Monica was staring at a huge freaking shiny red car with a huge shiny white bow on it. Merry Christmas Sunshine is written across the windscreen. What is the actual fudge? “Ah Julien, that’s a car!” Turning to face him, she can see an enormous smile on his face. She is taken aback, she hasn't seen him this happy for a while. She knows he’s been hovering over her and trying to makesure that she was okay; it has taken a toll on him. “Well, it has four wheels and what looks like a steering wheel inside it. So, yeah; it possibly is a car,” he laughs.She is stunned, not sure what to do or say. No one has ever given her a gift like a car before. She means, what do you say to a gift like this? Oh thanks, she loves it just doesn’t seem enough. She has been standing in the same spot just staring at this bright red huge car for too long. She can feel Julien’s gaze burning into her. After what they shared this morning was barely a reality to her Finally, he takes her hand leading her to th
Hearing the click of the door opening, Monica looks up only for her smile to falter when she sees Bray sauntering in and not Julien. Making a dramatic scene of sniffing under his armpits, he says, “nope I don’t smell. I don’t know why you’re looking so disappointed to see me walk through the door, Monica. Do you realise how many ladies would swap places with you just to sit and watch me get all hot and sweaty?” He waggles his eyebrows up and down at her. Monica can’t help but laugh a little. “I was waiting for Julien, have you seen him?” Bray heads over to the weight bench, pulling his shirt over his head before laying down on it. “Who?” he asks as he lifts the weight bar over his head. How he is lifting that thing is beyond her. The weights on him it look like they weigh a ton. “Funny,” Monica says, getting up from her spot, walking over to him and glaring down at him. “Where’s your brother Bray? He told me to meet him in here, I’ve been waiting for fifteen minutes already.” Bray co
Monica didn't notice as the door opened and she didn't stop trying to land a punch as Julien’s voice booms across the room. “What the fuck do you think you’re doing?” Bray stops blocking and slightly turns towards Julien. That’s when she sees her opportunity and she swings her right arm out, landing a punch on his face. Where she could not tell her, but she definitely felt the contact. That just can’t miss the dramatic yell from Bray, “Ah, god dammit Monica! You fucking punched me!” He holds his hand up to his face, covering his left eye. Oh god, Monica stops in place, the high feeling of making contact and landing a punch turns into a feeling of dread. She thinks that she hurt him, she can’t believe she actually punched him. Sure, she really wanted to land a hit on him, but she didn’t want to hurt him. “I’m so sorry, Bray. I … I didn’t mean to. I just got carried away." She tries to explain herself at the same time not let the tearsfall that are threatening to come loose. Julien wr
“Mm-hmm." She continues to stare at the ring. When Julien grabs her face, tilting her chin up so she is looking at him. “Sunshine. Monica. I was going to do this differently, more romantically, but I couldn’t wait. I love that the first thing I see in the morning when I wake up is your beautiful face. I love that that’s also the last thing I see before I close my eyes at night. I love how you have brought so much light and joy into my otherwise dark and dim world.” “The word love doesn’t even begin to describe what I feel for you. I don’t think there is a word to describe it. It’s like you are a part of me, when I’m not with you it’s like I’m short of oxygen. I would love nothing more than to wake up with you in my arms every morning for the rest of my life, to spend the rest of my life loving you the way you deserve to be loved. Monica Tedd, will you marry me?” The tears are running down her face uncontrollably. No one has ever loved her like Julien loves her. As she was processin
“You are a gift, the fact that you said yes is the best thingyou could have ever given me, sunshine. I don’t need anything else from you, just you.” Nodding her head, Monica motions for him to move on with it and open the box. The moment he lifts the lid she knows what he sees.Her, in lingerie, all variations of red lingerie. She was nervous as he lifts the first picture and sees that there is another underneath it. Suddenly he sits on the floor, crossed legged with the box in front of him, lifting picture after picture out. He still hasn’t said anything and it’s driving her crazy. Does he hate them that much? “I know they aren’t that good, and I was planning on the pictures being printed into a book, but I ran out of time and had to settle.” He looks up at her with an undecipherable look in his eyes. “Sunshine, these look fucking amazing. I’m torn right now between how much I love these pictures and the knowledge that someone had to take them, which means someone was looking at you
Monica’s alarm starts blaring on the bedside table, shereaches out blindly swatting at her phone. Laughing, Julien rolls over top of her and turn the alarm off. “Morning, sunshine.” he kisses the top of her head. “Don’tmove, I’ll get your coffee.” Julien hears her mumble something incoherent as he walks out of the bedroom. Returning with her coffee, it does not surprise him to findher sound asleep again. He takes a sip of the sweet crap she calls coffee and then put the cup down. Leaning down, he gently rolls his lips over the top of hers, urging her mouth open with his tongue. She doesn’t disappoint, opening for him she meets Julien's tongue with strokes of her own. “Mmm, you taste divine,” she says as she slowly comes to. Laughing, Julien pulls back; pulling her up into a sitting position. Handing her the coffee cup, he suggests, “drink up, sunshine. Just think, if you quit your job and come work at our club or the business, you won’t ever have to wake up at these ungodly hours
Monica reaches up touching Julien's face and pulls his eyes up to meet hers. "Julien, honey, I’m still marrying you. There is nothing in this world that could stop me from wanting to marry you. I can’t wear my ring because it’s just too big, it’s not practical. I have to put gloves on and off all day, I won’t be able to do that with the ring on.” Although Julien feels like a weight has been lifted knowing she’s not leaving, he still doesn't like the thought of her walking around without the fucking ring on her finger. He wants the world to know she’s taken and taken by him. There’s also the fact that that particular ring has a GPS tracker in it. Julien knows, not his finest moment putting a tracker on her fiancée, but given the circumstances he thinks if he ever had to actually use it, he won’t regret putting it there. She of course does not know that her ring has this extra feature. There is no way Julien is letting her walk out of this apartment without that ring on her. Standing u
“Come on lovebirds, I have somewhere I need to be. Ican’t hold this button forever you know,” Bray calls out from inside the lift. Laughing at him, Monica pulls away and walks into the lift. As the doors close, an unsettling feeling returns to Julien's gut. He tries to shake it off as separation anxiety. That’s all it is, he haven’t been separated from her for over three weeks now. She’s safe at the bar, there is security everywhere there to protect the staff and the bidders. Looking at the clock again, Julien notes it’s just nearing one o’clock. He has been at the club for the last three hours going over everything they can have on Catalina. There’s nothing giving any whereabouts to where she could be now, and it’s pissing him the fuck off. The foreboding feeling that he have in the pit of his stomach hasn’t left him all day. Something isn’t right, they were missing something, he just don’t know what. Julien has been texting Monica all morning, and now and then she will send a br