A/N: I am so glad you all loved the sneak peek! I hope you enjoy this update as well! I hope to get the next chapter out to you all tomorrow! This one is almost complete! I've loved writing it and am very excited about the next story as well! Blitz and I have a list of new stories for you all, and are very excited to get them out to you! Thank you again for the reviews and support. You all keep me going!
Two months earlier...
Alex sat back in her chair, opposite her girlfriend, at their favorite restaurant on Sullivan's Island, Poe's Tavern. She couldn't help but smile as her girlfriend furiously tapped away at her iPhone screen. Casey had again been hit with inspiration on their drive over and had been typing ever since.
Casey loved to write and when an idea struck, it had to be captured. Alex hadn't yet been able to read the redheads novel, since she was keeping it closely guarded, but according to Casey, she had been able to help with certain plot points. That fact alone made her happy, she would do anything to help Casey.
As the sun started to set, it lit up the golden reds in Casey's hair, making Alex swoon all over again. Every day seemed to highlight another aspect of Casey, that only helped to make the blonde fall even more in love with her. Easily, the last six months had been the best of her life.
They'd spent the summer sailing and walking the beach, watched fireworks downtown on the Fourth of July from the aquarium, walked Market Street on lazy Sunday afternoons, and fallen in love even more with each and every passing minute. Alex knew Casey was the one for her, she always had, and what's more, she knew she wanted to spend her life with her. She just had to make it right with Elle first.
"I'm finished!" Casey exclaimed suddenly pulling Alex from her thoughts.
"Yeah? That's great baby. Dinner should be here any minute." Alex beamed taking a long sip of beer.
"Wait, what? I didn't order," the redhead questioned as she suddenly noticed the beer in front of her as well.
"Sweetheart, you've been so in your head and writing that I pretty much carried you from the car and to the restaurant." Alex laughed, "So, naturally I took to ordering your standard 'Tell Tale Heart,' and Mich Ultra."
"Best girlfriend ever!" She declared with a goofy pose. "Okay, well let me close out...ah! No, no, no, fuck!"
Alex watched her girlfriend's panic, over the top of her black framed glasses, "Family place, Case, what's the issue."
"I deleted it! I just finished that chapter and I deleted it by accident!" She panicked.
"I am sure you didn't. It's probably on the cloud."
"What cloud? Where is this elusive cloud? I don't know how to work the cloud, nothing goes to the stupid cloud!"
Biting her lip not to laugh, Alex finally held out a hand, "Give me your phone baby, let me work my magic."
Letting out a deep sigh, she dejectedly passed her the phone. Alex looked over the 'notes' app and with a few clicks pulled the document from the trash and back up on the device. "Done!"
"What? How?" Casey blurted snatching the phone back and quickly checking with a huge smile on her face. "Oh my god! I love you, thank you, baby! I seriously could marry you I'm so excited!"
Alex couldn't say a word. The mere mention of marriage from her girlfriend had her heart beating a million miles per hour. "Anything for you, Casey."
As their food was delivered, and they began to enjoy, conversation surrounded everything from politics, to work, to Thanksgiving with Casey's family, however, despite the subject, Alex couldn't help but imagine asking Casey to marry her. She had always loved the redhead, it had always been her, and it always would be. The best part was Casey felt the same for Alex, and even though they'd been with other people before actually being with each other, they both agreed they were meant to be.
"What is it?" Casey mused.
Alex smiled and ducked her head before looking back up into Casey's magical green eyes, "I love you. Will you go for a walk with me out on the beach?"
"Let's see...a walk on the beach, with my gorgeous girlfriend, at sundown...yes!" She laughed before taking another long sip of her beer.
Alex beamed, "Okay, let's pay and go!"
As they payed and made their way out to the beach, Alex entwined her fingers with Casey's. Walking in relative silence up the beach towards the lighthouse, the couple relished just being together. Finding the perfect spot to sit, Alex sat then guided Casey to sit between her legs and lay back into her.
Pressing her head into Casey's neck, Alex took a deep breath enjoying the smell of Casey's vanilla musk scented perfume. "I love you, Casey, more than anything in this world."
"I love you too," the redhead said as she turned her head to place a kiss on the blonde's lips.
Breaking apart, Alex pressed their foreheads together, "You are everything to me, Casey. You are like that lighthouse down there, always guiding me home, leading me to safety when I'm lost, keeping me in line. I love you more than anything. I promise to always make you happy, make you feel loved, and to support you and keep you safe."
As she finished, she kissed the teary eyed redhead. Pulling back just enough to speak, Casey softly said, "I love you, I love you more than anything too. Marry me, Alexandra."
Alex pushed back a little more to look Casey in the eyes. "Casey, are you..."
"Serious?" She grinned, "Absolutely. I've never been more serious about anything in my life. Please marry me, spend your life with me, have a family with me, wake up every morning for the rest of my life with me and always kiss me goodnight. I love you, Alexandra Cabot, and you love me. Marry me."
Alex couldn't help but tremble slightly at Casey's words. She was speechless. She didn't expect her to propose. "Y-yes, yes I will marry you!" She finally managed to say excitedly.
Casey didn't hesitate to fall back into the blonde's arms kissing her over and over before rolling onto her back and yelling, "We are getting married!" Rolling back on her side, she smiled at her now fiancé, "I can't wait to be your wife."
"I can't either." Alex whispered kissing her fiancé again softly, before whispering against her lips, "Let's go home."
