She wasn’t, as the happy couple, wreathed in smiles, strode through their arch of flowers.
A cheer went up.
More glasses of champagne were pressed into their hands.
And a hundred million words couldn’t tell you how thrilled I was for my father, my pregnant sister…
And me.
It hadn’t been the easiest journey.
But we made it.
Boy, did we.
Brilliantly.
Dair
* * *
“And then, kaboom! We slammed into the slip about five feet left of where we should have, and that’s…it,” Blake finished.
Dair roared with laughter.
“I’m glad you find it funny,” she said snottily. “I was lucky Dad had attorneys on retainer. He still had to pay for the houseboat repairs and the damage I did to the slip.”
“Remember, lass, your dad mentioned this story last night, and he was laughing about it nearly as much as me.”
Ned hadn’t shared the details, they were all just reminiscing about a variety of things, and he’d brought it up.
But Ned hadn’t hidden, even if it might have pissed him off at the time, he gave no indication it did, and now he found it hilarious.
At this reminder, Blake just pouted.
“You weren’t even drunk?” he asked.
“No.”
“Not even tipsy?”
“No,” she snapped. “And I know how to handle a boat. It’s just, apparently, I don’t know how to handle a houseboat.”
He laughed again.
She cast her gaze to the side in annoyance.
In was after the wedding and they were in her bedroom at her father’s house. Rix and Alex were down the hall in Alex’s room. His mum was in the guest suite, aye, with Craig (and Dair was making absolutely certain not to think about that). Davi was in another room down the hall with her man.
Rix’s family had chosen to stay at a hotel that was closer to things they wanted to see in the city.
Last, Blake was lazing on him, naked, after coming back from cleaning up post-sex.
“She did it,” Blake said.
He let his laughter die and asked, “Who did what?”
“She redecorated my room and Alex’s. It’s subtle, like she just enhanced what was here so we wouldn’t feel like she’d edged us out. But she did it. And she hasn’t done much to the house, but what she’s done, it’s entirely different.”
