A/N: Okay, so just so that everyone knows, Avery is now 27 in this chapter, and Sam is 24.

Okay fuck.

I'm doing this. Honestly fucking finally because I've wanted her as my wife from the beginning but hell, fucking finally.

I'm at the jewellery shop, for the fiftieth time this month, picking out rings with Nikolai and we are finally getting close to what I really wanted to get Sam. Seeing Nikolai and Shadow tie the knot a few months ago just encouraged me further on finally taking a step in doing this. I've been pondering over this for a year now. Things have been busy raising Oliver and working at the same time, but marrying her was essential to me, and I was done putting it on hold.

"Okay, so, you'll add the diamonds here right?" Nikolai asked, well chided out since he's been a little annoyed with how slow they were working.

"Yes Sir. Do you want to wait and see it now or you can pick it up tomorrow?" They asked us.

"Yes, tomorrow morning, the first thing I'll be here. Check the size again, I don't want another mistake." I got out since the last few they sent us were a size too big I mean come on, are you fucking kidding?

"Yes ma'am, sorry about that ma'am. Tomorrow." They nodded at us, bowing slightly and we merely acknowledged it, picking up the receipt and walking out.

"Congratulations to both of you!" Now that made us stop in our tracks and turn behind.

"We're fucking gay!" Goddess, how are people so daft? We literally talked about Nikolai's wedding to a dude and how I'm buying a ring for my girlfriend?

"Heaven sake." Nikolai cursed out completely annoyed now making me chuckle.

"Come on, let's head back. You want dinner?" I asked as we neared my car and got in.

"Nah, Shadow wants to go to the new pizza place so just drop me at Burn." He says referring to the street.

"How's married life?" I asked him as we started moving. He sighs happily.

"Great, honestly, like I'm not even being romantic and shit, it's great. You know like, I'm so sure that he's mine. Honestly, it was hard for me to trust the mate bond you guys have. I don't have it. I can't feel it. And sometimes I'm just worried he doesn't feel that much for me as I do for him." Nikolai says softly making me give him a glance.

"But everything he does for me, the person he is, it changes everything. I've been waiting for him for so long Avery, god it's been a century now- more even. He's my beloved. Plus, the sex, now that has increased." He says lastly making me crack up.

"Oh God, I thought you were being all mushy." He chuckled too.

"No, but honestly. It's been my goal to be married, to have that commitment. It's different. I don't know how to explain it, but it's different." He says in thought, full of emotion.

"I'm happy for you, Nik. You deserve this." I say honestly and he smiles.

"You too. I can't wait for your wedding." He grins, turning to me in his seat.

"I haven't proposed yet, so shut up," I say meekly, anxious but really elated.

"But come on, you'll ask and she'll say yes. And boom." Will she? Is she ready to marry me though? I don't know. It worries me a little.

"Please have a tropical wedding!" Nikolai yells out in excitement. I shake my head smiling, hearing him go on and on about the decorations and what we'll wear. I'm letting Sam pick everything, I want her to have a wedding which she'll love.

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She's late. Again. I sighed out softly. I don't know why but my mind is just not sitting well with what's been happening. It's like there's something wrong and I don't want to assume the worst but I can't help it.

"Mama!" I hear Oli call out for me. We were sitting in our living room playing with his blocks and cars as we wait for Avery.

"Yes baby, this one, here," I say to him, passing him the red block to him. He's so smart. He colour coordinates things in everything he does. Honestly exactly like Avery does. Her clothes, earrings, and books are all arranged that way and now Oli has picked that up surprisingly.

"Brue, mama, is brue block." He giggles out as he arranged them all together making me cheer for him. Oh, I love him. He's just amazing. Truly.

"So smart, you're so smart Oli, you put all the blue blocks together." He gives me a toothy grin as I ruffle his curls and give him kisses. They're getting longer now and he doesn't want it to be cut or tied up. He literally throws a tantrum if we tie it up for a bath and demands to be cuddled later. My little baby boy.

I hear the keys jingle at the door and before I could say anything, Oli has started running to the door. A smile greets my face, guess I'm not the only one missing your mommy.

"How's my little prince?!" I hear Avery exclaim as I reach the door.

