Chapter 44

"Marry me".

He held the ring box in his hand and my hand in the other. I couldn't imagine my life without him so of course ....

"Yes!" tears fell and it was perfect.

I just got engaged to the man I loved with every fibres of my being.

He kissed me deeply and slip the ring on my finger.

"You are stuck with me now, Miss Jasmine", he chuckled.

"Oh,how will I ever escape".

"Well you can try,but don't expect to go too far".

Then he turned serious so I knew he wasn't joking with the next line.

"I'm not going to let anyone hurt you ever again".

It had been a few days since I was allowed out of the hospital and John was driving me crazy!

It was all,

"Be careful, you'll tear up your wound open."

"Don't do that, you'll hurt yourself". etc

I swear I was already going to lose it. I had a break from it today because he'd gone to work.

He made Mrs Trenton keep an eye on me but he had no idea that her alliance was with me.

She loves me more.

Take that, John!

I'd told her to take a day off.

I got bored so I did my usual go to boredom killer.

Cooking.

I was still cooking when John walled in.

"What on earth are you doing?" his voice rising.

"What does it look like?"

"Where is Mrs Trenton?"

"She left".

"Jasmine,stay away from the stove", he stalked towards her.

"Nope".

When he got to me,he took the spoon out of my hand and put it on the counter.

He turned me to face him and held me around my waist.

"Why aren't you resting?"

"Because I'm not a doll. I'm not as fragile as you think I am, John".

"I know you are not,but you are still healing. I'm just looking at you because I love you".

Why does he have to be so cute?

I groaned and he knew he'd won.

He said me down on the dining chair and finished up all the kitchen

TWO WEEKS LATER

My stitches had healed and now I am back to work.

As soon as the stitches were gone, John took full advantage. He has dealt with blue balls for so long.

Poor guy!

It was Saturday and his parents had invited us over for a barbecue.

They had met Ella last week for the first time and loved her.

She was getting ready in her room while John and I were in ours.

John was in a denim shirt and jeans and damn he looks so damn delicious. I had to pick out a summer dress seeing as it was really warm today.

He came up behind me and wrapped his arma around my waist and smiled through the mirror.

"You look ravishing, Miss George". he whispered in my ear before moving his lips to my neck.

" if you don't stop, Mr. Smith,we are going to be very late".

"I'm sure they won't mind", his lips curled into a smirk against my skin. Just as it was getting heated,there was a knock at the door.

"Fucking hell!" John whispered making me laugh at him.

"We're coming out now". I called.

We walked out to find Ella and her boyfriend waiting for us .

The driver took us today.

We arrived at his parents house and Ella and Lucas ran to the backyard.

They had been acting weird since we got in the car and we soon found out why.

"SURPRISE!" shouted around 200 people, many our friends, family and colleagues.

His parents came up and handed us the champagne.

"Happy engagement party!" Sarah said, pulling us into a hug.

"Thank you for this,it's beautiful".

"Oh honey,its the least we could do for the girl that's made my son so happy". There was only one person missing from today.

John knew me so well and whispered,

"She's watching and smiling right now".

He kissed me and led me to the patio to dance. We spent a while doing that before we went round meeting everyone and thanking them for being here today.

The engagement party lasted into the night.