Dair somehow felt it and pulled me closer.
For my part, I braced for what was to come.
“And now I have a beautiful, loving wife who fills me with such happiness, I cannot wait to start each day by her side, and end it in the same manner. Marlo, my darling, you’ve enriched my life so completely I could use a hundred million words and add a hundred million more and still not express how much you mean to me. I love you. And I’m so damned happy you let me make you my wife.”
Marlo lost it and Dad took her in his arms.
So, of course, Alex and I lost it again too.
Thus, Rix held his wife.
And Dair turned me into his embrace.
A half an hour later, after time spent together (and me fixing Marlo’s makeup, not to mention, Alex’s and my own), Dair and me, Alex and Rix hustled back to the Rotunda so the newlyweds could make their grand entrance through the flower festooned double doors.
I went right to Cadence so I could check off what just happened.
When I returned to Dair, he muttered, “I’ll be glad when ye can retire that fucking binder.”
“I still have the one for Alex’s baby shower,” I warned him, and the one I’ve just started for my revamp of the NYC flat and the other one for Davi’s bathroom reno, I did not say.
“Aye, and I’ll be glad when that one’s gone too.”
He said that, but his gaze had wandered.
I followed it to where Davi was sitting with her recently-promoted from-casual-fuck-buddy-to-boyfriend, Ewan, and Kenna was sitting with her new beau, Craig.
I returned to my man.
“You all right?” I asked.
And my all-honest-all-the-time Dair said, “She’s happy. He thinks the world of her and treats her like it. It’s just…I’m not used to it, lass.”
Davi wasn’t used to it either, but she was ecstatic.
Bally knew about it, and he was devastated.
Dair wasn’t used to it, but he’d get used it because of what I was about to say next.
“She’s happy.”
He cast his eyes down to me. “Aye, my love. She’s happy.”
I smiled at him.
“Ms. Sharp?”
I turned to the staff member who was hovering.
“They’re approaching,” she told me.
I nodded. “Thank you.” Then louder, I announced, “They’re approaching.”
Excitement swept through the room, and everyone gathered around the double doors.
“I cannot wait to see what she’s wearing,” Chloe said as she came to stand by me.
“You won’t be disappointed,” I assured her.
