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Everyone knew she was. Even Violet brought her a tissue so that she could dab at her eyes. Violet was the only one in the room who actually looked good in the dresses their mom had chosen for them. Being a cute little kid helped.
Maby rushed back into the room flushed and happy, announcing that the wedding was about to start. Buzz knew the real reason why she was flushed. The fact that Lucy had to fix her hair, and Harper had to fix her dress meant that Cliff had convinced her he loved only her and that she didn’t steal him from anyone.
As the concert pianist started playing the “Wedding March,” Buzz waited in the second-longest line she had been in this week. First up was Emma, who had somehow hidden her phone in her cleavage, which Buzz had just noticed she had when they were trying on dresses weeks ago. When had that happened? Emma had a bigger chest than Buzz did! Then it was her turn since they were going in order of age.
Buzz half expected murmurs to start once she stepped into the room, but she was met with near silence. All eyes were on her, but her eyes were focused on the priest in front of the room. Next to him was Harrison, who was just watching his kid in front of her.
Buzz was happy he had taken on the dad role with gusto. She’d been surprised when she had found out that he was not only Violet’s dad but Emma’s as well. It seemed that Sera had met him twice over the course of her life and happened to get knocked up both times—then hidden the fact for two different reasons.
But since he’d found out, he had been the best dad ever: taking them places, having the three all stay overnight at his place, and buying a house with Sera that she, not him, exactly, loved. All because he wanted to make sure the kids were happy. He wasn’t even rushing the kids to move from the house they had been raised in. Or Sera, for that matter.
After the honeymoon, the big sisters would have to force Sera to move in with her husband and take her kids with her since the new house was theirs as of yesterday. Even Buzz could see that Sera was never moving on her own. She had one excuse after another about not doing it.
At the front of the cathedral, she turned and scanned the attendance for one face. For the entire time the twins and Harper slowly walked up the aisle, she looked but didn’t see him.
A rush of relief washed through her, followed instantly by disappointment that he wasn’t there. She admitted to herself that she wanted to see him again. As her mind flashed back to her time with him, she was nearly too distracted to watch Sera float down the aisle behind Violet.
Nobody could deny that all her planning was paying off; nothing was left to chance, and it was perfect. From the vows, right through the dance to the happy couple being taken away in a horse-drawn carriage at midnight, everything was all Sera.
Once the hoofs clip-clopped away, she and Agatha gathered up Violet and Emma and headed home. The day had been exhausting. Both kids had fallen asleep in the car, as had she, which was okay because Agatha drove. Not much was said as everyone shuffled to their bedrooms. Buzz took Harper’s that night. With how Kaine was looking at her all day, there was no way she was coming home. When and if Lucy came home, Buzz didn’t know.
By noon the next day, Harrison and Sera were back and dressed like normal people and picking up the girls and their suitcases to head out for their honeymoon. The plane was leaving in the afternoon, and it was all Harrison had wanted from the wedding: time with his family. The trip was all him, which involved tears from his new bride as she said goodbye to the two women who were in the house and awake: Buzz and Agatha.
Once the front door closed, she started to get ready to start her career as a chef—or a fake chef, because she was never going to be a real one. Then she had a week to find out if Dr. Judith Rowley was the same woman that had walked away forever from the same kids Sera barely could leave for a week.
Telling herself it didn’t matter didn’t stop Buzz from needing to know.
