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Chapter 10

On arriving at the beach house, Nate operated the lift on the van and followed Annie up the ramp, opened the front door and led her through to the kitchen. Leaving briefly for their luggage, Nate was soon back arranging the groceries in the fridge and chatting about their appointment the following day. He pulled out a series of brochures from a bag and placed them on the dining table to read through over dinner. Annie left him to put dinner in the oven and blew into the straw to move her chair over to the table. She pulled the chair up as close as possible to the table and looked at the brochures. Nate brought over a glass of cranberry juice with a long straw and left it on the table for her to drink. She was just able to reach her head forwards enough to grasp the straw with her lips and take a small sip.

“Do you think you got enough brochures?” she chuckled at the stack of a dozen or so in front of her.

“There were more than that, but I threw some out,” he grinned. “They were for manual chairs, which I figure aren’t going to be of any interest.”

“Definitely not, though we may need a back-up manual just in case anything happened to my powerchair.”

“There are some for other equipment as well, like hoists, environmental controls and useful gadgets.”

“You will have to help me look through them later.”

“My pleasure as always, Nate replied with a grin. He left the oven and made his way to the table. He took off his jacket and put it on the back of a dining chair, removing the small ring box from the pocket.

“I have some news,” Annie announced.

Nate looked at her expectantly, meeting her gaze with loving eyes. “Go on.”

“I just heard today that old man Brown is retiring at Christmas,” from her smile it was evident that she was thrilled at this news.

“Does that mean…..?”

“Yep, senior partner.”

“Congratulations, honey,” he looked thrilled for her. “That’s great news.”

They chatted while dinner cooked, Nate holding out the brochures for Annie to look through. Nate’s arms were beginning to ache after a while. “I think we need one of these,” she nodded at the page they were currently on. Nate looked at the item in question.

“A reading rack with automatic page turner,” he mused. “Useful, you might need two actually. One for home, one for work.”

“Three even, one here as well,” she added with a smile.

Nate put down the catalogue and looked at Annie. He gave her a broad smile and put his hand on his pocket where the ring was stashed away. “Let’s go down to the beach for a while,” he stood and watched as she nodded in agreement.

Nate led the way to the deck and then prepared to transfer Annie to the beach chair. He released her from the powerchair and cradled her in his arms gently, then lowered her to the seat, careful to prevent her from slipping or falling. He lifted her arms onto the rests, fastened a strap around her chest and lifted her legs into place. Pushing her down the ramp, Nate checked again for the ring in his pocket, reassuring himself that it was still where he had secretly stashed it. They neared the ocean, feeling the cool breeze as the evening sun went down over the horizon. Putting the brakes on the wheelchair, Nate crouched beside his lover and took hold of her nearest hand.

Annie glanced down at the sight of her numb and paralysed hand as Nate held it in his own. She had no sensation whatsoever in the limb and wondered what the rest of her life would be like with her body permanently in this state.

“You know how much I love you, don’t you?” Nate spoke with his expressions as well as his voice. Annie nodded her reply, the only real movement she could make. “Since we started to spend time together, I realised that I want to spend the rest of my life with you,” Nate went on. “So would you do me the honour of becoming my wife?”

He pulled the ring box from his pocket and opened it for Annie to see.

She gasped in admiration at the beautiful solitaire diamond set in platinum but also at the unexpected proposal. She hesitated for barely a second before accepting Nate’s offer of marriage.

Nate took her left hand and straightened her ring finger so he could slip the ring on for her. Annie watched as he gently wiggled the ring into place. “It’s such a gorgeous diamond,” she breathed. “Perfect. Just like this is a perfect place and a perfect moment.”

Nate reached across his fiancés body and took hold of her. Leaning in, he kissed her deeply, feeling her respond to his advance. They explored each others mouth for a few moments and then broke, to head back to the house. As he pushed the chair back up the ramp, Nate ran his fingers through Annie’s hair. She quivered as his fingers ran over her scalp, the sensations intensified by the numbness of the rest of her body.

After they had eaten dinner, Nate stacked the dishwasher and they settled for a drink on the deck watching the waters edge creep up the sand as the tide came in. Annie’s left hand was intertwined with Nate’s right on the armrest of the powerchair.

“Have you made your final decision about when you want to make this permanent?” Nate asked her.

“I think I will do it after I take over as senior partner, I just haven’t figured out the story I am going to use to cover myself. How I can I explain away suddenly becoming quadriplegic overnight with no accident or illness to cause it?”

Nate sat in thought for a while. “I think we could stage an accident, maybe a fall or something.”

Annie spent some time thinking about what Nate had suggested. “We need to think about it some more before making anything permanent.”

“A good idea,” Nate considered for a moment. “After all, what’s the hurry?”

Annie smiled at him. “I am in no hurry to go anywhere.”

