• • •
An alert came on my phone an hour later.
An hour later as Bruno glared at me as he helped me from Six’s car.
“Y’all are fucking certifiable,” Bruno hissed at the car full of ladies.
I was the first to be dropped off.
“Whatever.” Six rolled her eyes. “You don’t even know what we did.”
Bruno gave Six a look, then showed her the news banner that’d just popped up on his phone.
Breaking news: Governor Sander Bryan found dead in his home of a heart attack.
Six shrugged. “Them’s the pits.”
EPILOGUE
It’s an add to cart kind of day.
-Coffee Cup
BELLE
One month later
“Do you promise to love and cherish him even when he watches videos on his phone at full volume?” the man officiating our wedding ceremony asked.
I blinked, seriously considering this.
That was one thing that I really, really hated.
I’m talking, on a scale of one to ten, if that were to happen, I might just very well leave the room, or hell, the house entirely.
“She does.” Bruno pulled me closer, answering for me.
I frowned. “But Bruno, I really don’t think that’ll be something that I can live with…”
Laric, who’d gotten ordained just for our marriage, started to laugh.
Six, who was at Bruno’s side as his ‘best man,’ started to laugh right along with him.
Bruno, who’d been very patient with me so far during all of the interruptions, gave me a ‘look’ that clearly said that I needed to behave. Or else.
I grinned up at him.
“I guess that I can handle that,” I said, breathing the words right into his face.
Bruno’s eyes smoldered. “Then by the power vested in me, I now pronounce you husband and wife. You may kiss your bride.”
• • •
Two months later
“Push!”
“Fuck you,” I said to my brother as I slammed the door to the bathroom.