When the day met the night Part 2

Chapter Twenty Three

I looked away trying to avoid the flashes from the cameras, there weren't many around thank goodness, but enough to put me on edge. "Come on we're nearly inside" muttered Jared near my ear, he held my hand tight then stopped to help me as we walked up the steps to the restaurant. A couple of weeks had passed and Jared had convinced me to accompany him to a dinner. It was with some guys from a company that he was thinking of investing in. I was sitting next to Jared and on the other side of me was the girlfriend of one of the founders of the company. She was also pregnant but only four months, still it was great to talk to someone who knew how I was feeling. I looked at the menu biting my lip, "there's nothing on this I want" I said to him quietly, "I had a feeling you wouldn't like anything on it as soon as I looked at it" he said laughing quietly in my ear. I nodded, I put my hand on his thigh well hidden by the tablecloth, "I'd rather have you for dinner" I said in barely a whisper, my hand moved further up his thigh, he glanced at me in surprise, but he hid it almost immediately. He took a sip of water, cleared his throat and shifted in his seat, just as I was about to reach my goal, he clamped his hand on mine. I looked at him and he gave me a small shake of his head. I smiled sweetly, "what are you ordering?" I said casually to him. "Ah I'm not sure, you?" he said, holding my hand with his and the other hand on the menu. "I don't know yet, would you mind pouring me some water?" I said smiling cheekily at him, knowing he would have to let go of my hand to reach it. A wry smiled crossed his face, "sure" he said, reluctantly letting go of my hand. I moved my hand up to his crotch, I saw his hand pause on the bottle as I gave him a gentle squeeze. He looked at me as he poured and I had to stifle a laugh, my hand tightened and I felt him growing hard. I smiled at him again, "thank you" I said sweetly, he grabbed my hand again, but this time, I clamped down, squeezing him even harder and palmed the length of him through the material of his pants. He tried in vain to stop me but, there wasn't much he could do without alerting the others as to what was going on. I was amused no end and I was still managing to answer a question to someone across the table, he meanwhile was having trouble stringing two words together. "Jared where did you say the bathrooms were?" I said, "uh that way past the bar, you okay? I'll just come with you make sure your okay" his voice husky, he cleared it quickly and stood up directly behind me and helped me up, then walked right behind me again, as he directed me to the restroom. He took a quick glance around then pulled me into the mothers room, thank God no one was in there, and locked the door. He rounded on me slowly pushing me up against the wall, "I had to walk through that restaurant with a hard on, you're lucky we got up when we did, I thought you were going to jerk me off right then and there" he said in a low voice, his hands on the wall on either side of me. "I'm bored.." I said rolling my eyes and giving him a fake yawn. His eyes narrowed. I could see a twitch at the corner of his lips, he was trying not to grin. "Well I've got to go back out there and try and make coherent conversation" he said in an annoyed voice. I shrugged, "you're being very proper and I don't like it" I said rolling my eyes once again. He smirked now and ran a finger down my cheek and my throat, his open hand resting on my chest, his fingers ever so softly grasping my neck "you surprised me that's all, you know very well I'm not at all proper" he said leaning in and softly kissing my lips before taking hold of my bottom lip and biting it hard. I gasped and my pulse started racing, suddenly there was a knock at the door and a voice, "excuse me are you going to be long?". We both looked to the door then back to one another, "fuck" he growled in a low voice, "we'd better get out, I'll go tell them you don't feel well and we have to leave, you meet me at the front" he whispered, I giggled. He let go and nodded at me before unlocking the door, there was a woman standing there with a toddler on her hip. "Oh hey, sorry she wasn't feeling well" he said smiling and motioned toward my belly. She looked at us suspiciously but said, "that's fine" and ducked into the room closing the door behind us. I giggled as he shook his head grinning. He walked me to the foyer and asked for his car to be brought round then hurried off to make our excuses to the group. I waited a few minutes then turned to see him striding towards me. He gave me a