In the relatively low-key living room, with a dim light shimmering down in circles. One double settee and two single davenports with a steel tea table in the middle. The navy-blue curtains were accurately matching the lush carpet placed on top of the ceramic tiled floor.
On one of the single couches, there sat Xavier in his briefs and his laptop on his thighs. The television was on, but he seemed to be engrossed with what he was doing.
Seconds later, he lifted his head from the laptop and then reached over to carry the coffee cup on the table. However, his eyes met with the TV screen and what was exhibited at that moment made his heart shatter into a million pieces.
It was Jasmine and Noah on the screen, entangled together with their lips in rhythm.
*After several years of being a single father, it was revealed that multimillionaire Noah Cooper proposed to a woman of his dreams at his daughter's birthday tonight, *
Xavier read the caption, and the laptop instantly plunged from his lap. He slowly rose to his feet and, with shaky legs, he moved closer to the TV and read the caption over and over again.
This time, the silver ring on Jasmine's finger was now in connection with the camera and kept dazzling.
Xavier held his chest as he collapsed to the floor. His heart hurt so much, that it felt like someone was tearing it apart with a saw.
His lower lips quivered while tears pooled in his eyes, “Jas…mine,” he sputtered in a broken voice.
Jasmine nestled in Noah's chest as they both lay down on his king-sized bed and watching themselves on the TV screen with a broad smiles on their faces.
“It's the best day of my life thus far,” Jasmine pronounced, as a matter of fact, sitting upright and peering into Noah's handsome face.
They were both in their night dresses.
Noah also sat up and gently held her hands in his, “Thank you for accepting me fully into your life, I love you,”
Jasmine's smile broadened, as she leaned over and pecked his lips lightly.
“Good night, darling,” Jasmine told him and made to crawl out of the bed, but her wrist was caught and held back.
“Where are you going?” Noah interrogated with furrowed brows.
“To my room, of course,” Jasmine replied almost immediately, and Noah's brows furrowed even deeper.
“Not anytime soon, sweetheart,” he said with a broad wink while his brows permeated with evil.
Jasmine's face immediately became red and even her neck was blushed, she looked like a well-cooked shrimp.
Suddenly, Noah reached out and buckled her waist and then made a flip. She was pressed to lie under him while he crouched above her.
They stared deeply into each other's eyes, and Jasmine nodded as if she understood the underlining meaning in Noah's eyes.
It seemed that was all Noah needed because in the next moment, he had taken Jasmine's lips in his and they both willingly drowned in the fog of love clasped over them.
The joy that she tried so hard to tame filled her soul as his lips moved hotly against hers.
Noah ran his hand over her soft curves, moving his mouth over hers until she gave in with a low moan. Her brain melted in a puddle of heat and sensation. She thought, her mind went whirling away on the fingers of the storm wind that engulfed her.
Her bones seemed to turn to water… boiling water. His hand moved along her hip to hold her more intimately against him as his tongue teased her lips apart.
Jasmine succumbed to the hunger driving her and savored the taste of him as he deepened the kiss. He stroked her hip and his sex hardened against her stomach.
The heat emanating from his body to hers ignited a flame inside her stronger than anything she'd felt before with him.
Without breaking off the kiss, Noah fitted her legs on either side of his thighs and kissed the side of her neck, making her squirm.
In what felt like seconds, Noah had completely taken off her lingerie and was now pressing kisses down the delicate line of her neck and also to the upper slopes of her breasts.
Jasmine bites her lip to keep a mewl of exquisite agony from erupting, drowning in a sea of more pleasure than she could ever imagine existed.
Her hands flew to his neck, holding him close to her. She hummed out, wanting to feel his hardness already.
Noah came up again, his mouth hovering for a tantalizing moment before his tongue teased and licked her over tight nipple.
He continued sucking her gently, gritting his teeth along, loving the sound that fell out of her mouth.
His eyes glistened as he pulled her panties down and off her legs completely, dropping them somewhere out of sight.
Jasmine was too overwhelmed to say anything as she sank her head back to the pillow.
*
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The bright morning sun permeated through the velvety curtain in the room and dwelled on Jasmine's radiant and beautiful face.
On her face, there was a pure smile prevailing on it as she stirred and adjusted the feather pillow against her head. She hummed softly in her sleep, stretching out her arms and legs on the comfortable bed.
Jasmine was still in her doze when the delicious aroma of coffee strike her nostril. With the way, the fragrance had replenished her surrounding, she knew this was not a dream, and she had to open her eyes now.
Gradually, she opened her eyes to the bright sun and shut her eyes back almost immediately.
She opened them again to see Noah gazing at her face with interest.
