The Proposal

Chapter Seventeen: Together at Last

Waking up the next morning, Cristiano couldn’t help but smile as he looked at Sophia; the two lay spooned together after their activities from the night before.

Linking his hand with Sophia’s, Cristiano pressed his lips to her bare shoulder; he watched as she slowly opened her eyes before he kissed her lips, he couldn’t believe that they had finally come together like this.

“Bom dia,” he whispered as he kissed her again, he was thrilled in the change that they had gone through last night; he had already ended things with Anastasia and now he was prepared to focus completely on the blonde, she meant everything to him now.

“Buenos días,” Sophia replied as Cristiano held her close, the two slowly started to kiss again; she was amazed at how last night had gone especially since she hadn’t been expecting it.

Cristiano carefully move to hover over the blonde, he paused for a moment as he deepened the kiss until Sophia pulled away from him; the footballer frowned as she stopped him from kissing her again.

“We’ll have to get up soon,” she said making the Portuguese roll his eyes before he kissed her again; Sophia felt him settle between her legs as the kiss started to heat up, she knew what he wanted and wasn’t going to let him win.

“Junior will be awake soon,” she said as Cristiano started to kiss down her neck, he groaned knowing Sophia was right though he didn’t have any intentions of stopping.

The blonde rolled her eyes as she slipped out from under Cristiano and pulled on his shirt from the night before.

The Portuguese watched her intently, he couldn’t keep his eyes off where his shirt stopped in the middle of her thighs; his eyes darkened as his mind flickered with images of what they had done the night before.

Standing Sophia looked over at Cristiano knowing he was watching her, she sighed as she walked over to him and kissed him; the two gently kissed for a moment until Sophia pulled away and walked out of the room knowing that he would follow her.

Cristiano watched her leave before he pulled on his boxer briefs and followed after her; he had no intentions after last night of letting Sophia out of his sight.

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Sophia smiled at the antics of her two older sisters as they questioned Cristiano about their younger sister; Fiona and Jennifer had arrived one hour after the couple had woken up, surprising both Cristiano and Sophia who hadn’t been expecting them.

Cristiano looked at Sophia for help as her sisters continued to question his intentions with their sister; however the blonde just smiled and turned her attention back to little Cris who was happy sitting in Sophia’s arms.

“Girls leave Cristiano alone,” Suzanna called as she and Dolores entered the house, smiling as she looked at Sophia who rolled her eyes at her sisters.

Fiona nodded before making her way over to Junior and Sophia while Jennifer glared at Cristiano who looked nervously at the oldest Collins sister.

Dolores and Suzanna stepped into the kitchen smiling at one another; they knew Cristiano would be leaving for training soon which meant that they could talk with Sophia about her wedding dress.

The moment came quicker than the two mothers had expected, though what happened when Cristiano went to leave did surprise them; Sophia carefully wrapped her arms around the Portuguese’s neck as he gave her a kiss.

Making both mothers’ look at one another than back at their youngest children who continued to kiss for a moment before Cristiano pulled away muttering something about being late for training.

As soon as he was out of the door, Suzanna and Dolores entered living room and dumped several bridal magazines in front of Sophia; who looked at them confused, she had forgotten that they were meant to be organising the wedding.

“You’re getting married next year… you’ll have to start planning at some point,” Suzanna told her daughter as she took Junior from her and gave him to Jennifer; she wanted to make sure that the day was perfect and everything was right for the big day.

Biting her lip, Sophia looked at the magazines as much as she wanted to look through them she knew there was no guarantee that Cristiano wouldn’t change his mind and find a way to escape their arranged marriage no matter how happy they were at that moment.

Fiona rolled her eyes, at the look on her sister’s face making the younger woman glare at her while Dolores and Suzanna started to talk about the wedding and what they wanted to do.

Sophia sighed knowing she would have to help start planning sooner or later, picking up a magazine she couldn’t help but feel completely lost when it came to what she wanted in a wedding.

Jennifer and Fiona rolled their eyes, as their mother and Dolores continued to talk about what they wanted; before they signalled for their sister to follow them into the kitchen once Junior was settled into his play-pen.

Once they had stepped into the kitchen after grabbing a few of the magazines, Fiona and Jennifer turned to Sophia; they knew that their mother was going to force what she wanted on their younger sister no matter what happened.

“Okay… what is it that you want for your wedding?” Jennifer asked making the blonde look at her nervously.

 The two older sisters knew that Sophia hadn’t been thinking about her wedding and if their mother had her way then she would plan the entire thing. 

“And not what Madre wants, not what Dolores wants… what do you want?” Jennifer said wanting what was best for her sister, she didn’t agree with her sister’s engagement to Cristiano but she had never seen her baby sister so happy and she knew that it was all down to the footballer.

Fiona had always rebelled against Suzanna’s ideals when she was growing up from dying her hair when she was sixteen to getting her belly-button pierce when she turned eighteen.

“I don’t want a big wedding… something small, personal,” Sophia said making Jennifer nod as she wrote down what her sister had said, she knew that if they didn’t side with their sister then she wouldn’t get the wedding that she wanted.

“What about venues?” Fiona asked as they continued to start to plan Sophia’s wedding to Cristiano; she knew that Dolores wanted the couple to marry in a church as did Suzanna, they didn’t seem to care what the couple wanted.

The blonde swallowed as she thought about what she truly wanted, she was still a little unsure of how things with Cristiano would work out but she knew that there couldn’t be any harm in starting to make some plans for the wedding.

Sophia just hoped that the couple wanted similar things.