Charles [Short Story]

Chapter 6

It was early in the morning, the sun was still down when I woke up to make sure my sweet Stella was still here in my arms. I can't believe how strong she's been, how brave my little mate is. Thankfully Shamus came to us and now he is taken care of my mate is safe. I was laying there watching her take soft breathes in and out she sure was a beautiful women from head to toe. I watched her eyes flutter open and a smile spread across her face.

"Good Morning my love." I said placing a kiss to her head.

"Good Morning handsome." She said back. "How did you sleep?"

"I slept well knowing you were with me." I said pulling her in closer.

"I was thinking about something, I meant to ask you yesterday but the red room spooked me into forgetting." she whispered.

"What is it Stella?" I asked, I was very nervous.

She rolled over pulling the ring box I gave her from the drawer. Rolling back over she placed it in my hand. I looked her confused.

"Open it." she said.

I opened it to find the ring still there, I looked down knowing she would not want to become mine. She plucked the ring out offering it to me.

"I want to know something before you put it on my finger." she said. She looked down at the black ribbon pulling it and taking a note out of the secret compartment, she handed it to me as she laid her head back down. I took the note unfolding it. Rose's handwriting, I read it than I folded it back up placing it back into it's compartment.

"You want to know who Rose is." I asked I her, she nodded and stay quite listening. "It's a long story."

"It was 1545 when I first laid eyes on her, she was a sweet women. A widow who lost her husband died in a war fighting for King Henry the VIII. She didn’t have any kids so I started courting her and eventually I proposed and we were to be married. I was a happy man, until she got smallpox. Back than when you go sick Doctors didn’t know how to correctly care for you. She died 6 days after contracting it and I never loved anyone again. Until you came into my life." I explained. "This is the ring my father made for my mother when they were matched to be married. I kept it all these years hoping I would be able to give it to a women I loved, one who may want to spend all of eternity with me."

"I would like to be that women for you Charles." she whispered holding her hand out.

"Will you Stella Douglas Marry me and maybe one day become like me?" I asked her.

"Yes, a million times yes. I love you Charles I never want to spend another day without you." she said as I slipped the ring onto her finger pulling her in to my arms.

We spent the rest of the morning and afternoon making love, holding each other and just enjoying the moment.

" I didn’t know how to tell you about Rose, and I am sorry for that Stella." I said to her.

"It's alright Charles, I understand." she replied.

"When would you like to be married?" I asked her hoping she would say soon.

"Tonight, can we do it tonight?" she asked. "And than maybe we could turn me too.." that time when she spoke it was a whisper.

"If that's what you want my love ." I said with a smile on my face , she has made me the happiest man in the world.

Finally I wasn't alone, I would never be alone again.

Stella and I spent the following months traveling around the world, I took her to France, Rome, Canada. But we both fell in love with a small town in the Netherlands, we ended up buying an Estate there. That's where we spend most of our time. We also have a few new faces in our family, Stella found two little boys alone in the town with no one living to claim them. and we decided to take them in and adopt them but that's a story for another time.

TO BE CONTINUED.....