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Part 7

Of course, she said yes. She didn't even have to think about. Ok, it was risky but even normal life could be that. It was just a different kind now. Once they were straightened out and fully clothed again, they made their way down to the ocean where they'd cleaned themselves up. It took a little longer than it should have, because all Anna had to do was wash the blood off her face, while Dwayne had a little more to get rid of. She'd sat herself on the sand and watched him. Watched as splashed the water on his face and ran it through his hair with his fingers. As he scooped handfuls of salt water onto his chest so the droplets ran down over his perfect skin and back into the ocean. It was pornography, and Anna was powerless to stop her jaw from hitting the floor. So, for the second time that night, Dwayne caught her eye, saw the way she looked at him and suddenly his body was screaming to him that it was ready to go all over again. He picked her up and took her behind some nearby rocks, where she made him take her from behind in the sand.

"I think we need to start thinking pure thoughts or you're not gonna make it back before sunrise." Anna said, making him laugh.

"Impossible. I told you. I can't control myself around you." He said, taking a firm grip if her hips and pulling her hard against him. He leaned into kiss her and she gratefully accepted, until it soon began to get heavy again and Anna smiled into the kiss, begrudgingly pulling away. "Down boy." She said, taking him by the hand and leading him back towards the bike, but not before he gave her butt a good hard smack, causing her to girly squeal out loud, much to his amusement.

…

"So, I was thinking." Anna began as Dwayne helped her off the bike. "When you're sleeping later, I could go back to the boardwalk I'm gonna need a dress." And immediately she saw his body language change. "What?"

"Baby, I don't want you going there alone."

"I'll be ok. It'll be the middle of the day. And, you know, the scary people don't come out until night. Otherwise we would never have met." She said, unable to keep the smile off her face.

"Ha. Ha." He shot back, also trying to keep a straight face but failing miserably. "But my point exactly. After what happened tonight if anything happened while the sun was up I wouldn't be able to get to you and I'm not willing to risk it. Why don't you wait and I'll take you?"

"No! You can't be there!"

"Why not?"

"You can't see the dress before the wedding!"

"Seriously? We're doing that?"

"Yes, we're doing that." She said and he could see her mind was fully made up.

"Ok, so what if we compromise?"

"Go on." She said folding her arms.

"You hang around til nightfall and I'll get Paul and Marko to go with you?" he said and Anna thought about it for a second.

"Ok deal." She said, small smile.

"Though I don't know who's gonna be keeping an eye on who when it comes to idiot one and two." he said, wrapping an arm around her shoulder as they headed towards the cave.

"Promise I'll keep their sugar intake to a minimum."

…

"Say what now?" Paul said, closer to being speechless than he'd ever been in his life.

"Yeah man, you feeling ok?" Marko followed up, equally as bewildered.

"What? She wants to get a dress and she doesn't want me to go with her. She wants it all to be traditional. And she's stubborn."

"Yeah it's a real mystery why you two get on huh?" David said and Dwayne just gave his brother a look, it's not like he had anything to fire back with. He was fully aware that he himself could be the most stubborn asshole ever to walk the earth. But still!

"Well count me in man!" Paul said, jumping up from the couch "Hey, she gonna be looking for anything else? Like for the wedding night? Cus I'm nothing if not helpful." He said, beaming from ear to ear.

"You know, you're gonna have a hard time riding your bike with 2 broken arms." Dwayne said, just as Anna walked into the cave from where she'd been getting herself ready in their room.

"Perfect timing. The kids are misbehaving, now you can take care of it." David said, continuing to work on his bike in the corner. Anna took one look at Paul and knew exactly what was going on. Obviously, he had been throwing himself fully into his favourite pass time of pissing Dwayne off.

"Morning…or no…ok sorry, I'm still getting my head around this time thing." She said, and when Dwayne turned and saw her, his aggravation quickly subsided. He went to her and wrapped his arms around her waist, pulling her to him.

"Hey."

"Hey." She answered, pushing herself onto her tip toes to kiss him "You sleep ok?"

"Yeah. I had this dream though." He said, gripping her a little tighter.

"Oh?"

