Page 268 of Forbidden Billionaires: Vol. 2
There were tears in Daphne’s eyes again.
He grabbed both her hands again. “I promised you that if you gave me your hand…I’d never let it go. And I’m here promising it again. Take this crazy leap with me. Let’s explore the world together. Let’s make a family. Let’s do life together. The two of us. All of us.” He laughed and looked over at his groomsmen. “My boys and I are kind of a package deal.”
Daphne nodded and removed one of her hands from his grip to wipe her eyes. “A family,” she said and kept wiping under her eyes. “I’ve so badly needed family. That’s what you are to me, you know. As soon as we met…I tried really hard to fight my feelings for you.”
“I know,” Rob said with a laugh.
“But you feel like home to me. I had a whole speech planned, but I just need you to know that one thing, Rob. You’ll always be home to me. Promise you’ll never let me go?”
Rob dropped his forehead to hers. “Not in a million years, baby.”
“You taught me what it was like to live again,” she continued. “That the best things are crazy and fast. You’re the best thing in my life. I owe you everything. I love you. Every piece of you. I waited my whole life for you, Robert Hunter.”
“Robert Hunter? We’re barely married, am I in trouble already?”
“That depends.” She blinked away the tears in his eyes. “Kiss me.” She tilted her head up to kiss him. His hands slid to her ass as he kissed her back.
The pastor cleared his throat.
I smiled when Rob and Daphne didn’t even care.
The pastor cleared his throat a little more. “Daphne, do you take Rob to be your lawfully wedded husband? To have and to hold until death do you part?”
Daphne pulled back. “I do. The easiest decision I’ve ever made.”
Rob reached out his hand and James handed him the rings. He slid one onto Daphne’s ring finger.
She smiled up at him.
“And Rob, do you take Daphne to be your lawfully wedded wife? To have and to hold until death do you part?”
“Damn right I do,” he said. He tossed Daphne the other ring and she almost dropped it.
She laughed as she slid it onto his finger.
“Then by the power vested in me by the state of Delaware, I now pronounce you husband and wife. Go ahead and kiss again already,” he said with a smile.
Rob smiled down at Daphne. “It’s the start of our love story,” he said. “Let’s make it memorable.” He grabbed Daphne’s hips and lifted her up. She wrapped her arms behind his back and her legs around his waist as their kiss turned sinful.
I cheered at the top of my lungs.
Rob threw his fist in the air as he continued making out with his new bride.
And everyone stood up from their chairs and started cheering too.
The gunshot rang out, and I stumbled backward. And ran straight into James’ hard body.
“It’s okay,” he whispered. “It’s just fireworks.” He pointed into the sky. The sun was just setting behind the trees. And another loud bang went off and the sky was ignited.
I hated the noise. I hated everything about it. I flinched when another went off.
James wrapped his arms tighter around me. “We’re okay.” He kissed the side of my neck. “I tried to talk Rob out of them, but he swore they were necessary.”
Rob would think they were necessary. As if their amazing vows weren’t enough to wow the guests.
I winced again.
“I’m right here,” James said. “I’ll always be right here.”