He looked crazily sexy, his rough hair basked in the sunlight, and sun rays streamed across his face.
He was smiling, not knowing his teeth were in contact with the sun that almost stole Jasmine's breath away.
“Good morning,” she greeted shyly, avoiding his gaze while she sat straight.
Noah snickered and sat close to her on the bed, “Don't tell me you're shy now after everything you did last night?”
Jasmine blushed terribly as last night's memories replayed in her head.
Noah loved to see her this way, so he continued, “Last night you were…”
Jasmine quickly covered his mouth with her palm, making his words blocked in his throat.
“I should get ready for work now,” Jasmine announced while she removed her hand and left the bed.
Stunned, “What do you mean work? You're going to leave me all alone at home? Look, I even brought you some coffee, but you didn't glance at it let alone drink from it,” Noah said his words in a breath while he pretended to be angered.
Jasmine put on an apology expression and moved toward the coffee on the nightstand and took a large gulp from it.
“I'm sorry, darling. But you know I have to go to work.” Jasmine told him while caressing his rough hair.
This simple gesture made him completely forget that he was actually pretending to be annoyed as he looked up at Jasmine's face with a wide grin.
“You'll go tomorrow, please,” he implored.
“No, baby, I've had enough break already,” Jasmine reminded him and got to her feet quickly after pecking his cheek.
“You prepare for work too while I go dress Aurora up,” Jasmine notified while walking to the door.
“No, I'm not going anywhere. I just want to stay at home all day with you, is it too much to ask?” Noah gave his cute puppy eyes and Jasmine almost gave in to his request as she watches his handsome from where he was standing.
“It's not too much, my love, but don't you think you're taking advantage of your position too often now?”
Jasmine raised this question for him to realize, but he didn't, all he wanted was for him and Jasmine to be curled up in each other's chest all day. Nothing more, nothing less.
When he wasn't saying anything again, Jasmine reckoned that he had understood her message.
“I love you,” she blew a kiss at him from the door, unlocked the door, and then took her pace out.
Two hours later, Noah's car was parking in the hospital garage. He had come to drop Jasmine off, his daily routine.
Jasmine leaned over and pecked his sexy thin lips, “Have a nice time at work, okay?”
She told him, her face full of smiles, but Noah wasn't reciprocating it as he continued to stare at Jasmine's face. His face was expressionless and hard to read.
The smile on Jasmine's face could no longer continue as she became worried.
“What happened? Have I done something wrong?”
Sighing, Noah looked forward and looked back at her face almost immediately.
“Do you wish to become a nurse forever?” he asked, looking more serious.
Jasmine knew he wasn't joking, so he answered immediately, “No. I wish to own a clinic that wouldn't be so substantial so that both the rich and the needy could afford any expenses,”
Noah didn't say another word, just staring at her face.
“I've always known I made the right choice,” he finally uttered and then held Jasmine's left hand that has the ring.
He pressed his lips on her hand for a moment and looked at her face again and said genuinely, “I love you,”
“Congratulations, nurse Jasmine”
These words kept coming out of every worker's mouth as soon as she entered the hospital.
It was obvious that everyone had watched the headlines and seen the hottest news that has been going viral on the TV channels and the internet.
*After several years of being a single father, it was revealed that multimillionaire Noah Cooper proposed to a woman of his dreams at his daughter's birthday tonight, *
“Oh my goodness… It's our beautiful nurse Jasmine,”
Jasmine smiled at the two nurses who suddenly approached her just when she was close to her station.
Looking at them, she didn't even recognize them, but it wouldn't be fair if she hurt their feelings.
“Thank you,” she told them warmly.
“You're so lucky, nurse Jasmine. Please tell us when the wedding invitation is out,” the second nurse put in as they both stared at Jasmine adorably.
Jasmine offered a loving smile and gave a nod, “I will,”
With that, they both scampered off gleefully that one would think they'd been given an invitation to the wedding already.
Jasmine reached her destination and puffed out a breath.
She had barely sat down when a knock came on the door.
“Come in,”
The door opened afterward and Xavier let himself into the office.
Jasmine's expression didn't change as she watched him walk over, her eyes never leaving his.
“Are you really engaged now?” he asked calmly, switching his gaze to the tiny ring that was shimmering on her finger.
Jasmine stood up from her seat and answered with a slow sheepish smile, “The last time I checked, the video has gone viral all over the net. So, I'm sure you would have probably seen it, Doctor Xavier,”
“Can you forgive me, Jasmine?” he spoke up immediately.
Jasmine's brows crinkled in a tight line, “What do you mean?”
“Forgive me, Jasmine. I really need you to forgive me,”