5

Oh, Crystal thought, an irresistible smile on her face and her heart in celebration, she loved him so much, she would always love him she was sure. She was so looking forward to exchanging the sacred vows of marriage with him and wished she could live happily with him for the rest of her life. As soon as she saw him, so handsome with his soft, almost blond hair, his water-green eyes and looking at her so lovingly, she couldn't hold back and ran to him to exchange a long kiss as passionate as it was grateful. Yes, she was, deeply, infinitely so in love, for although Leandro was a great help in her mourning for her first love, it was her Nathan, her great love of her own who saved her and gave her a new life.

"I love you so much." Nathan, she whispered in his ear before biting him sensually.

Nathan, for his part, carried her precious burden to their bedroom, kissing and sucking tenderly on her neck and shoulders, undressing her while also getting rid of his clothes, which had become too cumbersome.

He laid the young woman on the bed, admiring her and making sure he was naked as quickly as possible, before disposing of the remains of his fiancée's clothes.

They loved each other that evening as they had loved each other from the very first moment, but something had changed, something still imperceptible to both of them, but it was there.

When the lovers tried to catch their breath, tenderly entwined in each other's arms, they waited in complicit silence until they could speak without running out of breath, then Crystal raised herself slightly to see the face of the man she loved, and looked at him with all the love she was capable of, then kissed his chest.

"I love you."

"I love you too, my darling," he replied, caressing her shoulders and face.

She sighed with happiness.

"How was your day?" he continued, settling a little more against his fiancée.

"Loaded." she admitted with an adorable little laugh. "I was late for my weekly appointment with the girls because of some work I wanted to finish today."

"I understand." he made as she expected, and she was all the happier and more in love for it.

"And you, my darling? Why were you late? That's not usual for you. I was a little worried all the same."

"I'm fine," he reassured her, kissing her silky hair. "It's just that I had a late appointment of late, one I'd completely forgotten about. My assistant had been gone for a good hour, and I was about to do the same when this appointment showed up on my doorstep. I could have won, of course, but since he'd come on his own and was an important customer..." He was satisfied, I thought.

"He was satisfied, I hope."

"He was. We must have virtually visited at least fifty houses before he found what he was looking for. We're going to visit on Monday. He'll buy, I'm confident."

And he was. He was really good, the young woman observed as she snuggled a little closer to her love.

"That's my man."

But as Nathan flipped Crystal onto her back to renew their act of love, the rift widened a little more.

" Forget, huh..." quirked Crystal as she gazed up at their beige-colored bedroom ceiling adorned with classic molding.