can i, baby? | zdj & cvm | completed

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i woke up with christopher's arm over my waist, pressing my back to his chest. i turned around to take a look at his face. he looked so peaceful while he slept. i brought my hand up to his face, tracing his lips with my thumb.

the things those lips did to me yesterday.

i smiled to myself as i felt him stir awake. he opened his eyes, "what are you smiling at?"

"nothing." i replied.

he smirked, pulling me on top of him before kissing me.

"we just woke up." i laughed as i pulled away.

"i don't see the problem here."

i rolled my eyes, "we haven't brushed our teeth."

"you're complaining that i can't kiss you because you haven't brushed your teeth after last night you had my—"

"babe!" i whined.

he chuckled. "sorry. i love you."

"i love you too." i kissed his cheek. "now let's get up."

i tried to get up, but he pulled me back down. "you think that i will let you go without giving me a real kiss?"

"did i not just give you one?"

"doesn't count, that was on the cheek." he pouted.

i scoffed, but leaned down to quickly kiss him anyway.

"you call that a real kiss?" he exclaimed. "that was just a peck!"

i stared at him in disbelief. "you suck."

"i mean, that's more like your job, but whatever you say babygirl."

i groaned, "babe!"

"what?" he grinned.

~ ♡ ~

we got up a couple hours later. he took me to his village, to the church where our wedding would take place.

"it's so beautiful." i said as i looked around. it was huge, tall columns adorned the place, servants had begun to decorate the altar with white and golden fabric that hung from the ceiling and fell down to the floor. "why are they decorating already? we haven't even chosen the day yet."

"my brother insisted that they started as soon as possible, he wants this place to be transformed with decorations. they will probably take a couple of weeks." he scoffed. "he's being such a bridezilla."

i giggled. "my mother sorta is, too. she's planning everything as if the wedding was taking place next week."

"at least that way we get to spend more time together." he smiled before pecking my lips.

i sighed, turning my face away from him. we kept walking hand in hand. i occasionally hummed at whatever christopher was saying so he wouldn't know that i wasn't paying attention.

i had almost forgotten about zabdiel. the keyword here being almost. when christopher mentioned that we could spend more time together, the image of a shirtless zabdiel under me on my bed came to my mind. what the hell is wrong with me?

"are you alright, my love?"

i nodded, "perfectly fine."

he let go of my hand to place his arm around my waist as we walked out of the church. "why did you only nod when i asked where did you want to place the white roses?"

i widened my eyes. "i may have zoned out for a moment..."

i don't think he believed it, but he chose to shrug it off because he didn't say anything else during the ride back to his castle.

"your people are so lovely." i smiled as i looked out the window. "they acted as if they had never seen royals before."

"that's because they probably hadn't." he said. "the only ball we have hosted was for my brother's coronation and that was over ten years ago. also, my father didn't like when me and my brother played with, and i quote, "the filthy poor kids" i never understood why he was so against it, or why he hated the villagers so much. they worked their asses off to pay tremendous amounts of taxes to him, what's so bad about that?"

"my mother was the same." i scoffed. "she didn't hate the villagers or anything, she just didn't want me to play with them. she wanted me to be the typical classy, pinky up, pretty princess. but my dad always took me anyways."

"what a spoiled little princess you were."

"oh i definitely was." i laughed.

he smiled, but stayed quiet the rest of the ride. i took his hand and rested my head on his shoulder. a comfortable silence filled the space around us when christopher turned his head and left a kiss on my forehead.

~

hello everyone !!
so my original plan was to have some cute bonding time between chris & rose in the last chapter, but when i was writing it somehow i ended up writing smut instead. oops. but hey, you got the cute bonding moment in this chapter instead.

if you think 'why the hell can't they keep it in their pants?' i came up with a good explanation i swear. you have to put yourself in rose's shoes. she is confused, part of her is still in love with zabdiel. she wants to get over him and christopher is her only way. she also doesn't want to hurt him like zabdiel did to her. she ends up sleeping with him so that she can erase every memory she has of zabdiel and can live happily ever after with chris. she acted out of impulse, she has no idea how this will affect her future.

i decided that i will be writing the spanish translation of this book at the same time i write this one, but since my main focus will be finishing this one i won't publish it until i have every chapter translated. in my opinion i like writing in english more than spanish, but there are some girls that wanted to read the story but didn't understand english that well which is why i'll be rewritting it (more like i'll probably use google translate and then just check if it's written properly).

i'm sorry for not posting this on time and that it's too short. i could come up with an excuse that i was too busy or whatever, but truth is since it's summer i've been getting all the sleep i lost during the school year. but again, i'm really sorry for not posting it on wednesday like i promised.

keep reading! there's drama coming up ahead. ;)