"Mommy, mommy! I play blocks, brue blocks." He says as I reach them and she picks him up in her arms, kissing his cheeks and head.

"You did? I'm so proud of you Oli, you gonna show mommy what you did?" Avery asked him, bopping his nose making him giggle cutely, now that sound, could wake a dead person.

"Yesh mommy!" He squealed out and asked to be put down before running back to his blocks. I see her peek and look at me, winking, and reaching for my hand.

"Baby girl." She whispers softly, hugging my waist and kissing my lips and cheek. I sighed, hugging her tightly.

"Hi," I say softly, I miss her. I don't know why. I just saw her today but I do.

"What's wrong love?" she asks, concerned, her fingers rubbing my waist. I shook my head giving her a smile.

"Just tired. We're waiting for you. Did you get dinner?" I ask and she nods, a little unsure with my answer. We walked to the living room and Avery mentioned she's gonna change. I decided to plate our food and bring them in front to the couch.

"You smell heavenly baby," Avery says as she hugs me from behind, kissing my shoulder and neck as we stood in the kitchen. I giggle.

"You sure it's not the food?" I say and she chuckles, nuzzling her nose in my hair.

"Definitely you. It's making me hungry." She mutters, nipping my ear now. Oh God, I know what's she's implying. My core tightened at this as she rakes her fingers down the front of my body, touching and feeling every inch of me, it's incredible how fast she can elicit a reaction from me.

"Babe... Dinner." I got out as she naughtily kissed my neck.

"Yes, then dessert." She breathes out, her breath fanning across it making goosebumps rise. Oh, God.

"Shut up," I say stupidly, knowing my face was all red and flushed. She turned me to her and kissed me hard, surprising me. I hooked my arms around her neck, pulling her closer as we kissed over and over again. I miss her, why do I miss her? Why is her touch so fucking good?

"Wanna go on a date tomorrow night?" Avery whispers against my lips as she stops before kissing me again, not allowing me to answer. She already knows my answer, I want to. Her fingers dig into my hip and move one hand to my ass cheek, making me gasp into the kiss.

"Avery-"

"Shush." She shut me up, kissing me even more, making me dizzy with the passion she was showing. She was feeling me up, turning me on so much. Her hand crawled under the back of my T-shirt, grazing her nails up to my bra hook, gripping it hard, making me stumble almost.

"Avery..." I tried again, but her fingers unclasp my hook, making me feel my bra loosen. Oh, God.

"Remove it." She growls out softly, before her fingers, pushes them off my tits, and cups them making me whimper.

"Avery, dinner-" The words got stuck in my throat as she pinches both my nipples and looks into my eyes, with so much lust and glowing silver eyes.

"Remove them and then we'll go and eat." My heart thundered at her request, the heat crawling up my neck.

"But.." I had nothing to say honestly. She raises her eyebrow daring me to continue, which somehow made me clench even more down there.

"Off." She demanded again as she pulled her hands back. I nodded, submissive to her request, and took them off.

"Good girl. Let's eat." She takes my bra from my hands, smirking, dropping it on the counter, pecking my lips before taking my hand dragging me with her to the living room, my heart thundering along. She's such a tease. I'm so gonna get her back for this. Later.

We then ate, feeding Oliver as well, watching the Lion King as it keeps Oliver entertained. Soon we were done with everything and Avery said she'll change Oliver and put him to bed as I clean up. I got it done pretty quickly and walked into our bedroom where Avery was cradling Oliver, rocking him so he would sleep off. I smiled seeing them together and how Oliver has his fingers gripping her blouse.

"He's growing up so fast." She whispers as I walk over to them.

"I know. I don't want him to." I kissed his cheek softly, seeing that he was fast asleep. He could always sleep faster around Avery. Her wolf could calm his down. I walked to our dresser wanting to take a bath before bed since it was still early.

"What are you doing?" I hear Avery ask me. Teasing her that's what since she has to hold Oliver, but I don't bother to answer her, smirking to myself as I removed my panties and stood naked, my back to her after bending down, simply sticking out my butt.

"Sam?" she whispered yell now, her eyes wide as I turn to her. I kept my confidence going as I lifted my hands to tie my hair up in a bun, keeping my eyes on her.

