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He closes his fist around the cufflinks. “And I’ll always be here. When we fight. When you can’t stand me. When you try to push me away. You’re it for me, Amelia. You’ll always be it.”
I swear, I will never get over the way he says things like that.
I lean in and press a kiss to his lips. “Thank you for loving me so well. For choosing me every single day. I will never stop choosing you back.” I spend a moment just looking at him. Taking in this man who is the very best man I know. And who I love with my entire soul. “I will never let you forget that you’re it for me too.”
CHAPTER 27
AMELIA
“Oh. My. God.”
Tim stares at me when he arrives at the greenhouse to walk me to the wedding ceremony. “Your face was PERFECT when you left me. What the hell did Gage do to you?”
Colin and the girls trail in after him, and my heart squeezes when I see Sarah and Luna. Their dresses billow around them as they walk. Soft ivory and blush layers that are flecked with gold thread that catches the light. The flower crowns on their heads are slightly crooked, but I’d never fix them. They’re perfect exactly how they are. However they are.
Luna twirls. “Tim said I look like a fairy princess.”
I stare at her for a beat too long, my vision going slightly blurry with tears. “You’re not just a fairy princess. You’re like...a celestial being. A star.” I pause, squinting at her. “Are you an actual star? Because you’re literally glowing right now. Like, actual light is coming off you.” I lean in closer. “Can you see it? The glow?”
Oh, god.That came out way more intense than I meant it to.
Luna takes a small step back and whispers to Sarah, “Is she okay?”
“I think she’s still really happy like she was this morning,” Sarah whispers back.
“Really,reallyhappy,” Luna adds, eyes wide.
I nod too enthusiastically. “I am. So happy. Normal amount of happy.” I hold up my hands. “I’m being so normal right now.”
Sarah giggles. “You’re being weird.”
“I know,” I admit, trying to pull myself together. “It’s been a very weird day.” I swallow the new round of emotions trying to ruin my makeup and focus on being normal. “You both look beautiful.”
Sarah beams. “Uncle Tim called us your flower angels.”
My heart splits wide open. I drop into a crouch and pull them both in. “Okay,” I choke out. “I already cried half my makeup off, and now you two are going to finish the job.”
Luna looks worried. “Are you mad at us?”
I laugh through my tears. “No, my darling. Super happy. The happiest person alive. Maybe in the universe. Do you think there’s happiness in space? I bet there is.”
Sarah’s brows furrow. She looks at Luna. “Adults are so strange. They sometimes cry when they’re happy.”
“My dad doesn’t do that,” Luna says, then shrugs. “Maybe it really is just a mom thing.”
Sarah contemplates that before nodding. “Yeah, I think so.”
“Okay,” Tim says, looking stressed as he places our bouquets on the couch and yanks open hisrolling makeup case. Seriously. Only my brother would treat a wedding like a touring Broadway production. “Nobody panic. I have everything we need to fix—” he looks at me and waves his hand in my direction “—this. Wait, who stole my blotting paper? COLIN!”
“Yeah, I needed it for all the crying I’m not doing.” Colin shakes his head. “What evenisblotting paper?”
Tim shoots him a glare. “This is not a drill, Colin. We are in DEFCON SMUDGE.” He looks at me. “Stay still. I am about to save your entire face and therefore the wedding.”
He rummages through his supplies as I accept my fate. “Why do I have three mascaras andzeroconcealer? WHO PACKED THIS?”
Colin rolls his eyes. “You did, diva.”
Tim eyes him. “Okay, wow, coming for me on her wedding day? Bold.”
