Betrayal

Betrayal ~ Chapter 5

She took the arm Francis offered her and giggled when a few minutes later her son copied the movement with his sister.

'He's a quick study like I was," he said proudly.

"Quick study? Then why did we spend hours prancing up and down the stairs at your mother's request?"

He laughed, "So I could spend more time with you of course," he confided.

"Francis, we were 7 years old, you loved torturing me back then and now you tell me I was forced to walk up and down those stairs for hours in my heels because you wanted to spend time with me?"

"I might not have realized until now how much that would have pained you,' he admitted.

"Only about as much as you pitching apples at me over the fence," she protested.

He snickered, "that was just pure fun, you always gave as good as you got. It made me think twice before doing things like that to you."

She smiled.

They sat down by the river, when their son asked why his father would throw apples at his mother.

He made a face at her as she giggled, "sometimes I forget we have little ears," he said.

Francis looked at his young son, "when your mother and I were just a bit older than you," he told both of them, "we were best friends for the most part and we were told we would be wed when we were old enough," he told his son. "Your mother and I have always loved each other, since we were children and she is beautiful is she not?"

Both children nodded their heads, soaking in what he was telling them.

"You should see her when she is having fun! She is radiant," he boasted as he reached into the picnic basket and pulled out the apples.

Marie laughed, 'oh no you don't," she grabbed for the apples only managing to get a couple of them.

Her husband stood up as she ran for cover behind a nearby tree squealing. She tried to see where he had gone but she knew he was hiding. She smiled, as she made her way up the tree for a better vantage point. She could see her son and daughter now chasing each other while they waited for their parents to make their move. As she moved across a tree branch she looked down to see him directly under her. She threw her first apple hitting him square in the chest, laughing.

He looked up, "I should have known." He said making his way up the tree. She walked to the back of it and slid down out of it racing back to the children laughing with him on her heels. She felt an apple hit her back and she giggled. He caught her and pulled her against him, stealing a kiss and she could feel how much more aroused he was than when they had left. She wiggled a bit before moving away giving each of her children an apple and telling them to go get their father.

"That's not fair," he said backing away laughing.

"Who says I play fair," she teased back throwing his words back at him that he had repeated this morning.

She laughed at her son and daughter chasing him, they were fast and Rose was quickly learning to pitch and aim. After a long while they tired of the game and came back to sit with her.

She laughed as she began pulling food out. Her husband bit into a grape halfway bringing it to her lips and she giggled as she ate her half of the grape and then licked the sweetness of her husband's lips.

"ewwww" they heard Rose say and the broke apart laughing.

"What's the matter Rose," her mother said. "Someday you will also marry a Prince," she smiled. "Your father and I will have to be discussing that soon I suppose," she told him.