"Some may call you wanton for the way you've offered yourself to me ever since we met each other, but I don't. Sure you want to experience my touch and possession of you, but it goes deeper doesn't it?" I asked rhetorically.
"You're desperate! Desperate to not be alone. You've never had anyone that truly stuck around before have you? Well now you have me and I'm never going to leave you Keturah!"
She took another step, as I fished around for what to say next.
"Companionship and the loving touches of a mate are beyond wonderful on a daily basis, but all those positive feelings and loving touches have a way of paying dividends. Tell me Keturah do you want to feel what it's like to have a new life of a special baby boy or girl take form and grow within your womb?"
"Yes!" She screamed out unknowingly clutching at her lower abdomen in time with her declaration. She'd taken two steps forward and now a third one.
"I bet you do! I bet you ache to share your loving and nurturing spirit with children of your own so that you can give them the love, attention, and security that you never had as a child."
She kept walking now.
"A committed relationship for life, between a man and a woman is a special thing, but it really steps up a notch when children become a part of the bond you already have with your mate. Two of the proudest moments of my life were the births of my daughters, Keturah. I want to experience moments like that again. I want to experience those moments with you, just-very-special-you, Keturah."
She started to run to me then, but stopped with a gasp, as she looked down to see her bare feet in the kicked up dry sand of the beach. She looked up at me in shocked surprise and I held out my arms to her, "Don't stop now honey! Not when my love is waiting to share the rest of my life with you!"
She launched forward into my arms and almost knocked me over backwards into the sand. I held her as her arms clamped around me like a vise even as she shook me from the force of her emotional sobs.
I kissed her ear, as she stood with her head buried against my chest sobbing and said, "You'll never be alone again and neither will I!"
Her face tilted back to reveal her teary eyes full of more joy than I'd ever seen in any person's eyes before, "I love you Eli!" She said with a passionate depth of meaning.