CHAPTER 8

Jack kept looking seriously, deep into Bill's eyes and waiting for his answer.

Bill, in turn, after the astonishment of Jack's question had passed, began to think about everything in the law as the answer to the question would be.

- Jack, I could even be wrong, but after a marriage she would be her husband's responsibility, when she assumes her husband's name, she chooses the man as her family. In case she couldn't accept financial help from her father, only if he wants to give it to her, but since Elizabeth came here, she never received anything from her family, I was already informed of that, when she appointed me as her guardian, she left me very honored. There's Jack the two solutions...

- I know Bill, I'm going to marry the woman I love and I'm going to protect her. That's what I want most in life.

- Right Jack. And the best, I as her guardian can sign too, I have the same right as her father, to tell you the truth I have more rights in law than her father, and I don't think William Thatcher remembers that for her protection here I I became your guardian.

- But who would do the wedding, because you as guardian could not, correct?

- Entering the room, Abigail arrived hand in hand with Elizabeth. Jack had always thought she was pretty, but now that he saw that big smile and those beautiful blue eyes, he couldn't help but love that woman more. His bride and soon to be his wife. His heart felt like a battery, he even ran out of air, he couldn't hold his feet anymore, when he saw a smiling Jack was already coming to Elizabeth's side and already hugging her tightly. Jack didn't care about Bill and Abigail there in the room, seeing this exchange of affection between them, because those two wanted his happiness. Elizabeth stood on her toes and placed a light kiss on Jack's cheek, her gaze was filled with such pure love that it only reinforced Jack's love for her. How could a man love a woman as intensely as he did. He always wanted someone special, but he never imagined finding true love.

- Elizabeth, will you marry me?

- Jack... it's what I want most in this life. But I can't let you do that, just to save me. And looking down a small tear escaped Elizabeth's eyes.

Jack held her face with both hands, kissed her face, retracing the path of that lonely tear, she was his beloved, his bride and future wife, it's not possible that she didn't notice the love I have for her.

- Elizabeth, my bride, my future wife, you were the only and will be the last woman I will love in this life. I am marrying you, because I can't lose you, I don't know how to live without you, I love you more that everything in this life. Even if that telegram hadn't arrived, I wanted a very short engagement because... And he spoke in a whisper in her ears so that only she could hear:

- I can't stand being away from you anymore. I want you sleeping in my arms every night, I want to feel your lips every morning when I wake up... Do you understand me?

Elizabeth, who only now realized that she was holding her breath, was breathing very slowly and raising her eyes, she looked deep into Jack's eyes where she was lost in that look of love for a few minutes and even with her face all flushed with red she shook her head stating, he bit his lower lip, making Jack sigh with passion and spoke looking at them without blinking:

- My greatest desire is to sleep in your arms, my love, my Jack.

Words were no longer necessary there, it was as if there were only the two of them in that room, they completely forgot about their friends and their problems and fell into each other's arms, in a hug that made both of them be transported to another world.

Abigail and Bill looked at each other and smiled, they knew that the two young people were in love, but now they witnessed it was an intense love, a true love, where they spoke with their eyes without any words, it was a conversation between them, in a single world from them. Abigail spoke softly:

- We have a wedding to arrange and quickly... And the two smiled.

Meanwhile inside the hotel in Hope Valle, at that exact moment, packing his bags and smiling victoriously, was Charles Kensington III, he was already making his plans for his honeymoon, after that Elizabeth would be his and he would never think of another man, after all she I would know in his arms what a real man was. I even imagined the jewelry I was going to buy her, even though she denied it, when I looked at the jewelry for her, I would be impressed with the richness of the pieces, there was no woman in the world who would not fall at her feet with these jewelry as a gift. He already imagined on his honeymoon, her in his bed, without clothes and only the jewels adorning him, two beauties together in his bed. Charles was in love with Elizabeth all his life and was also fascinated and hallucinated by jewels. Charles also received a telegram from William Thatcher, so he should leave now for the city of Brukman,, a city that was four hours away from Hope Valle, he still couldn't take Elizabeth, he would go there to arrange for the two train tickets in a private car, since she would be his wife in a few days, he needed to start sharing the same room with him, okay that in the wagon there were two rooms but staying together for days, they could form a bond beyond which, there would be no turning back, as her reputation could be at risk, so neither she nor her family could go back. There was also another thing, she alone with him in a wagon, would give him the chance to use his masculine skills and maybe show her that he could be a good boyfriend and husband, maybe tempting her a little with his charm and his kisses, they could start their honeymoon early right there in that carriage. He had to resolve everything quickly in this city, so go back and they would come down in the next stage, five days maximum and he would be back. And already leaving the room paid, he left all smiling towards his trip.