Page 289 of Champagne Nights

Six Months Later

We were at Henry’s parents’house for dinner and to go over some things for the wedding. I could tell Henry was in a bad mood when he walked through the door. Not only was it chaos at the office, but a deal fell through he’d been working on over the past few months.

We were discussing the wedding cake and table favors in the living room. Henry was a little too involved as far as I was concerned, but I just went with the flow. As he and Lillian were arguing about the flavor of the wedding cake and what type of frosting should be on it, I turned my device off and smiled. Carlyle saw what I’d done and smiled at me.

“Superpower, sweetheart. Superpower,” he signed.

“Did you just say to her ‘superpower?’” I read Henry’s lips as he looked at his dad. “What do you mean by that? What does he mean?” Henry turned to me, and Carlyle gave me a wink.

Henry stared at me for a moment with a narrowed eye and then started talking, but I couldn’t make out what he was saying because it seemed like gibberish.

“I knew it! You turned off your device!” he signed.

I looked at him as I bit down on my bottom lip, and he slowly shook his head at me.

Henry

I stared into the eyes of my beautiful wife as we shared our first dance together as a married couple. It was the happiest day of my life, other than the first time I saw her in the grocery store's produce section.

After celebrating our wedded bliss, we flew to Paris for a two-week honeymoon. Our son, Theo David Walker, was born a year and a half later.

I’d often thought about how my life could have been different if I hadn’t walked into that grocery store that day. I never would have met Ellie, and I would most likely still have been living a life of unhappiness and misery. But now, my world and my life were complete. There was nothing between the two of us that was ever left unspoken.

At times, Ellie would secretly turn off her device when she’d heard enough from me. That was her superpower, and as much as it annoyed the hell out of me, I loved her even more. She was my wife, lover, and best friend, and the reason I smiled every day. She and our son completed me in ways I never thought were possible, and I would do anything to protect what was mine.

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