"Yeah, I was in bed and I opened my eyes and there was this hot girl riding me. Oh no shit that really happened." He said, and Anna gave me a soft punch in the arm.

"Shhh!" she said and he chuckled as her cheeks flushed a deep shade of pink.

"Hey Chica!" Paul said, suddenly coming up behind her and throwing his around her shoulders and resting his chin on the top of her head. "Sorry man, time to go" he said, turning his attention to Dwayne "You're already pushing it seeing the bride this close to the wedding!" To which Dwayne rolled his eyes and audibly sighed.

"You sure you don't want me to come?" he said, making her giggle.

"No, we'll be fine, promise, don't worry."

"Never know girl, today might be the day you come to your senses and marry me instead." Paul said, quickly pulling Anna away from Dwayne and towards the exit of the cave. Anna mouthed "I love you." To Dwayne as she was ushered out, trying to keep him calm and prevent there being a sudden Paul shaped hole in the wall, but he winked and gave her that crooked smile that always drove her crazy.

As Paul went to grab his jacket, Marko put his hand in the small her back while they walked up the steps. "Probably be safer if you ride with me." He said.

"I think you might be right." Anna laughed.

….

"But Why can't we go in with her!" Paul whined.

"Because! It looks weird, us following a girl around a woman's clothing store!" Marko tried to reason.

"How's it weird? Dwayne told us to watch her!"

"Oh, and you've been doing that alright."

"Meaning?"

"Meaning you've not taken your eyes off her ass all night." And immediately that Paul grin was back.

"Man, is it wrong that I wanna suck honey off her nipples?"

"Yeah it is wrong pervert!" Paul almost lost his balance as the Dwayne's voice crashed through his mind.

"Dude! Would you stop doing that! Fucking creeping up on me! And you shut up!" Paul snapped at Marko who had now dissolved into laughter.

"Don't worry kid, keep practising and one day you'll be…well you might, be as good as me." Dwayne said, sounding undeniably pleased with himself.

"Did you just try to mentally flip him off?" Marko said, trying to pull himself together, which wasn't easy when confronted with Paul's grumpy kid face.

"Where is she?"

"She's ok she's in the store." Marko answered.

"Alright, well you guys need to be back soon. Everything's set up." Dwayne said and Marko looked over his shoulder and through the window of the store to see Anna at the counter.

"Looks like she's done. We'll head back now."

"Cool. And Marko?"

"Yeah?"

"She rides with you on the way home." Then Dwayne broke the link because it was his turn to lose it. He didn't need to see it, he could clearly imagine Paul's pissy expression.

….

When Anna entered the main room of the cave, David was the only one there.

"Where is everyone?"

"They went ahead. I asked Dwayne…I'd like to drive you up there, if you're good with it." He said. Yeah, she hadn't known David that long, but she was pretty certain this side of him didn't exist anymore or he'd kept it well hidden, until now anyway.

"I'd like that." She said with a smile and he simply nodded.

"So, what do you think?" she said, looking down at herself. She hadn't gone traditional, because let's face it, this wasn't exactly a traditional marriage. She'd picked a black, vintage 40's style dress that fitted perfectly where it touched and flared out a little at her knee. She let her hair fall naturally around her shoulders in soft waves and had coloured her lips the most delicious shade of red.

"I think, Dwayne must have done something good once." David said and Anna had to smile.

"Thanks." She said, and with that he lifted his arm for her to take.

"So where are we going exactly? I mean, correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm guessing church isn't an option?" and David laughed louder than Anna even realised he was capable of.

…..

The boys watched as David brought his bike to a stop a few hundred feet away from them. Anna had sat in front of him and side saddle so she could at least show up to her own wedding attempting to look lady like.

"Wow." Marko said louder than he'd intended to once David had helped her off the bike and he saw her in all her glory.

"Man, did I ever tell you how lucky you are asshole?" Paul managed to say, while at the same time, trying to keep his tongue in his mouth.

"No need. I know." Dwayne said as he went to her. He took her face in his hands then suddenly his lips were on hers. Even though she'd only been away from him for a short time, he was making her realise how much she missed him. And this.

"Aren't we supposed to do that at the end?" Anna giggled against his lips and he smiled and kissed the tip of her nose.

"God, you look beautiful." He said.

