The Heiress Nobody Saw Coming (Natalie and Marcus) novel Chapter 603

The next day, Natalie and Marcus woke up as usual, guided by their biological clocks. Natalie lay in Marcus' arms in an intimate embrace.

"Good morning," Marcus' deep, husky voice sounded in her ear, carrying a trace of sleepiness. "Did you sleep well?"

Natalie kept her eyes closed for a moment longer before nodding lightly in his embrace. "I did. What about you?"

"I did too," Marcus replied, smiling slightly.

After his shower last night, Natalie hadn't asked him anything else about Sheldon. Instead, they had simply gone to bed together, engaging in the intimacy of married life.

He had always thought of himself as not being overly driven by desire, but reality had proven him wrong. Natalie indulged him, and sometimes he found it hard to control his impulses.

"My mom set up an appointment for me to try on wedding dresses today. Are you free?" Natalie asked, resting against Marcus, neither of them in any hurry to get up.

The feeling of just lying together and talking was comforting.

"I remember you having things to do today," she continued. "How about I go pick out the wedding dress on my own? Once you're done with work, you can meet me afterward. How does that sound?"

Marcus grinned, hugging Natalie tighter. "You've already planned everything, so can I even say no?"

He didn't want to get out of bed at all. "Nat, I don't want to work. I just want to stay like this, holding you."

"That's not happening," Natalie teased, poking his abs. "Don't forget what you promised me."

"I haven't forgotten," Marcus mumbled against her shoulder. "I just don't want to leave you. Nat, I feel like we never had a real honeymoon phase."

They had skipped past dating and gone straight to marriage.

"We're in it right now." Natalie chuckled. "Isn't this what being in love looks like?"

"But you're still making me go to work," Marcus mumbled, lifting his head to look at her. "If you really loved me, you'd cling to me and refuse to let me leave. Or at the very least, you'd come with me and keep me company at the office."

"You know I'm not that kind of person," Natalie said, playfully pinching his ear. "I want our wedding to be perfect. Once it's done, we'll have all the time in the world to ourselves.

"I'll pick out the wedding photos and send them to you. Meanwhile, you can finish up at Holden Group. Then, we'll take the photos together. That way, everything stays on schedule."

Marcus sighed, tightening his arms around her. "I don't think that's a good plan. Nat, I'll have my father step in for me at work for a few days. He hasn't been around for years. He didn't fulfill his duty as a father, nor as a son.

"Now that Mom is better, he has no excuse to neglect his responsibilities anymore. He's at the perfect age to take charge. What do you think?"

Natalie chuckled. "Yeah, that makes sense. Go talk to him, then we can go look at the wedding dresses together."

"Alright. I'll go now," he said.

Marcus kissed Natalie's forehead and held her a little more before reluctantly letting go. "You can sleep a bit longer."

Natalie sat up, running her fingers through her hair before flashing him a small smile. "I'm already up. Do I look like a mess?"

"No," Marcus said with a grin. "My wife looks beautiful."

Natalie blinked in surprise. Since their marriage, this was the first time he had called her his wife. Before, it had seemed like the words wouldn't come, but now he said them so naturally.

"Shocked?" Marcus teased, pinching her cheek with a fond smile.

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