Page 13 of Swipe for a Cosmo
“Knew what?”
“The first moment I saw you, I think I knew it too—well, my heart did, anyway. I couldn’t stop looking at you.”
Pulling her in close, I kiss her roughly before dropping my forehead to hers. “I kinda noticed that.”
She giggles as she looks up at me. “You know everyone is gonna think we’re insane, right?”
I bounce a shoulder. “Let them, because we won’t have time to care. Right now, we’ve got a wedding to pull together, and tomorrow, well, I think you can guess what we’ll be busy doing after that.”
Her entire body shudders with delight as she smiles. “Lucky there are still more positions to try, huh?”
“And a few we’ll need to test out again,” I say, taking her by the hand and walking us both back into the bar, the pain in my feet forgotten as my perfect future seems to unfold in a path right in front of me. I’ve got my girl, she’s agreed to be my wife, and now all I have to do is spend the rest of my life loving her. I’ve got it made.
Jade
“Iknow I should be standing here telling you howinsanethis is,” Charity starts as she pins flowers into my hair with a sigh.
“You really don’t need to. My mom covered that already. I think she took up smoking just so she had something to do while she paced the carpark.”
“Understandable, I guess. But, I do think I need to tell you howexcitingI think this is. I mean, I’ve read books and seen movies where this crazy love-at-first-sight thing happens, but I never thought I’d see it play out in real life. It feels very Disney princess.”
“That’s what I said to Kellen earlier,” I say, grinning brightly as I meet her blue eyes in the mirror. “This is all very ‘once upon a dream’.”
“Right?” Charity gasps as she attaches a veil to my up-do. “It’s fuckingromantic.” Spinning me by the shoulders, she slides one hand in mine and the other around my waist as she hums the classic tune, waltzing us around Kellen’s bedroom while we both laugh and allow ourselves to get swept away in the excitement of a sudden wedding.
“Sorry to interrupt,” a deep voice says from the doorway as Vaughn raps his knuckles against the open door, an amused smirk tugging at the side of his mouth when we yelp and jump apart like we weren’t dancing at all—even though we all know damn well we were just acting like giddy little kids.
“Nothing to apologize for,” I say, smoothing a hand down the long white dress with beaded swirls all over it that Charity sourced from a thrift store as soon as I called this morning to tell her the news. She spent all day making sure it was clean and ready for this evening—nowthat’sa best friend!
“Yeah,” she adds. “We were just…uh…testing the length of her dress!” Charity says the last part like she’s suddenly remembered the answers to a pop quiz she didn’t study for.
Vaughn chuckles as he meets her eyes for a beat too long, making me wonder if the sudden attraction Kellen and I experienced is somehow catching.
“Did you need something?” I ask, fighting a smile as he blinks a few times, as if clearing his mind of a spell.
“Yeah. Everything downstairs is ready to go.”
“Oh, gosh.” Nervous butterflies jump to life in my stomach. “I guess it’s time then, huh?”
Vaughn smiles and nods. “I’ll see you down there then.” His gaze flicks from mine to Charity’s, and then they just kind of smile at each other until he backs out of the apartment and heads downstairs ahead of us.
I stare at Charity with a massive smile on my face.
“What?” she asks finally, her cheeks going bright red as she meets my eyes.
“Did your soul just reach out and wink at his soul?” I ask, delight in my voice.
“What?” She laughs and shakes her head. “No way. Lightning doesn’t strike twice. And certainly not as convenient as that.”
“What’s convenient about Vaughn?”
“Just that he’s the brother of my best friend’s almost-husband. It’d be kind of like twins falling in love with twins and just as unlikely.” She rolls her eyes and moves back over to the chest of drawers where a small bouquet of wildflowers sits.
“Well, as of today, I happen to be a big believer in miracles…or even better—soulwinks. Yeah. I think I like that term better.”
“Soulwinks?”
“Yeah. Like what just happened between you and Vaughn. You had this big moment where you both just looked at each other and the rest of the world fell away around you. That moment is when your souls winked at each other. Like, a little ‘how you doin’ from the spirit realm.”
