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Epilogue
The wedding was justover twelve hours away as the clock struck midnight. The entire family was staying at the Beckman hotel, all on Cliff as a wedding present to them. Though Sera had tried to get the venue of the wedding changed three times, Buzz had held her ground: no cathedral. Jonas hadn’t been to any of the weddings Sera had put on, but he felt he had missed a lot.
Since the girls were spending the evening in their hotel suite, the guys had gone to the bar for a few drinks. Jonas had gotten to know Cliff and Kaine over the last three weeks, and Harrison had forgiven him for what had happened in Jonas’s office. So had Sera, but just barely.
It seemed like every man was programmed to leave once the clock struck midnight, even if their wives were locked in a two-bedroom suite that was supposed to hold the five Lovely sisters, Sera, Sera’s two girls, and Louisa and Frankie. Those two had been accepted into the fold instantly. Though they still lived in Chicago, they had come back for the wedding.
“One more?” he asked the guys, who were already on their feet.
“Nope, Sera is coming back to sleep with me. We’re going to enjoy a night without the girls in the house.” Harrison grinned. Jonas wanted to tease him about kids getting in the way of his sex life but thought better of it.
It had only been days after news of Buzz’s baby came out that Sera had made her own announcement. She had been holding it back for weeks because she wanted to make the announcement special, except she’d ended up blurting it out when Buzz had told her she and Jonas wanted to get married. It seemed she was overly relieved that she wouldn’t look pregnant when one of her kids got married. Then she forbade the last two singles in the house from meeting the man of their dreams until after her baby was born.
Instead, he questioned the man, “I thought the girls were all staying in one room, doing what girls do?”
“They were supposed to, but my Mrs. can’t sleep if I’m not around,” Cliff stated, draining his beer.
“Harper’s going to make everyone stay in that room.” Kaine couldn’t stop the chuckle that followed. His wife’s control over her sisters was only in her head. Everyone knew it, even Jonas knew.
“Am I going to be the only one sleeping alone tonight?” he asked the group as they headed for the door. No one answered.
“Just a heads-up, man. Don’t sex up your fiancé too much tonight,” Cliff whispered beside him.
Jonas laughed. “I’m assuming she’ll stay with her sisters tonight. That’s what she said she was going to do—enjoy her time with them since we’ve been living together for almost three weeks now.”
It was all she could talk about for days, even if she spent a lot of time at the Lovely house. They had even slept over twice. But he was beginning to realize there was never too much sister time.
“Just keep your pants on, man. That’s my word of advice.” Cliff winked at him.
Jonas asked in confusion. “For marriage?”
“Nope, my marriage advice is to always say yes to your Lovely lady, even when it leads you places you don’t want to go. You’ll want to be there with her.”
“That is good advice,” Jonas admitted, not thinking anything that profound would come out of the man’s mouth since he was usually joking.
“I know. Now I have to go tell my wife yes,” Cliff stated with a smile and a salute.
Laughing as the man headed down the hallway towards his room, Jonas wondered if his wife was going to be waiting for him. Buzz had said it was strictly going to be a girl’s night, and the men were only invited because Sera wanted everyone in the hotel and ready for the wedding. It seemed there was going to be a lot of sneaking around going on tonight.
When the women had picked a room with two adjoining suites and a total of four beds, he wondered how the seven sisters, their mom, and his two sisters were going to fit. But if those with a spouse were just going to leave, there would be room.
This morning, Sera had cornered him and demanded that he get to bed early, which hadn’t happened because Harrison and the guys had wanted to go out for drinks. Sera had been sure that nobody would get enough sleep tonight at the hotel, which was why she was against the idea. It seemed that during every other wedding, everyone had been over-tired on the wedding day. She couldn’t figure out why.
After slipping into his own room, he kicked off his shoes, hating not spending the night with Buzz. He was so used to her being there beside him that he was dreading that night and hoped that there wouldn’t be another like it in a long time.
Though it was the same hotel, it wasn’t the room he’d had months before when he had met Buzz the first time. But it was a carbon copy, which only made him miss her more.
Then it hit him. If the wives weren’t staying in the girl’s room, was it possible that Buzz was going to come to his room? That it had been the plan the entire time? Instantly, he pulled off his T-shirt and tossed it on the floor on the way to the bedroom.
Except he didn’t think she was there. Last time he had sensed she was there, and this time, nothing. If she were there, he would know it. Now that he loved her, he should know when she is in a room.
Which left him nothing else to do but go to bed and hope that morning came quickly.
Not half an hour later, there was a knock on the door, a quiet one that left him wondering if he had heard it at all. Sitting up and shaking himself from sleep, he smiled. There she was—his sneaky little soon-to-be wife.
Walking to the door in just his boxers, he didn’t even check to make sure it was her before swinging the door open to invite her in.
But instead of his redhead, it was four of her sisters, two of whom where his also. They all looked from his face and down his body, then at the ceiling quickly.