"Okay, but first, I want you to have this," Casey said her eyes full of tears as she removed her topaz ring and slipped it onto Alex's ring finger, "I know it isn't a diamond, but it's my birthstone and my parents gave me this ring years ago. It means a lot to me and I want you to have it..."
Tilting the redheads chin up so she could look in her eyes, "Casey, it's perfect. Thank you. I love you."
"I love you too."
On their way home, they decided they would take the sailboat out and anchor off shore. That way they could watch the sunrise in the morning in each other's arms. Plus, it seemed like the perfect place to spend their engagement night, seeing as it was the place they both first confessed their love for each other.
Once home, they both packed a small bag, dropped Max off with a very happy and congratulatory Liv and Amanda, and boarded the boat. Casey settled below deck to prepare the cabin for them, while Alex took them off shore before anchoring. Feeling secure in her choice of spot, Alex smiled at the night sky. The stars covered the dark expanse like a billion diamonds, as the warm night air blew over her skin.
"You coming?" Casey's voice broke the silence.
Alex smiled, "Come here." The redhead didn't argue, she walked to her, and happily let Alex take her in her arms. "I love you."
Kissing the blonde, she quickly got lost in the wonders that were, this magical woman. Parting for air, Casey whispered, "I love you too," before recapturing her lips.
Clothes slowly began to find their way to the deck, as Alex's lips began to travel down Casey's throat, eventually taking a hard nipple into her mouth. As the blonde's hot tongue flicked fast over it, Casey's breathy moans and gasps filled the night air. When she began to place kisses across her chest to the other, the redhead couldn't help but let Alex back her against a bench. Feeling the blonde's soft lips against her other nipple, she let out a soft whisper, "More..."
Grinning against her fiancés alabaster skin, she began kissing her way down between her legs, gasping as her fingers beat her mouth to Casey's soaked center. "God, Casey."
"Please, Alex," the redhead whimpered only to cry out as the blonde's warm tongue traveled the length of her wetness.
Moaning at the taste, Alex dipped her tongue inside loving how Casey instantly tangled her hands into her blonde hair and rocked her hips slightly in anticipation of the mounting pleasure that would soon over take her. After a few more tantalizing minutes, Casey was nothing more than a slur of moans and pants. Not wanting to draw it out too long for the redhead, Alex pulled back and slowly sank two fingers into her slick wet heat earning an appreciative, strangled, "Y-yes, yes," from the her.
Letting her fingers slowly find that spot that made the redheads hips buck, Alex moved her tongue artfully over Casey's swollen clit, causing the redhead to tighten her grip on the blonde's hair. Feeling Casey shake beneath her, as her fingers slowly moved faster and faster, Alex knew she was close and wasted no time sucking her clit into her mouth. It took only mere moments for the redhead to start crying out in pleasure, thrusting her fingers faster as her mouth worked its magic, Alex sent Casey crashing over the edge.
Helping the redhead come down from her high, Alex pulled her into her arms, and laid back on the deck, kissing her softly. "You were amazing," she whispered against the redhead's lips.
"That was you, babe," Casey sighed as her hands traveled across the blonde's breasts, mindlessly playing with her nipples until the blonde gasped slightly in pleasure, pulling her back to the present. With a coy smile, she kissed her lover before whispering against her lips, "How?"
"In your arms," Alex whispered, gasping as one of Casey's arms snaked behind her back pulling her chest flush against hers, and the one on her breast slowly traveled down between her legs.
As Casey's fingers met Alex's soaked throbbing clit, she gasped, "God, baby, you are so wet."
Feeling the redheads fingers roll over her most sensitive spot, Alex panted, "You make me this way."
Kissing slowly down the blonde's neck and back up again, Casey teased her clit over and over, until she was eagerly rolling her hips against her fingers and begging in breathless pants for more. Moving to her soaked opening, Casey easily slid two fingers in deep, finding that spot and slowly starting to work it faster and faster. Alex met her thrust for thrust, and was soon moaning and panting into her neck. Fixing her thumb over the blonde's clit again as she worked her over, Alex began to cry out as pleasure coursed thickly through her veins. It only took a few more thrusts to have the blonde shaking in her arms as she came hard around her fingers.
Holding Alex in her arms as she came down from her high, Casey whispered over and over how much she loved her. Kissing her gently, they both dozed off in the moonlight, only to wake an hour later to move below deck to continue their love making, falling asleep again only to wake an hour before dawn to make love again.
As dawn neared, they made coffee and dressed comfortably to go above deck. Sitting on the bench in each other's arms, sipping coffee they watched as the morning sun started to crest the horizon. Alex couldn't imagine a more beautiful moment.
Reaching into her sweater pocket, she freed the ring her father had given her on her sixteenth birthday. It was a simple diamond ring, in an antique setting with two sapphires set on either side of the diamond. It was beautiful and eloquent, but most importantly it had been her father's mother's engagement ring and he felt Alex deserved to have it.
"Casey, I love you more than anything," she began in a soft tone, causing the redhead to turn and look into her deep blue eyes, "I have loved you since we were young teens and I will love you through eternity. You are the person who picks me up when I fall down, and encourages me when I feel weak. You are my home, Casey. Home is wherever you are, because you hold my heart, you always will, since it was always yours to have."
As she finished she slipped the ring onto Casey's ring finger, before looking into the redheads sparkling emerald eyes, "So, yes I will marry you..."