Nate followed Annie as she blew gently into the control straw for the wheelchair and led the way to their bedroom. Entering the en-suite, Annie stopped beside the toilet. Nate leaned over and kissed her before reaching down and removing her leg bag.

“I can’t believe you are happy to do that,” she nodded towards the now full plastic bag he was emptying down the bowl.

“I don’t mind helping you if it means you’re happy.”

“I think it would make me feel better if you didn’t have to do so much for me.”

“It’s no problem,” Nate smiled reassuringly at her.

“But if I am like this all the time, you would get fed up of it. Especially as taking care of me is so time consuming, it would virtually be a full-time job.”

“You may be right, but with our incomes, we can afford some help. We can hire someone to help you during the day when I am at work.”

“That’s a lot to think about as well. Needing help all day with everything.” He stood up after reattaching the bag to her calf. “I can’t even feel the tube inside me.”

“Do you want to be able to feel it?”

Shaking her head, Annie replied. “No, it was sort of uncomfortable that first time, and frustrating as anything to feel but not move. I prefer this, at least I’m not feeling pain or pinching.”

“What about feeling me making love to you?”

“That was what I was worried about last time, before I had made up my mind about this. I was afraid that I wouldn’t get any pleasure out of lovemaking, but I felt something I never have before. Not something I felt before, different but beautiful at the same time.”

“Let’s put that to the test shall we?” Nate winked and kissed her deeply, then replaced the straw at her lips. Reaching forwards as much as her condition allowed, Annie grasped the straw in her lips and reversed out into the bedroom. Once alongside the bed, she used the menu to instruct the chair to recline. As she sipped at the straw, the chair began to flatten and she felt her head lean into the rest. Once flat, she waited whilst Nate unfastened the straps which had held her useless body in place. Annie leaned her head to the side trying to see what he was doing because she couldn’t feel it. He was currently removing her shoes, which she could just see from her prone position. Eventually, he removed the chest strap, the last thing holding her down. Nate was now able to lift her from the chair, but unfastened her slacks and shirt first. He lifted her shoulders free of the shirt and carried her to the bed, placing her on the waiting absorbent pad, half-dressed in just her bra and slacks. The remainder of her clothes were soon stripped off and she lay naked apart from the leg bag, even her diaper had been removed.

Nate kneeled above her so she could see what he was doing. He raised her flaccid foot to his lips and began to kiss her, a long string of lazy brushes rising along her leg to her hip. Here he nipped at the slightly reddened crease caused by sitting in the same position all evening. He looked up at her and grinned as she began to breathe a little quicker.

“You are so sexy,” he breathed. “Your skin is so soft.”

“What does it feel like?” she asked.

“It feels like velvet,” he replied, continuing to spray kisses across her abdomen. He stuck his tongue in her belly button.

“Its so weird being able to see you touch my skin and not feel any of it physically. I can’t believe that you can just do this by hypnotising me.”

“You are pretty easy to put under now.”

“Will you be able to put me under so it can’t be undone?”

“I think so, especially as its something you want, it wouldn’t work if you weren’t open to suggestion anyway.”

“You mean, I must have wanted this for you to be able to do it?”

“Sort of, nothing specific but if you aren’t open to the idea of hypnosis, I doubt it would work so well.” He trailed his tongue in a line from her navel to her breasts.

She inhaled as she saw him massage her breasts. “I can’t feel your hands but it looks so sexy.” Nate played with her breasts, her hands, legs, all the parts of her body that were numb for ages, making her more and more aroused until she couldn’t stand it any more. “Please come up here and touch me where I can feel you,” she begged him. “You’re driving me crazy.”

He grinned wickedly. “Mission accomplished then,” his soft, deep voice replied. He once again trailed kisses along her arm until he reached her neck. He sensed a sharp intake of breath as he crossed the line at her collar bone where she could sense his touch. He nuzzled the hollow above, teasing her with his tongue as she craned her neck. Nate knew that if it had been possible, her whole body would have been writhing around with the intensity of her arousal. Instead only her neck and a small twitch of muscle in her shoulders showed how much she was feeling at that moment. He lifted her arm and kissed her fingertips, then trailed her lifeless fingers across her neck. She saw her own hand being used to heighten her arousal still further.

Eventually he lifted her head with his strong fingers, bringing their mouths together in a crush of lips and tongues. Her response was greedy to engage in the only form of sexual contact that she could dictate; a kiss.

Nate was panting, his erection at full mast by the time he lay her head back onto the pillow. He lifted her limp legs and folded them back to allow him easy access and plunged his cock inside her numb sex. The rhythmic slapping of their joined bodies drew an equally rhythmic breathing pattern from Annie as Nate came closer and closer to eruption. Eventually, trying to hold on as long as possible, Nate came explosively as Annie squealed with pleasure.