Myths & Rejections

Chapter 8 - Moving On

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Harper

"Baby, are you out here?" Harper called, hopping down the stairs to the deck at the spring. "Here fishy, fishy, fishy."

"Here fishy, fishy?" Matt asked laughing as he broke the surface near the edge of the platform.

"It worked, didn't it?" Harper laughed as she stripped out of her clothes on the platform. "Fishy fishy, has a better ring to it than siren siren."

Harper jumped into the water and came up into his arms smiling.

"You can call me fishy fishy if you really want to." Matt said smiling down at her, "when you smile like that, you can call me anything you want, beautiful girl."

"I'll always smile at you, beautiful boy." Harper kissed him slowly. "Come on, let's go inside, I brought some dinner, cheesecake and wine."

"You had me at cheesecake." Matt laughed.

"I know, that's why I brought it." Harper laughed.

They had finished their cheesecake and were relaxing on the patio looking up at the stars and Matt suddenly got up and moved to sit on the end of Harper's lounge chair.

"Let's go walk on the beach, I'm in the mood for some waves." Matt said, holding out his hand.

"Always in the mood for a midnight walk on the beach." Harper smiled, "especially when it's a full moon and a clear sky with a billion stars overhead."

"Harper, you know, I'm not the most romantic guy in the world, and I tried to think of this super ooey gooey way to do this, but I just couldn't come up with anything good. So I'm just going with simple and hopefully, at least a little romantic." Matt smiled at Harper's confused look and gave her a soft kiss before dropping to one knee. "I know I'm not your goddess fated wolf mate, but I love you more than anything in this world. Will you marry me?"

Matt pulled a small box out of his pocket and opened it to reveal a beautiful princess cut diamond that sparkled brilliantly in the moonlight.

Tears immediately flowed from Harper's eyes, her chest felt like it would explode, she couldn't even draw a breath for a second before she dropped to her knees in front of him.

"YES." Harper threw her arms around his neck. "Yes, Mattie, I will joyfully marry you. I love you more than anything too."

Matt let out a whoosh of a breath and hugged her so tight she could barely breathe.

"Thank goddess." Matt said, tears in his own eyes. "I've never been so scared in all my life."

"There's one thing." Harper said pulling back a little, causing him to immediately tense. "I don't know if we'll ever be able to have kids. Though it is technically possible for wolves to mate and have children with people who are not their mates, and sometimes humans, it is very difficult and rare for it to happen. Most wolves assume if they don't end up with their mates, they will have no children. I have no idea if a siren and a wolf would be able to."

"That's ok, I thought about that." Matt said. "I hope we can have kids of our own, but there are kids out there who have no parents and need homes, if we can't have our own, we can at least adopt. If you're ok with that."

Again tears welled in Harper's eyes.

"I'm totally ok with that. As long as we're together." Harper said. "I know what it's like to lose your parents, I'd love to be able to give a happy home to an orphan child."