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The Confrontation a JOVAN Story    REVISED

Chapter 10                  The Cease Fire 

With my red pencil skirt, leather print blouse with the first few buttons unbuttoned to show enough cleavage and a bit of my black lace bra, black stilettos and my hair hanging loosely down my back and briefcase in hand for these negotiations I make my way to the police station.  Just as I approach the outer hall one of the officers stop me and asked if I am here for night court because they haven’t arrested anyone tonight.  I tell him know but I do have an important meeting to attend at this moment.  He leaves and I proceed to knock on John’s door.  I hear him say to come in and so I do.  Opening the door and closing it I stand there with my back to the door and place my briefcase on the ground and settle into the sexiest stand that I can think of.  John is working on his computer when I walk in and isn’t aware that it is me.  When he looks up and sees me his eyes open wide and he stutters,

“What, what are you doing here?  Oh my goodness you look beautiful.”

Then he just sits there looking at me as if he doesn’t know what else to do.  It is the perfect reaction.  I walk slowly to his desk and stand before it, then bend over towards him making sure that he gets a full view of what I’m bringing and I say in the breathiest and sexiest voice I can muster,

“I’m here to negotiate a cease fire with you.  Are you amenable to negotiating with me?”

If I had not seen it for myself I would never have known that John could turn that shade of pink.  His cheeks flush, his pupils dilate so wide I can’t see his iris, his nostrils flare and he has goose bumps on his arms and he doesn’t say one word.  Next thing I know he is pinching himself and shaking his head as if to wake himself up from a dream. Inside I’m laughing up a storm but outside I remain cool and calm.  Turning around, walking back to retrieve my briefcase, and bending over again but this time so that he has a unobstructed view of my rear, which is snugly enclosed in this pencil skirt, I return to stand before his desk and ask,

“Don’t you have an answer to my question Lieutenant?”

John still sits at his desk but now with his mouth open and eyes still open wide looking as if he’s still trying to determine if he is dreaming. Then he does something completely unexpected, he gets up from his desk goes to the other door of his office, opens it, calls for an officer.  When the officer arrives John says the oddest thing,

“Officer Stanton please come in my office for a moment I need your assistance with something.  Is there someone in my office?

The officer steps in to the office and sees me and then looks at John and guessing that this is some kind of game that the two of us are playing says,

“Yes Lieutenant there is someone in your office, Attorney Williamson.  I guess you lose the game sir.”

“Thank you Officer Stanton that will be all.”

Officer Stanton leaves and John returns to this office and closes the door.  Once back in the office he stands and just stares at me.  Now I’m getting a bit worried because I don’t know what he will do next.  So I decide to increase the stakes.  Putting my briefcase on this desk I walk up to him and stand right in front of him so that he has nowhere to look but at me.  And as if purring I whisper to him,

“You have not answered my question John and time is quickly ticking away at this offer. It is a one time offer with no renewal options.”

And just when I think he will not respond he once again does the unexpected.  He kneels before me, takes my hand and says,

“I surrender. I surrender my heart to you, I surrender my love to you, and I surrender me to you.  I surrender completely to you Evangeline.”

Pulling on his hand I help him to stand and he looks at me and I can see the sincerity and the love in his eyes.  He takes my face in his hands and kisses my forehead, my cheeks, my nose and lastly my lips.  It’s not his old all consuming kiss, instead it is a tender, sweet, I cherish you kind of kiss and it is as if we melt into each other.

“I didn’t think that I would ever get to kiss you again or to hold you again.  You take my breath away Evangeline. Before I forget what are you wearing, it must be new because I have never seen this outfit before? Well maybe not new to you but definitely new to me.  You look fantastic.”

“Glad that you like my outfit.  So what do we do now John?”

“Whatever you want to do Evangeline.  You have to tell me what to do.  I said it in the letter and I will say it to you now, I want to marry you Evangeline.  I want you to be my wife and for me to be your husband but you have to tell me if that is what you want.”

“But you haven’t asked me John so how can I answer?”

“Do you mean that really all I have to do is ask?”

“You won’t know that unless you ask.”

John releases my hand and goes to his desk and takes something out and returns to stand before me.

“Evangeline with all of my heart I love you.  I thank you for giving me a chance for a life with you.”

Then kneeling again before me he opens his hand to reveal a ring box.  It is a beautiful ring.

“”Evangeline will you marry me. Will you spend your life with me?”

“Yes John, yes I will marry you and will spend my life with you.  I love you John.  I didn’t think that I would ever say that to you again but I do love you.”

“Thank you, thank you.  I love you Evangeline with everything in me.”

Placing the ring on my finger he stands and kisses me but this time it is the smoldering, all consuming kiss that gives me goose bumps. The kiss seems to go on forever and we both relish in it.  He leads me over to the couch and we sit and just hold each other.

“Who would have thought we would end up here?  Not too long ago I was ready to ‘knock you out’ about Christian Vega’s identity and look at us now.”

“We’ve changed since then Evangeline.  I’m not that man anymore, thank goodness and you’re not that woman. You didn’t have as much to change as I did. In a way the confrontation was a wake up call for me and put me on the road to renewal so I guess that I should thank you for blasting me that day.”

“You are welcome, I aim to please.”

“No I’m serious you really helped me to see the error of my ways and I thank you for it. You are the best thing that has happened to me now we have a lifetime ahead of us.”

“Yes we do so let me let you get back to work.  Negotiations are now over.”

“No you don’t get away that easily.  I think that I will leave for the evening and take my fiancée home to make sure that she arrives safely.”

“John there is one thing about the engagement that we need to discuss …”

“I already know what you will say.  NO SEX before the wedding.  I agree.”

“You do?”

“Yes I do. We will have a beautiful wedding, go on a great honeymoon and have fantastic sex then.  I can wait.”

“That’s good to know.  So will we go to London and Paris for our honeymoon?  You did say that you wanted us to see them together.”

“Sure that sounds like a good plan.  We will need at least two weeks off to make it worthwhile.”

“That can be arranged as soon as I know when we will go.  Come on take me home my fiancée we have a lot to talk about.”

“Yes we do. I am so happy.  I never thought that I would ever be happy again but you have made me so happy Evangeline I just want to shout for joy.”

“As do I. Come on let’s walk to Angel Square and give a shout there.  If we don’t shout too loud no one will be the wiser but I have this bubbling inside of me too and need to let it out.  Come on.”

So we walk hand in hand to the park and shout for joy for the marvel that is our love.  From a confrontation we have progressed to a cease-fire and the end of the war that we waged between us.  Now our efforts we will spend on planning our wedding and living our lives together in holy matrimony.