"You took him up in a helicopter!" Lacey was livid. She was pacing back and forth in front of Danny. She glared back over her shoulder once in awhile causing Danny to loosen his collar.
"He loved it." Danny defended weakly. He knew when to be authoritative with Lacey and when not to be. Now was definitely a NOT BE.
"OH really? He's four, Danny. FOUR." Lacey held up her fingers with her thumb down.
Danny tried not to chuckle. But he had to quip at her gesture. "Yes, Dear. I know what four means. Why don't you come along?"
"Flying?" Lacey eyes widened. "With you and Thomas? In a helicopter?"
"MMmmhmmm." Danny smirked. He knew how to get Lacey Porter to cave. "Unless you're afraid."
"Never." Lacey straightened her shoulders pridefully. "When."
"Now." Danny walked up and picked up Thomas placing him on his hip. "You'll see."
It wasn't long before Danny convinced Lacey that he was very cautious when taking Thomas flying. After the flying demonstration, Lacey was easily convinced. Hearing Thomas squeal in delight was all it took. Lacey loved to hear her son's laughter.
"He's asleep." Lacey exhaled as she plopped in bed beside Danny. "It was a good idea to make your room into his. How is the set up at the condo?"
Danny pulled his hair from its binding allowing his mane to flow freely. "I told Bruce to move out. He was livid but I offered to pay his first and last month rent in a decent apartment. I think those grown men have been mooching off me long enough anyway."
"I think what we talked about is a good idea, Danny. Charlie brought up you living here. He is right. It will give you more free time. Besides, if any member of your company called you for help. You'd answer any way."
"True." Danny pulled Lacey on top of him. "Right now. What I have in mind will not need any one's assistance but yours."
"Really." Lacey shimmed up Danny's body. "And tell me, boss man, how can I help a big ,strong, man as yourself?"
"I need some calories sweated from my body, Ms. Porter." Danny bit his bottom lip. "Are you up for the challenge of saving me from an early coronary at worst? You'll be doing a service for all my employees by getting your man in a better mood before tomorrow's meeting."
"Well, I can't let down all those employees. Now can I?" Lacey licked down Danny's bare chest. "I mean …It is my duty to save you. You are needed to keep Desai Industries running."
"I need you." Danny pulled Lacey's hair seductively bringing her into a heated kiss. "Need you bad." He mumbled between kisses.
Danny absorbed Lacey's body into his soul. Times like these made Danny wonder how he ever left her in the first lace. His fingers and his lips enjoyed the taste of every inch of Lacey's skin. She was like a drug that he never wanted to give up addiction to. Lacey knew her and Danny had never been in love with any one else. There was something pure and beautiful about that fact. Even though they began as lovers at such a young age in life, it still was due to the emotion more than the physical. Mistakes were made and built upon. Life was being lived the best the two young lovers knew how to live. Sexual touching was how they managed to forget a harsh day, a fuss, or how they sometimes told without words how much they loved each other.
Sexual touching would also replace the hurt or inadequacy Danny felt when everything and everyone seemed to turn against him in his youth. Lacey was always there to pick up the pieces when something went against Danny in Green Grove. If he had rumors or was bullied, he'd come back home filled with remorse. Lacey would fix it by being there to listen and to love.
They had grown over the months Danny had been back. He had become stronger in all their lives. Especially their sons and hers.
"Love me forever." Lacey breathed breathlessly against Danny's ear as she twirled her tongue at his ear lobe.
"I will." Danny moaned before grasping Lacey's hips to roll her over. "If you do."
"Promise." Lacey giggled.
"Promise." Danny agreed then kissed Lacey long and passionate.
They made love as many times in the past. Experiencing the height of need and desire being met. Once again as it happened five years ago, both made love as the need for each other grew. Their passion had not dissipated as the years past without one another. Their passion had only grown and blossomed into something that could never be broken again. Danny and Lacey only knew one thing at the moment. They were making love because they were in love.
