Page 63 of Crazy Love

So, we’re going with the love route. And honestly? It’s not that far-fetched. They know more than anyone how far gone I am over Addy.

We have quite a spread, and at the right moment, we’ll wheel out a beautiful wedding cake. Addy’s in a beautiful red dress that is knocking me sideways, and I’ve thrown a jacket over a black T-shirt and jeans so I match her a little better. I think it catches everyone off guard that we’re dressed up for this impromptu party.

I look around at my teammates. Even Addy’s best friend, Goldie, and Cam fucking Whitman are here. I smile smugly at the bastard. I can admit again how fucking handsome he is now that Addy is married to me.

“All right, listen up,” I say, clapping my hands together.

I reach out and take Addy’s hand, and the room falls to a hush. I smile over at her and everything inside me settles.

“We have an announcement to make,” I say, still looking at Addy. “As some of you know, I went to the Bahamas to celebrate with Bowie and Poppy…and I came home thinking about a girl named Addy. I met her and she turned my world upside down. I couldn’t forget her…and I couldn’t stop wishing for another chance with her. Here we are, months later, and I’ve been given that chance. I intend to let her know how I feel about her for the rest of our lives.” I lift up our hands, holding them up so her rings show, and hold up my other hand, ring finger out. There’s an audible gasp across the room. “We got married.”

Dead silence.

Someone drops a plate and it clatters, which makes my lips twitch. Rhodes blinks. Elle puts her hand up to her mouth. Bowie looks like he’s seen a ghost, and Poppy clutches her basketball stomach.

Then the freak-out begins.

“What?” Henley shouts, rushing toward us. “Are you—HOW?”

“Oh my God,” Sadie and Tru say at the same time.

Weston puts his hand on his chest and then staggers over to me. He and Henley hug me, and then we’re surrounded, everyone talking at once.

“What were you thinking?”

“Congratulations!”

“Were you drugged?”

That pulls me out of it and I turn to look around for whoever said it. “No, I was not drugged. Relax. I got married. And I’m happy about it.”

Weston throws his head back and laughs. “My God,” he gasps, wiping his eyes. “Adeline, you got the king of commitment issues to settle down. This is historic.”

“Itisshocking,” Henley says. “I need a drink.”

“I’m in shock, that’s what this is,” Rhodes says.

Bowie shakes his head, but he’s smiling. The dude has softened so much since meeting Poppy. “I just…have so many questions.”

Sam squeezes through and his head pops up between me and the guys. “Isn’t it the best news?”

“I mean, yeah. It’s phenomenal,” Rhodes says. “But you went from not even dating to married? I am shook. So happy, but shooketh.”

I rub the back of my neck. “I guess I just hadn’t met the right person before.”

Weston laughs again. “And you’ve gone soft, just like that. Happens to the best of us.”

“I’m not soft,” I argue, even though I know damn well I’m as soft as a marshmallow when it comes to Addy.

“Out of all the women you’ve ever met, Addy is the one,” Henley says, his eyes filling as he looks between the two of us. “Addy, we’ve always known that when Penn finally fell, he’d fall the hardest, and I have to say, before you ever even came back to Silver Hills, he was pining for the woman he met in the Bahamas. You got in his head from the very start.”

My cheeks heat and I look at Addy shyly. She’s smiling at me, her gaze not wavering. I reach for her again, needing her to anchor me again. “Yes, she got in my head for sure.”

“Pretty boy’s in love!” Henley yells. He wipes his eyes. “God, this is making me so emotional.”

Everyone laughs, but Rhodes and Weston are wiping their eyes too.

“Well, damn. Adeline Evans, you tamed Penn Hudson,” Rhodes says. “How does it feel?”

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