree with you on that."
"If their agreeing with me on that, there's something wrong. You still though look amazingly beautiful." He leans forward slightly. "Offer still stands."
"Offer is still being declined... For now. Shouldn't we head out soon?" I ask him, looking over his shoulder.
"I was told not to leave until Stella calls. Off subject here but you never answered me." I look up at him and raise my eyebrow.
"About?"
"Whether you would move in with me or not." ohh yeah, that little chestnut. Well, I have been thinking and I realized, If I love him and I know he feels the same, then I should move in because it wouldn't make sense not to. So, let's mess with him a bit shall we?
"Really? Cause I could have sworn that I said yes, then again I'm probably mistaken." He looks at me for a moment, and then get's what I'm saying. He pulls me up against him.
"Do you have to yank my chain?" He asks as he kisses the top of my still wet head.
"What can I say, I live for it."
"Should I be concerned that you live to do this to me?"
"I don't know, you're the detective. Figure it out." I pull away from to grab a bottle of water from the fridge.
"Wow, that's cold." I take a drink from the bottle, then set it down. I open my mouth, but his phone rings. He actually has to walk to the counter across the room to answer it.
"I'm surprised your phone isn't surgically attached to your belt this time."
"Someones vicious today." He picks up his phone and answers it.
"Flack." He answers. "Hey Stella, yeah we're leaving right now. See you shortly." He hangs up then sticks the phone in my pocket.
"We've been summoned." He walks over to my door and opens it, motioning for me to walk through.
"You know I can open doors right?" I ask as I walk out the door. He just shakes his head as he shuts and locks the door with my keys.
We take the silent walk down to his car, and the silent to the bar they ordered me to go to in a way. When we both get out of the car, Stella's out front. She walks up to us and pulls me into a hug.
"Didn't trust us that we would make it on our own?" I ask as she pulls away.
"Couldn't take any chances now could we? Come on the rest of them is inside." She starts walking towards the entrance.
Flack curls an arm around the back of my waist and tucks me closer to him. We then follow her towards the entrance. When we get in, Stella leads us towards the back of the place and to a table where Mac, Hawkes, Danny, are all sitting. Danny stands up from the table and walks over to me. At this point, Flack reluctantly let's go.
"There you are." He leans forwards and gives me a slight hug. "Still smell like whatever the hell was in that trash bin. Don't worry I've got the same smell."
"I think the smells going to permeate from my skin for a while." I respond as Danny walks over to Flack and gives him a half man hug thing before we all sit down.
"So.." Mac starts out. "Interesting first day huh?" I laugh slightly.
"More like freaking hectic but interesting's good too."
"How do you guys handle all that? The rush of it all? I almost had a heart attack."
"That's just our jobs."
"Wait, Annabel I have a question. When are you taking Flack to meet your parents?" Danny asks, causing everyone to look at me.
"Not any time soon."
"Why? You embarrassed by them?" Danny responds with a twinkle in eyes.
"Yep." Everyone chuckles slightly.
"Least she's honest." Hawkes adds.
"Let's get off that subject. Don, earlier you told Annabel you said you needed to tell her something, what was it?" Mac asks Flack. He gives him a look of 'really?' before looking at me.
"You know I'm stubborn, a pain the ass, and half of the time, I don't see what's going on. You see past that, and I can't help but love you for that."
"When I'm with you, I feel like I can be myself. Not the hard ass cop everyone thinks I am." He sends a look at Danny before continuing. "I know I've messed up pretty badly, yeah believe me when I say that now that I think about it, I probably shouldn't have punched your boss in the face. I would be willing to do that again, before that was for you. Anything stupid I have done, I would do it all again for you."
"Guess I probably should get to the point. I was scared today when you were stuck in that building. Wait, no scared doesn't even begin to describe what I was feeling, terrified out of my mind works better. I just know, I don't want to feel that way again, ever. Whether it's you're in danger, or your gone. So..." He gets up out of his chair, and turns my chair slightly so I'm facing him. Flack then get's down on one knee and pulls a ring out of his pocket. Holy shit, holy fucking shit. He is fucking proposing.
"Annabel Stevens, will you marry me?"
I know I left it at the worst possible ever but I promise the first chapter of the sequel will be out very soon! Anyways thanks to anyone to read, reviewed, followed, and favorited this and I hope you are excited for the sequel :)