Matthew's POV
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Edwardian houses are big and cold I've decided. We harnessed the horses, Apollo and grazer, in their stables and I rather romantically carried Em up the grounds towards the house. Telling her that she’ll never have to walk again and that I’ll just carry her around everywhere. Now we’re in the big, cold house that I need to keep warm, I miss the open fires that I would tend in my house in California. Instead here I switch on the heating and the house does its thing. Only it takes a long time. I flick the switch on the boiler with her in my arms and she giggles. Before I set Emily down in the kitchen as she smiles up at me impressed by my ability to multitask.
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"What !?" I laugh and she smirks.
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"You're just pretty good at everything Matthew" she smiles and I laugh, undoing the riding jacket and smirking to myself all the while.
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"Am I good at this" I whisper placing my hands on the small of her back as her jacket falls to the floor.
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"Oh" she whispers her hands running through my curls.
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“That a yes?” I whisper removing her thermal top as she gasps looking down at me her eyes briefly settle on my chest before she removes my jacket.
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“Maybe” she teases as my lips find my way to her neck kissing her fervently, my hands behind her back undoing the bra that’s in my way. Instinctively I lift her up and place her on top of the stone worktop, as she looks down at me. Clothes strewn over the wooden floor. I pull off my jeans and she giggles at the pile of clothes on the floor.
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“Ahhh just maybe” I whisper kissing her chest softly a few times and showing her my best puppy dog eyes.
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“Lift your hips up a little Mrs Henderson” I smirk and her eyes go wide as my hands hook around the riding pants. She obeys me and I slide them off pulling them all the way down to her ankles and over her feet. Em is ticklish and she giggles as my hand trails up her legs and rests on her hips. Her pearly skin underneath my touch as she breathes in deep keeping my eye contact.
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“I’ve been waiting to take them off since you put them on” I whisper before lifting her up again, her legs wrapping around my waist.
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“You’re exceptional” she whispers in my ear as I pace through the kitchen, over the grande hall all the way to the staircase.
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“You’re not just good” she smirks and I laugh tickling her ribs as she giggles and I jog us up the stairs to the first floor. Kicking the wooden door open and laying her over the bed, onto the lilac sheets. Standing before her as she props herself up on her elbows and watches me with lustful eyes. Her man that can ride a horse, her man that just proposed down on his knees in her favourite viewing spot.
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“You’re exceptional too” I sigh lifting my shirt over my head as she watches me intently. Four times a week in the gym will give you results, it shows and I smile as she blushes.
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“Emily” I whisper slowly and she lays back as I take the lead on top. Watching her close her eyes as I clasp her hands above her head.
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“Matthew” she sighs as my mind wanders staring up at the ivory wallpapered walls, a large hung canvas adorning the wall above her bed frame. I’ve never asked her about it, a meadow with a horse as the centre point of the picture. In the watercolour the horse is running free.
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“Matthew” she sighs again as I look down at her smiling, moving into her as she lays back.
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“Yes my wife” I whisper as her eyes open and she pulls my body down to her own engulfing me in kisses.
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“You’re not serious, Em?” I smile watching her stroll over to the Porsche in stilettos. The gravel under her feet crunching as she sways her hips over to the shiny black car.
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“Throw me the keys” she says simply and I laugh, I am not allowing her to drive me to our engagement party. In those heels.
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“Not a chance darling” I laugh scooping my hair back and smirking in my suit and tie. It’s quick, a whirlwind almost but Emily tends to get carried away when she wants something enough. In truth she hadn’t asked me about marriage or hinted. However one evening as I was laying listening to the rain pattering down on the glass and watching the trees sway, her soft snores making me laugh ever so slightly. I realised I needed to be ahead of the game. Plus securing our relationship grounds me, of course unprotected sex can only lead to one thing and I’m sure that her father would not be happy with me impregnating her without us being engaged.
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“No” I whisper in her ear catching up to her and slipping one hand on her thigh. Sliding it up to her lower tummy as she scoffs knowing my game.
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“And what are you going to do about it” she laughs turning on me, a red dress on which scoops down her body. Red is strong on her, she looks somehow less plain. Red makes her hair glow and her porcelain skin shine even lighter.
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“No the question is what are you going to do about it” I smile looking into her eyes which are full of defiance and charm.
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“Oh really” she whispers kissing my neck as her hands lightly travel over my pockets, I allow her of course.
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“Please Matthew can I drive the fancy Porsche” she whispers reaching in my breast pocket and maintaining my eye contact.
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“That’s better darling” I whisper reaching my hand over her hips and pulling her close. Emily retrieves the key from my pocket smiling before kissing me slowly and opening up the doors.
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“Thankyou darling” she whispers climbing into the plush leather seats. It is my car, Emily has an Aston Martin and a Range Rover. However the Porsche was my purchase; biggest buy of my life. It’s my for all intents and purposes baby and I’m letting her climb into it in the highest heels I’ve ever seen. My palms are sweating as I climb in the passenger side.
