Free That One Time by Marian Tee Page B

park offered two types of cable cars – the standard one had a pair of benches placed across each other while the more expensive crystal cabin had a completely transparent floor but no seats.  
    “Are you sure?” Nic had to ask. It was twice the cost of the standard cable car.  
    She nodded, a discomfited look on her face.  
    It puzzled him, but Nic managed to refrain from asking until they were safely ensconced inside the cable car. He looked at her and was stunned to see her turn a little green. “Are you all right?”
    She nodded, slowly.
    “Ayah…” He had a nasty feeling about this. Nic’s gaze narrowed. “Are you by any chance scared of heights?”
    She smiled weakly. “A little?”
    He groaned. “Why the hell did we ride this then?”
    “It’s the best way to get to the park,” she answered simply.  
    Exasperation lined his tone as he growled, “I’m not going to enjoy myself while you look like that.”
    “It’s just the first few minutes…”  
    Without a word, he lowered both of them to the transparent floor and settled her on his lap. She quickly snuggled closer to him. “Tell me a story?”
    Nic rolled his eyes. “Why am I not surprised you asked me that?”
    “Please?”
    “And that you’re saying please?”
    “Just one.”
    He chuckled. “We both know that’s a lie.” But even so, he started to speak, and when he did, what he said surprised both of them. “When we get married, will you live with me in Europe?”
    It was the first time she heard him open the subject about their wedding and married life together, and her heart was filled with so much love for him that she had to…
    Nic grunted in pain when she practically strangled him with her embrace.  
    Laughing, Ayah released him. “Sorry.” But she sounded more giddy than apologetic, making him roll his eyes. And yet, he was grinning, too, which made Luuk even more handsome. He was dressed in another three-piece suit, and she loved how he could make something so terribly formal seem like it was normal clothing for him. She wondered if it was a European thing, but she had a feeling it wasn’t.
    Luuk was just the kind of man who would look good in any kind of clothing simply because he knew he was that kind of man and wasn’t afraid to show it.
    He raised a brow at her. “Are you planning to answer my question?”
    Oh! She said without hesitation, “Wherever you want to live is okay with me.”
    “But what about your life here?”
    “I can always visit them.” She shyly kissed him on the lips. “I want to live with you .”
    He sighed.
    It was an odd kind of sigh, like she did something wrong. “What is it?”
    “Do you still feel queasy?”
    “No. It’s passed.” Most probably because of the excitement. She had been worried that she had somehow jumped the gun, but his words earlier had assured her she hadn’t. He really wanted to marry her. It was insta-love between them all the way, she thought dreamily. She took one look at him and fell in love without planning to. And now, a year after, he took one look at her and proposed marriage, probably without planning to.
    Ayah smiled to herself. Most likely he had no plans to, she thought, since he didn’t even have a ring when he proposed.
    “Are you sure?”
    “Yup.”  
    “Good.”
    In an instant, he was on his knees while he had her propped up on one corner. She looked down at him in confusion, but before she could ask him what he was doing Luuk had already flipped her skirt up. Ayah squeaked in surprise, but her squeak turned into a shriek when he disappeared inside her skirt.
    “Luuk!” She glanced around them in a panic. She knew they were alone and thousands of feet above sea level, but – there were cable cars returning at the other line and there were also cable cars in front and behind them. What if they had binoculars? Surely they would see—
    “Relax.” He nuzzled her lace-covered flesh.
    Luuk was pushing her legs apart widely, forcing her to