"Baby girl, come on..." she whines out now, as she stands up with Oliver in her arms. He stirs slightly making me giggle.

"Our son needs you," I say softly before walking into our bathroom, leaving the door slightly open. I hear her sigh making me chuckle as I turn the bathwater on. I got into the tub, my heart racing, not believing that I just did that in front of her. Oh, God. I've grown so confident it's like I'm a new person.

"Hey, you." I look up seeing Avery walk in after a few minutes. I gave her a shy smile, hugging my legs to me in the tub.

"He's asleep?" I ask and she nods before tying up her hair and removing her clothes. I kept my eyes on her the entire time, watching every curve on her, she's really so sexy. I saw a smile grace her lips knowing I was watching.

She gets into the tub, in front of me, pulling me in between her legs, opening mine as I let them rest on her thighs.

"You're so beautiful." She whispers, making me blush and lean my head on her shoulder.

"Thank you," I mumbled in a small voice, a smile on my lips.

"So what did you do today?" she asked, her fingers rubbing my waist.

"Work. That's it. You?" I ask back. I wanted to know why she was coming back late.

"Work too. Met up with Nikolai. That's it really." I look up at her searching her eyes.

"Really? What for?" she seemed to tense a little.

"Uh, he wanted to get something for Shadow, was asking me for some help." I nodded.

"But you've been coming home late for a while now." I started softly and I see something flicker in her green eyes. She's holding something back.

"I uh yeah, but it's just for work." I couldn't help the frown which appeared on my face from her unsure answer.

"Really? I thought you weren't working overtime anymore?" I pull back slightly surprising her, suddenly feeling uncomfortable.

"I'm not. It's just for a while. It's been busy at the company." She says a little disturbed.

"You're lying." I wanted to say. But I don't. Instead, I nodded meekly.

"Hey, don't worry about it, why do you seem so disturbed by it?" Avery asks reaching for my hand. I bit my lip, looking away. Why are you lying, Avery? Is there something you're not telling me? Someone you're not telling me about?

"Darling?" she cups my cheek softly, tilting her head wanting me to answer.

"Are you cheating on me?" I blurted out, squeezing my eyes shut as my heart clenched with that possibility. I don't know why I thought about it. That's what happens, isn't it? When you start having kids and then one of them don't come home early and lie about it?

"What?" I snapped my head to Avery seeing the hurt on her face, immediately regretting my words. Fuck, what have I done?

"You think I'd do that? Why? How could you even think that?" she asked appalled now. I looked down ashamed. I'm so stupid, always so fucking stupid. She would never do this. She loves me.

"I don't know. I'm just scared." I say softly trying to reason what I said, my throat tightening.

"Babygirl." She whispers out in melancholy, her body moving closer to mine as if to comfort me, rubbing my cheek softly.

"I'm sorry," I mutter in a small voice, I always do this, ruin things. Ruin us.

"No, no, come here, hey, don't cry." She says to me, kissing my cheek and the corner of my lips. I give in and kiss her back, gripping her shoulders and then threading my fingers through her hair. I'm so sorry, I try to say through my kisses. I didn't want to hurt her, I was just insecure.

"Listen to me." I look up into her green eyes, how could I have ever doubted her? And of something so massive.

"I love you, Sam. I love you so much, I could never even think of anyone else, no one. You're all that I want, and always will want, you, you're my mate. I'd never do that to you." Avery says holding my waist to her now, our bodies together.

"Sorry." I start. She stops me instead.

"I'm sorry for coming home late. I was just planning something for our date tomorrow, it's been a while since we went out and I just wanted it to be a surprise that's why I couldn't tell you." Avery admits, softly, her fingers caressing the side of my face and my heart feels so guilty for what I said. I was just so consumed with negative thoughts and being insecure.

"Oh babe, I'm sorry. I didn't think.." I say at a loss of words.

"It's okay. I would be a little worried too if you got secretive, but you need to trust me okay? I'd never do that." I nodded at her words and leaned in to kiss her.

"I love you," I say pulling away from her as she nods, holding me tight. We sat there in the tub for an hour with the warm water, just holding each other, it was really nice. It's really important to put aside time for just us, especially now that we have Oliver.

