Chapter 245 - Kiss Me!

"You gave me the biggest gifts of my life," Santiago said, holding her hands. "You taught me how to live. How to love. How to care. How to think about the future. You give me my family back. My sister. My brother. My nephew. You created a home for both of us." He paused for a moment and then added," And you give me the biggest blessing of my life. You gave me an angel I could never wish for. Our Eleanora. Most of all, you gave me you." 

Persephone was crying at this moment because she had never seen Santiago using words before. He wouldn't usually talk more than needed but today he said all the things. She was so happy!

"I won't say much but I just want to let you know that I love you, Persephone Vitello," Santiago whispered as he stared at her face as if making a vow. Yeah, it was his vow. Vow of loving her until his last breath. He added with a helpless look, " I love you more than anyone else. I can't express in words what I exactly feel for you."

"I know our marriage wasn't meant for forever. If you want to leave, you can." He didn't just stop here today. It was him speaking and her listening. " I will not stop you. I just want to express my own feelings because I am afraid that if I didn't, I would regret it all my life." 

"I love you, Red," He whispered in the end. 

Persephone laughed and cried at the same time as she jumped to wrap her arms around him. He caught her but his foot slipped and both of them fell in the swimming pool behind them. 

Santiago held her petite body against his own tightly and stood on his feet while helping her stand up. Gazing at each other's faces, they burst out laughing. 

The romance was not made for them. One of them would at least say or do something to spoil the whole situation. 

The whole situation was supposed to end with more sent words spoken by her and maybe an intense kiss then but now… 

That emotional environment was broken and they were laughing, clutching their stomachs in the cold water. 

Thankfully, winters had gone or their romantic confession would have ended up with both of them in hospital, suffering from pneumonia! 

Persephone shivered and leaned on him in the freaking cold water as a gust of cold wind blew past her. The sky was clear. Not even a single cloud was in view. The stars were twinkling and the moon was shining on her best side, proudly as if teasing them about their little affair. Even the moon knew them better than they did. 

"Santiago?" Persephone called out his name as she suddenly stopped laughing. 

"Yes?" Santiago looked at her and replied. Her short red hair was dripping with water. Her bare face was shining under the moonlight. 

"Buy me Louboutins when we go back home!" She said in a serious voice. His proposal cost her more than a thousand dollars worth of shoes! How could she forgive him just like that! " You just spoiled my new pair of Louboutins!!" She said this when they were still in the water. 

"I will," Santiago murmured. He wasn't wrong when he said that his wife has a memory of goldfish. She couldn't concentrate on one single thing. He had proposed to her. Confessed his undying love for him and she was still worried about some shoes? 

"How about you just give me your card and I will buy what I want?" Persephone tried her luck again. 

"Sure, Red," Santiago murmured once again. 

"And what about you stop complaining each time I make your bank balance bleed?" Give an inch and take a mile. This was what Persephone was doing right now! 

"I will," Santiago said with a serious nod. 

"How about you stop giving my time to Eleanora?" Persephone said, raising her brows. " I want one hour with you more than you spend with Eleanora each day!"

Was she petty enough to be jealous of her own daughter? Yeah! If she didn't get enough time with her husband, how was Eleanora supposed to get her younger siblings? 

Her husband was dense. She had to make some future plans! 

"I will," Santiago said with a small smile this time. She didn't always have a memory of fish. Sometimes, she was crafty enough to get her way with him. 

"And you will promise to love me each and every moment you are left with," Persephone demanded. 

"I promise," Santiago said, choking on a sob. 

"And now, kiss me!" She commanded. 

"As you wish ma'am," Santiago said, putting his mouth on her. 

Santiago grabbed her body by her waist and she wrapped her legs around his waist, her arms circling around his neck as his lips sucked on hers. Her heart was beating wildly and loudly in his ribcage. This was the moment when they both knew that they were nothing without each other. They belonged together. 

Persephone didn't need to say the words. She was expressing her feelings in the heated and intense kiss. She didn't know when Santiago pulled both of them from the water or when he had laid her on the cold bottom of the pool border but she didn't know that his lips left her mouth to suck on her neck and collarbones. He was offering her mercy at all. She knew that he would leave marks there. Not that she minds… 

His jacket was swimming in the pool and his shirt met its demise soon. And so did her clothes! 

There was no need for clothes between both of them. 

It had been a while…

It had been three months since he had felt her… 

And they couldn't bother to wait anymore… 

… 

Author Note: The ending would be ending soonI won't mark the story as completed! But I will be dropping epilogues in the future. Like their future life! 

And are you happy with this happily ever after? *eye rolls*