very wicked grin, grasped my hand and led me outside. As we made our way out and he helped me down the steps toward the car, the cameras that were there clicked away madly, coming right up to me, "guys! come on, back off please?!" he said loudly shielding me from them as I got into the passenger seat. "Fuck off" he muttered as he got in, I looked over at him, "they don't usually annoy you" I said curiously. "Yeah well, at the moment they are" he said with a frown. I exhaled slowly, trying to relax. "I'm going to take you somewhere!" he said suddenly with a grin. I looked over at him, "where?" I asked curiously. "You'll see" he said waggling his eyebrows. I grinned, "well we're all by ourselves and we can have a lie in, in the morning so ..." I shrugged. He laughed, "I love that phrase, have a lie in" he said putting on a British accent, "it always makes me think of lying in bed in protest". I reached over to stroke his cheek, "well I'll gladly stay in bed all day with you protesting" I said with a wink. "I bet you would too" he grinned back. Twenty minutes later we were parked. Our favorite beach in Malibu, secluded and beautiful. The sun had almost completely gone down when we made our way onto the sand. I took off my shoes, wonderfully it was still warm from the sun beating down on it all day. He grasped my hand and we walked down the beach, there was no one around. A couple of people in the distance walking their dogs, but no one close enough to pay any attention to us. "I should have taken my shoes off as well" he grumbled stopping, "wait, wait" he said kneeling down and starting to unlace his boots. I looked out into the ocean, the breeze was warm and inviting, I felt peaceful for the first time in what felt like months. "Hey, can you give me a hand" I heard him say, "oh sorry, what is it?" I said looking back at him. He was kneeling, on one knee. One hand up, holding out a box. It was small and I recognized it as a Tiffany's box. My breath caught in my throat, I slowly shook my head, almost imperceptibly. "Jared I ... " I breathed, my hands trembling, his was as steady as a rock as he held it out expectantly. "Harper, marry me, please" he said, I looked down at him, the beautiful smile that made me melt on his face. My heart started beating faster and I was lost for words, "you're the love of my life, you're the mother of my children, you're my everything, I want you to be my wife" he said, "but we're so much more than that, we're partners, lovers" I said putting my hand on his cheek. "I want you to be mine, in every way" he said, I sighed and looked away for a moment. "It's so.... it sounds so domestic, a wife, like I need to become a different person" I said quietly biting my lip. "You know that's not true, it'll still be us, we will still be the same people" he said. I looked at him, his eyes bright but the smile almost wavering. I grabbed his hand closing it around the box and his face fell. "Well you need to put it on me" I said holding out my hand, he grinned widely. "You didn't open it" he said standing up finally. "I didn't care what was inside, that was never going to sway me, what you said, your words were all that I ever needed" I said smiling. He opened it and took out the ring. A simple square diamond, something I would have picked, perfect. "It's beautiful, just perfect, thank you" I said quietly. My hand had finally stopped trembling as he slipped it on my finger. I smiled and kissed him, his hands grasped the sides of my head holding me in place as he kissed me back harder. We heard some clapping and glanced around, an old couple with their dogs must have witnessed the exchange. Jared laughed and ran over to them, I couldn't hear what he was saying. But a minute later the lady walked up with Jared, she was holding his phone. "Smile you two lovebirds" she chuckled and snapped a photo of us. We thanked her and she waved to us walking off. "I doubt we're in any danger from them telling the media" he said, the grin still plastered on his face. I couldn't help but laugh as well. "How about we go around to that big rock where we've hidden before and have a quick fuck to celebrate?" he grinned widely waggling his eyebrows. "Are you kidding me? I'm about to burst and can barely move!!!" I laughed at him. "You know you've got to promise to love and obey me, right?" he said in a sexy voice, pretending to frown. "Hmmm okay, but not here baby" I said giving him a sexy smile, "but I promise I'll obey you the minute we get home" I said blowing him a kiss. "Deal, let's get your sexy ass home then baby" he said giving me a light slap on the ass and dragging me gently back to the car.