"Alright, can we do it again?

John giggled, he shook his head lightly, "go to sleep now," his tone of voice differed from earlier. Now it was smoother and calmer, she wondered which tone she liked more.

"I don't want to go," Roselyn complained as she scrunched up her face. John smiled while he stroked her hair behind her ear.

"Do you want to sleep here with me?" He asked admiring her cheeks blushing as she snuggled on his chest while she wrapped her arms around him. She felt like a koala clinging to the tree.

"Can I?" Roselyn asked, and John nodded. On Roselyn's face formed a smile and John returned the smile placing a kiss on her forehead.

John wrapped his hands around Roselyn's shoulders and looked at her from upside like if he was supervising her.

Roselyn's eyes darted as she kept admiring his beauty, a knot on her stomach followed the tingling feeling as words were escaping from her mouth.

"I love you, John." Before she could realize it, she said the statement she had never imagined to ever say in her life.

John's lips curved up, as he leaned closer to her to rub his nose with hers.

"I love you too," John replied without hesitation. All of a sudden, it seemed so easy to enunciate those words and finally express his feelings. He remembered during the previous years of his life all the women he met begged him to say those words to them. But as much as he wanted to say it not to hurt their feelings it was like his lips were repressing any tentative.

And what happened now? That confession slipped out his tongue. Roselyn lifted the blanket and managed to fit in. She pulled the sheet over her neck and laid underneath there to finally glance up at him. A smile unconsciously bloomed on her face and her eyes sparkled in joy.

"You're so beautiful." John complemented before he breathed out as if her beauty was able to hurt him.

She laid her head on the fissure between his neck and his shoulder, placing a hand over John's torso. His chest was muscled and edgy but she wouldn't replace it with any pillow in the world.

Roselyn could feel John's warm breath on her head and before she could reply to his flattering.

Roselyn's eyelids felt heavy and she hardly managed to keep her eyes open. She blinked a few times, she felt exhausted after that long day. Her vision slowly buried and her eyes automatically closed while she succumbed to the sleep.

A sweet smile curved up John's lips, whilst he admired his wife falling asleep, she looked like the most beautiful and sweet creature in the entire world.

John felt his arm starting to tingle for the weight of Roselyn's head pressure over his wrist but he refused to move it not to wake her up and bore the pain.

After few minutes John fell asleep as well and just like magic their foreheads after some minutes met to rest against each other as their breathed synchronized.

***

Roselyn slowly opened her eyes and rubbed her eyes while she opened her mouth to yawn but she steered into someone.

Her eyes widened as soon as she remembered about last night and that she fell asleep in his room.

"Good morning," John said in a raspy pleasuring voice. Roselyn smiled and under the blankets, she pinched herself to make sure she wasn't still dreaming.

"Good morning," she replied as soon as she felt a light pain making her realize she wasn't dreaming...

For the first time in her life, the reality of her life was better than the one she would ever dream of.

With him by his side, Roselyn couldn't ask for a better reality than the one she was living. The dreams she had before meeting him now looked so insignificant. She felt even foolish to think that she had never included love in the equation. But maybe that was the reason she felt so overwhelmed and safe now. Because John ushered into her life and unexpectedly before Roselyn could realize it, he drove away all the doubts she had about love like clouds in the sky to finally welcome the sunshine to her life.

John giggled, as he waved his hand in front of her face, to wake her up from her trace as she was looking at him like if she was bewitched.

Roselyn blinked few times and covered her eyes with her hands hiding in embarrassment.

A thought imploded into her mind, as she remembered something. The maids were probably waiting for her to wake up before accompanying her to the dining room like a casual day.

How could she now walk back to her room wearing a very short transparent dress? She massaged her forehead trying to come out with a solution. Why didn't she thought about that the evening before? Probably she was too busy to think about other things and she didn't imagine she would sleep in John's room eventually.

"How can I walk back in my room wearing this?" Roselyn complained mentally thanking God the old maid wasn't there. She wouldn't imagine what the maid would say seeing her in that condition.

Roselyn's hair was messed and her underwear was lost probably somewhere inside the sheets.

"Why? You look exquisite." John joked as his eyes traveled through her dress, she wasn't wearing anything so it was even easier to see through it.

Roselyn scoffed, getting up from the bed to look for her pants. John managed to wake up just to go go to grab the jacket that hanged over the chair's back and reached his wife.

Roselyn's eyebrow knitted down puzzled by his gesture, why did he need his jacket now?

John wrapped the jacket around her shoulder and Roselyn smiled when she understood he was giving her his jacket to cover herself to reach her room.

Roselyn stretched before one arm as he slipped the sleeve over and then the other.

The jacket was so loose and long over her legs that he had to kneel down to buttom it up.