She stood there, astonished and totally at a loss for words. Her eyes glistening and trying hard to catch her breath, she was focused intently on the lips that had just spoken unbelievable words to her.
“I don’t know what to say.”

“Well if wewe need suggestions,” yes would certainly be my choice of words.

I don’t know what……… We have always pushed each other’s buttons. That hasn’t always led to the best end results.

“I don't know about that." I wouldn't be here on my knees proposing a life of insanity. I wouldn't know what it is like to hold a dream in my hands.

House I have two children now and I have to think it through. wewe have never been that 9 to 5 guy, the one who takes the trash out, comes nyumbani and plays with the kids while I get chakula cha jioni, karamu fixed.

“Is that the guy wewe want?”

It’s the guy I need. It’s the guy the children need.

He stood up and pulled her into his arms. I am not the logical choice but I am the right choice. From the first time I saw you, wewe never left my thoughts and I am betting I never left yours. I am what wewe want Cuddy. Cuddy I’ll make mistakes and I’ll try your patience but I promise to be a father to “our” children.

“A leap of faith” was the only thing standing between them and all the things that weighted them down. An admission that they really were destined for each other could set them free. A desire answered and a longing not put off any longer kwa what “might” go wrong.

He pushed strands of hair behind her ears and as he stroked her face and his fingers moved to her lips and began to trace them out. He kissed her softly as he continually let his lips sweep back and forth over hers until they had Lost themselves to another world. It was as if they were the only two people in the world.

Twenty-five years of banter, button-pushing, partnership, sparring, angst, lying, scheming, and lust had brought them to this moment; a love, a friendship, and a surrender of wills for a chance at something better; a life together.

He pulled her into the bedroom where he began to undress her. His hands slid down her waist to the hem of her shati as he lifted it over her head. Undressing her, making upendo to her felt like the first time every time.

For her his touch was like electricity and his intellect still intrigued her. He was the sexiest man she ever knew, the greatest challenge she had ever had, and he was so far inside her moyo she knew she would never be able to get him out.

As they wrapped their self around each other he stopped and looked at her.
“I could withhold sex wewe know Cuddy.”

As she moved into him just a little more; “ yeah like that is ever going to happen.” House, "blackmail is not a virtue I embrace." Lisa Cuddy House; that sounds a little strange, “don’t wewe think?”

It does sound a little scary. Maybe I should rethink this whole thing.

She placed a kiss on his neck and moving slowly to his chest as she tightened around him. “Are wewe withdrawing your offer?”

He took a gasp in as he labored to get the words out, “not a chance.”
He pulled her up into a sitting position as they both released sounds of pleasure and as their kisses were beyond anything describable he spoke the words one zaidi time. Lisa Cuddy, “marry me.”

She grabbed both sides of his face and as their eyes were glaring into each other and the feeling for each other so overwhelming, “she alisema the words over and over again. Yes I will marry you!! Yes I will marry you!!!

They held on tight to this moment. Years of moments, situations, circumstances, anger, pain, forgiveness, and upendo had brought them together.

As they awoke the inayofuata morning to a crying baby and a very hungry four mwaka old they felt a wholeness that neither has ever really ever known. They took turns getting showers as they awaited Marina’s arrival and with the baby in his arms and Rachel at his heels he realized he had never been happier.

They rode to the hospital together as they were Lost in their own thoughts planning their schedules for the inayofuata couple of days. He had to get packed for Mexico and try to close his cases out at the hospital. They had to get ready for a chajio, chakula cha jioni with their mothers and now a wedding. “A wedding.” They both had a smile come across their face as they arrived at the hospital.

He glanced in her direction and saw that sexy smile lighting up her face. “You must be thinking about me.” I am the only one that can bring that look across your face.

“She laughed just a bit as she looked at him with that glare that always cut through to the core of him. Just like no woman can ever make wewe feel what I can make wewe feel. wewe know I can meet wewe on the roof at lunch if wewe need to be relaxed and release some tension. We don’t want wewe to get all tense.

“You are an evil woman.”

Yeah I was made for you, “ wasn't I?”

“Oh yeah.”