A Free Love Story by Sky Taylor

Who Chopped Down the Family Tree? ~ continued

 

He smiled down at her, his eyes flashing - ignited with happiness.  "It might please you to know that we are not related."

 

"What?" she probed, shocked by his statement, as well as by his proclamation of love.

 

"Feeling so passionately about you, I too was consciously disturbed by the attraction.  So I did a bit of delving into our family history.  It started with the mirror."

 

"The mirror?" Cora asked, not wanting to get her hopes up just yet.  Oh how she hoped that Ruben was right!

 

"I look nothing like a Marshall.  Don't have the eyes, the nose, the lips - nothing about me mirrored the family traits.  Next, I had a long chat with my mother who proved to be quite tight-lipped at the beginning of our conversation," he eased out, remembering the day of their all-night chat.  "But when I relayed the intensity that I felt for you, she broke quite easily."

 

"What did she tell you, Ruben?" Cora coaxed a bit anxiously.

 

"Five years into my parent's marriage, Father was set on a baby and when mother visited the tropics during the last trimester of her pregnancy, she lost the baby shortly after arriving there."

 

"I-I don't understand, Ruben," Cora told him, still held tight in his warm embrace.

 

"I was the result of a quick adoption," he told her, Cora shaking her head as she found difficulty in digesting the information.  "In other words, we are quite free to love as mother chopped down the family tree."

 

"Is uncle aware-"

 

"Yes, and it nearly did him in when I told him the truth," he reflected, fond of his father and the close relationship they shared.

 

"Oh Ruben, perhaps you shouldn't have," Cora reflected, filled with concern over her beloved uncle.

 

"But I had to," he assured, his hand caressing the soft flesh of her face now.  "Otherwise, we wouldn't have received his blessing on our marriage."

 

The warmth of his kiss couldn't come fast enough for Cora's liking.....

 

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