Chapter 19

I hope everyone's had an incredible Christmas this year! So here's a delayed Christmas day update, I'll continue again tomorrow! thank you for reading and I hope you enjoy this :)

Jacob woke up as it turned 7 o'clock. He knew Connie had never been a morning person but surely she'd be different on Christmas day. Rolling over to face her he moved closer to her and rested his lips against the skin of her neck.

She could feel the warmth of his breath against her neck and chest as she slowly woke up. Jacob moved his lips along her shoulder before she turned over and lay on her back looking up across at him.

"Happy Christmas baby…" she smiled as he leant closer and gently kissed her. She took him by surprise when she kissed him back deepening the kiss. "Maybe I should wake you up more often" he winked as he sat back from her.

Connie watched as Jacob wandered into the bathroom. Smiling to herself she checked the time before rolling her eyes and dropping her head back. "You know you're worse than Grace… She at least waited until 8 o'clock before waking me up with presents-" "So we have an hour to waste then don't we?"

She raised a perfectly arched eyebrow, a site that Jacob had grown fond of. As he sat back on the bed beside her he crawled across leaning above her legs and meeting her half way. Connie broke away from him smiling. "If we're giving gifts in an hour, you'll have to find another way to pass the time…" She watched as Jacob sighed and laid back down.

He was still lying on top of her legs as she laughed at his reaction. Connie watched as he lifted his head to look up at her. "Just so you know, I'm cooking today. Don't think that because you're the boss at work that you are here too." She had a shocked expression on her face as he pushed up from the bed and began to leave the room.

Downstairs Jacob began sorting a few things out for lunch as he didn't want to be doing it when other people were here. He finished up before going into the living room and turning on the lights of the Christmas tree. The blue and white lights twinkled as he looked back to the table which he'd laid out last night.

Everything was prepared and ready so he decided to wander back upstairs again. He dropped down on the bed as Connie walked out of the bathroom smiling. "Tired already?" He glanced sideways at her with a smirk on his face. "Course not sweet cheeks…"

She sat on the bed picking something up from the draw of the bedside cabinet beside her. Handing it over she watched as Jacob smiled taking the box from her. It had been wrapped carefully and was tied together by some silver ribbon in a bow.

Connie didn't say anything as he looked down at the present and took the paper from it. He took the lid off the box and picked up the empty key ring with a confused expression. "I know you're always moaning about losing your locker key so I thought you could probably do with one…" Jacob nodded as he looked back at it again noticing what the little picture was on it.

"And I thought you might need it to put this on." She looked across at him as she held out a small silver key. Jacob took it from her before looking back to her again. "Are you being serious?" He ran his finger across the engraved house on the small silver tag. "You're giving me a key to your house-" "Our house. If you'll move in with me."

Jacob's face seemed to light up as she said that. He dropped the things to his lap as he leant across and pulled Connie into him as he kissed her. She smiled against his lips as she tried speaking. "I guess that's a yes-" "I don't think it requires an answer, anyone who says no would be stupid."

"Merry Christmas Jacob, and as for your boss comment earlier… I'm still in charge of this house." She squinted her eyes becoming serious as she got up from the bed and went into the bathroom beginning to get herself changed.

Connie changed into a tight black dress with silver thread sewn through it which shimmered in the light. She put on some make up before brushing her hair and letting it fall straight down her back. She placed the bracelet on her wrist and slipped her heels on as Jacob walked in the room. "Wow Connie-" "Too much?" He shook his head as he took her in his arms and smiled. "You're the most beautiful thing I've seen in all my life baby." Connie found herself leaning into him as he closed his arms around her back and placed a kiss on the top of her head.

The morning went by slowly as they relaxed on the sofa together. Jacob had his arm around Connie's shoulder holding her while thinking about the small jewellery box sitting in his bag upstairs. Everything he thought about seemed to come back to that one question until they were both bought out of their thoughts by someone knocking at the front door.

"Are you expecting someone?" Connie looked up at him as he sat himself up and smiled at her. "Merry Christmas baby…" She looked at him dubiously before standing up and walking for the front door. Jacob seemed to hold his breath as he heard her pull the front door open and greet who had just arrived.