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I'm so giddy, I was shaking almost. I don't think Sam has realized or if she did she never mentions it. We were in my car driving down to the beach. I just thought the beach would be the best place to propose to her since that was where I took her for her birthday, it was where we finally got to be together, where I asked her to be mine, where I promised her me, and today I'm gonna do it all over again, wanting to be her wife now.

Maybe I'm just love struck but Sam looks extra beautiful today. She was wearing a sleeveless dark green dress, some simple sandals, her bag, no jewellery besides the necklace and promise ring I got her, and my leather jacket over it. She looks absolutely perfect, honestly, I just lack the vocabulary to describe her now.

"Come on babe, tell me where we're going." She pouts turning to me, holding my thigh. I shook my head, unable to control my grin.

"We're reaching already love, why don't you wind your window down, you can hear it." She looks at me confused before doing so and we heard it, the waves. She turns to me with a huge grin on her face.

"We're at the beach! Babe! Oh my god, we should have brought clothes!" Sam got out excitedly making me chuckle. She's so cute, jumping in her seat.

"I packed them, we're staying for a night here don't worry," I say, glancing at her, my heart fluttering with how happy she sounds, this is what I live for.

"Wait, but Oliver.."

"Mum's taking him for the night, I arranged it with them don't worry baby," I say and she turns to me shaking her head.

"You really are amazing you know that Avery?"

"Nope, just really in love with you." She leans over to give me a kiss, whispering, "You really are."

I gave her a sweet smile as we parked the car and got out. I patted the ring in my pocket before taking our bags out and taking her hand in mine. She grips my hand and leaned into me.

"I love you, Avery, god, I really do," Sam says and I kiss her head in return.

"I love you, baby girl." She nuzzles into me as we walk down the beach, heading straight for the water, not bothering to put our things down. We stood there facing the almost dark ocean and sky, feeling the freedom we felt during her 18th birthday. I turn to her, tugging her to the place I had set up for tonight. My heart started racing even more now. My head is full of thoughts of how I was gonna do it. After dinner, near the water.

"Avery, oh my gosh..." I hear Sam mutter in awe beside me. I look at what I had done, yeah for a normal date I had outdone myself, but tonight wasn't a normal date, today was the day.

"Do you like it?" I ask looking at my girl, she nods a few times before turning to kiss me. Ah, damn, I get to kiss her my whole life? I'm such a lucky bastard. I dropped out bags and wrapped my arms around her waist, kissing back with all I was feeling tonight, but most importantly love.

"You're perfect, always, this is perfect." She mumbles softly in between kisses before I kiss her again, sucking on her lips, tasting her sweet breath, bringing my wolf out as I glided my hands over the curve of her ass and to her shoulders and neck.

"I gotta stop before I take you to our room," I say lustfully against her lips, glancing into her eyes, making her blush red.

We walk to our table, in the outside section of this small restaurant on the beach. I decorated it with lights and flowers and candles, just to make it perfect for later. A waitress came to serve us and that was how our night started.

"Look at the stars, babe." I broke my stare off from Sam's face and look at where her eyes were. Indeed there were so many stars out tonight, it just made this even more perfect. I remember somewhere around Sam's 19th birthday we went to the park and spent the night on a blanket under the stars, finding shapes and naming them.

"Beautiful aren't they?" she says again and I was already looking back at her, agreeing.

"Come on, let's walk," I say standing up and reaching my hand out to her, my hand reaching for the ring in my right pocking, my fingers fumbling with it.

"Food was so good, you always pick the best places, babe," Sam says falling into step with me as we're barefoot now and walking to the shore again.

"A foodie," I say simply, referring to myself, making her giggle. We reach the water and stood there with our feet in it, giggling like school girls as we try to balance ourselves as the wave brushed against us. Being with her always felt so free, and somehow that was the feeling I've been aching for my whole life unknowingly.

"Hey, Sam?" I got out softly as my heart started racing. I was doing this. Oh my goddess, please, please, please, please let her say yes. She was lying on my legs now as we sat a little higher on the beach. She hummed softly turning to me.