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“See how you go to the end of the drive in the shoes” I whisper carefully as she sits in the drivers seat eyeing the mirrors and carefully checking the navigation.
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“It’s auto” I inform her as she tuts and I hide my grin, what can I say I’m American and we never bother with gears.
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“Well I would say this is a doddle” she laughs roaring the engine to life.
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“A doddle !? Is it?” I quip and she giggles turning the car around. So far so good, no harsh jerking movements. She’s not slamming on the breaks and my heart stops pounding. Emily takes us way past the gravel drive. Cruising way out of the country roads, some of them too narrow for my liking. I breathe in sharply as we face off with a pickup truck and a tractor on a country lane but she only smiles. Reversing delicately and waiting to let them go by before charging off again.
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“What !? You look like a man who’s never seen a girl drive in stilettos before” she quips and I roll my eyes. Before turning on the sound system and switching it up from my usual LBC to RadioX. Adverts clear and kings of Leon blurts out of the speakers as she sighs almost tutting at me.
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“If you’d call me now baby then I’d come a runnin’” I sing watching her as she laughs with a blush to her cheeks. The windows down in the Porsche and the chilly breeze rustling through them, we both enjoy the British chill.
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“You have a good voice” she begins and I smirk looking out into the fields either side almost telling her about Taylor and how she would sing, how she could play guitar and almost any instrument. Before I hold my tongue and stare at the wildflowers and the hedges either side of the road.
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“Your mother and your sister Matthew” she whispers and I almost jump. Recovering my expression as she smiles back at me. I had told Emily that I sent out invites for the party, to my friends that’s she’s never met and my family. Kimberley my sister is no longer in contact, that’s my fault entirely, we had argued over Henry’s second birthday. She had refused to see my perspective when I said I didn’t want to spend time with my ex and her family that I’m jealous of, her argument was that Henry would be aware of my absence and that I needed to be a better godparent. Besides she had continued, Emily would be welcome to come with us. Upon my saying no she told me that she no longer wanted anything to do with me or my silly new pretentious farce of a life.
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“Are they coming” she enquires and I sigh feigning disappointment.
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“My mom is in the Maldives with Steve and Kim has an important show” I tell her slowly, my mother and I haven’t spoken in years she barely knows me any longer and Kimberly despises me. Nobody is on holiday as far as I know, they just permanently checked out of my life.
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“What about your friends” she says slowly watching me with scrutiny. I can imagine Jay Gilbert Scott rocking up to my engagement party, his smile like a Cheshire Cat, the final nail in the coffin on mine and Taylor’s hopes of ever getting back together. The truth is I cannot have Taylor and Emily in the same room ever; Emily is astute and she would sniff me out almost instantly. A woman knows when you’ve loved another and frankly it would not be fair to put her through that. Taylor, my muse and the love of my life, renders me speechless whenever I see her and I cannot imagine that going down well with my fiancée.
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“Deer ahead” I smile looking out into the fog as she breaks slowly. The air is thick and I smile slightly at Emily, rubbing her thigh as she manoeuvres the car around the deer crossing the road. Dark black eyes and natural thick fur coats as they gallop over into the forest on the other side.
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“Paul will be there from the company” I say slowly as she picks up speed again.
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“He’s your boss” she laughs and I shake my head realising that life in your thirties is just a game of sending out invites and seeing who turns up.
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“What about your school friends, your uni mates that kind of thing” she presses.
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“I’m from Cali, most of them either moved to different places around the globe. England is quite far and so they cannot make it” I lie, Ross would and has taken flights for me before at the drop of a hat. Emily hmm’s and mmm’s over my excuses and I smile rubbing her leg as she looks keenly through the fog.
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“Most important to me is that you’re there” I whisper as she breathes in sharply feeling my hands on her thighs.
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“I love you” I say softly, bringing out the big guns and hoping I hit the spot.
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“I love you” she whispers looking down at me briefly before tuning into the private lane that leads up to the estate. Richard’s home, it’s twice the size of Emily’s. Gated and secure. Gravel driveway, that type of dig, statues and trimmed hedges. Emily locates her bay next to her father’s car on the driveway. Secures the car and smiles over at me.
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“You drove that Porsche like a pro” I compliment looking down at her stilettos.
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“Oh I believed in myself entirely” she smirks as I take her lips in my own. By some weird turn of fate I’ve become the clingy one in our relationship. I have everything to lose; her companionship and her adoration. She smiles blushing when I pull away.
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“It’s one of the things I love about you” I tell her as she giggles.
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“What that I can drive your Porsche better than you do” she quips as I laugh out loud tickling her. She slaps me playfully and I tell her she’s cheeky.
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“I’m joking Mr Henderson you are the better driver” she smiles buttering me up as I take the cases out of the trunk. We’re staying the night so that both of us can enjoy our evening, besides as I look up at the fifteen bedroom property I decide there’s room.