"You don't look so bad yourself." she said, knowing full well she was looking at him with full on googly eyes. He wore black jeans and a long sleeve black button down shirt with just enough buttons left undone to raise her heartbeat. He was sin and he was all hers. Yeah, for once in her life, she felt like she'd won.

That's when Anna caught sight of David talking to someone she didn't recognise. "Who's that?" she asked, and Dwayne looked over his shoulder.

"C'mon." he said, softly, before taking her hand and leading her over.

From her 5"4 off the ground, Anna had to crane her neck a little to look up at the stranger in front of her.

"Angel, this is Max." Dwayne said, almost against her ear and Anna's breath caught audibly in her throat. Straight away, she felt Dwayne's grip on her waist get tighter in a wordless "It's ok." Max obviously noticed the sudden change in her expression too, as his face quickly and surprisingly to her, softened.

"It's alright my dear. There's no need to be frightened." He said, reaching out his hand for her to take, which she did. If a little warily "It's wonderful to meet you at last. You look just as I thought you would." Anna swallowed dryly and tried to force a smile onto her face, even though her head was buzzing. From the way Dwayne had explained it, and even though he clearly hated it, the rule was that they were to ask Max's permission to even be together and as far as she knew, they had done none of those things and here he was, every ince the grooms over emotional father.

"Hello." She said, her voice cracking as she spoke.

"He wants to marry us." Dwayne said and Anna's head snapped around to look at him.

"Oh…ok…I'm sorry…it's just…I wasn't expecting…"

"I know Anna. This all must be a bit of a shock but, it's not every day one of my boys gets married. Plus, I felt like I had to do something for the lady who tamed this one." Max said, signalling towards Dwayne with his eyes, who in turn rolled his towards heaven. Of all the things Anna made him feel, tame wasn't one of them.

"You ready to do this baby?" Dwayne asked and did a small sigh of relief when she turned to him, gave him one of her pettiest smiles and simply said,

"I'm ready." Because he wouldn't have blamed her for wanting to kick his ass for 'surprising' her with all this. Not that he had much say in it. Once Max found out, he'd consented to the wedding only if he could officiate, and at this point, and of course within reason, Dwayne was ready to agree to anything so long as it resulted in Anna being his wife.

….

Finally, Dwayne and Anna had followed Max closer to the edge of the cliff top so they were overlooking the ocean. David followed behind, then went to stand next to Marko and Paul who were already there.

"Well, don't you two just look handsome." Anna said as she past them and in turn they both dropped their gaze to the ground and smiled like 2 shy teenaged boys.

She tried to keep her mind on what Max was saying as they stood in front of him, but the way Dwayne looked at her through the whole ceremony, it was hard to concentrate. His eyes bore into her so hard, she couldn't even be sure she saw him blink. Eventually, however, it was time for the part she had been dreading since Dwayne had told her about it and the for a minute at least, the spell was broken.

"Anna, your hand." Max smiled and she did her best to put on a brave face.

"We'll do it together." Dwayne said as he held his hand up next to hers. That's when David handed Max the dagger. Thankfully he didn't drag it out. He made a cut just deep enough to bleed out on each of their palms.

"Take her hand, Dwayne." Max said and he did as he was asked, quickly pressing their palms together before linking their fingers tightly. That's when Max told them they were bound. They were married.

….

"My wedding gift is you riding with me to Max's. Can't put a price on that babe" Paul announced throwing his arm around Anna's neck and she gave Dwayne a look then, as if to say

"What do you think?" her new husband signed but for once relented.

"Fine! But don't think I won't be watching. I'm not above dangling your ass out the top window by your ankles. Even today."

"Yeah! Yeah!" Paul said, steering Anna towards his bike. All he'd heard was 'Yes'

"I'll meet you all back at the house. I have to pick up a guest first." Max said, suddenly appearing behind Dwayne.

"Ok. Cool." He said, climbing onto his own bike.

"Tonight Dwayne. Her process must begin tonight. You know that?"

"I know."

"I don't trust Yuri. She needs to be strong." Max said and the look that his son gave him softened him a little. "But for now. We celebrate. Oh and, congratulations son." Max said, feeling genuinely proud.