Danny had already reserved a room for tomorrow night at an exclusive hotel that cost him more than some of his employee's made in a week. He had ordered the best champagne as well as had lilies and lilacs spread all over the floor. He had ordered no less than fifty lit candles to be placed in the extravagant hotel room. Danny had even made sure that the cotton bed linens had certain thread count. However, as his body connected with Lacey's body, his thoughts were of this moment. As skin pressed to skin, as sounds echoed off the bedroom walls of their lovemaking, Danny could think of nothing else but making this woman his wife.
His thoughts were only on her perfection as her plump lips moaned his name in a husky lust laden voice. He wanted more and more of her yet there was nothing more to give. For Lacey had given Danny her all. She belonged to him with her heart, body, and soul. Danny belonged to her in the exact same way.
Sweat mingled on their bodies causing them to stick slightly together. Tongues dueled for dominance yet neither mouth giving over the victory to the other. It was a salacious battle that both became the victor. Lacey's finger's entangled in Danny's hair as she pulled slightly at his moistened tendrils. Her legs wrapped around Danny's hips allowing her to pull him closer with each movement of their bodies. Danny's large hands clasped around Lacey's buttocks as he too pulled her closer.
When the love making ceased due to reaching their pinnacle, Lacey thought it would be time to cuddle with the man she loved. But instead, Danny rolled out of the bed. He pulled on his sleep pants causing Lacey to pull on his oversized t-shirt. She watched him in puzzlement as he searched through his jacket that lay on a chair at the opposite side of the room. When he dropped to one knee beside the bed, Lacey's eyes had already began to moisten. She held back her excitement to allow Danny to talk.
"I..I.." Danny stammered out as he held the little velvet box in his hand. "I wanted this moment to be perfect. I reserved a hotel in a tropical paradise so to speak. I only have the ring here because I was going to have it cleaned tomorrow morning." Danny looked up at Lacey with a small smile. "But I realize one thing about you, Lacey Porter. I realize that you never did need extravagance. You needed truth. The truth is that our life has been filled with imperfections to the outside world looking in. But those imperfections are what make us perfect together. We have went through so much as a couple and individually that without a doubt, it made us stronger for one another. Even when the world looks at us now, they don't understand how we keep coming back to one another. They see our son and think of him as not perfect as well. But they are wrong, he is beyond perfect just like his mother. The ring won't weigh down your finger with a heavy diamond. It is a simple cut diamond." Danny pulled the ring from the box and held it out to her. "I bought it years ago when I wanted to propose the first time. I didn't want to buy a diamond that showed off to the world. I wanted the perfect diamond that showed off my love for you. Because the truth is, no diamond can outshine your beauty." Danny felt his throat tighten. A few tears caressed his cheek. "The world may look at us and think I've came back to save you and Thomas with my money. But that is so untrue. Because the fact is that it is you who is saving me. Lacey Porter, will you be my wife?"
Lacey didn't answer right away. Instead, she pushed of the bed and dropped to her knees in front of Danny. She embraced him as they both cried in harsh sobs. It was a relinquishing of guilt, anger, and hurt from the past. Danny didn't care that the tears made him seem less manly to most. To Lacey, Danny Desai was more of a man than he had ever been at that very moment.
Lacey pulled back as she lifted his face to look at hers. "Daniel Desai, I'd love nothing more than to be your wife."
Danny chuckled. His hands shook as he placed the ring on her finger. They held one another on the floor clinging to the hope of the future. Gone was the insecurities. Gone was the doubt of their love. Gone was worry of tomorrow. Today held enough life that tomorrow needed not to be thought about. Perhaps, they would've ended the proposal with another round of making love. But instead, a small raven haired boy came knocking on the bedroom door. His voice soft as he said the words that melted both Lacey's and Danny's heart.
"Mama. Mama." Thomas pressed his forehead to the door as he spoke his desire from the hallway. The words echoing against the walls. However, the words echoed even deeper into Lacey's and Danny's hearts. "Dada. Dada."