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“Jonas?” her voice was thick with sleep as her arms went around him.
Kissing the top of her head as she rested it against his chest, he asked, “What are you doing in the closet?”
“Waiting for you to come back from the bar. I was going to come out of the closet and sex you up, but I fell asleep.” She opened her eyes and scowled at the room as if it were the room’s fault.
All he could do was laugh at her cute little scowl. He wished he had found her when he had gotten back from the bar, but the door had been closed, and he didn’t even think to look in there. That was never going to happen again.
“You’ll have to sex me up later,” he whispered, noticing Cliff and Mabel in the doorway.
“No, I can do it now.” She squirmed in his arms, not noticing they had company. “Just give me a moment.”
“Wedding time, Buzz,” Cliff stated from where he stood.
Jonas gathered her closer to him. There was only one thing she needed now, despite her words: to go back to sleep. “That’s tomorrow, Cliff. Now Buzz needs to get some sleep.”
Buzz instantly smiled and giggled. “No, Jonas, we have to get married.”
“Tomorrow, honey.” He kissed her again. She wasn’t fully awake yet. Hopefully, she would fall back to sleep quickly. Then he could get rid of her family.
“No, Honey,” Cliff mocked his nickname for his soon-to-be wife. “The judge is here, and he doesn’t like to linger.”
“Cliff is right. We have to get married now. It’s tradition.” Buzz wiggled until he put her down.
“We’re getting married in a few hours, Buzz,” he reminded her, wondering how long she thought she had slept.
Buzz went back into the closet and reappeared in tight gray jogging pants. “No, we are getting married now, just like all my sisters. It’s tradition.”
“Lovelys marry before the big Sera wedding. So far, everyone else has,” Mabel filled him in.
“Let’s get it over with,” Buzz said and headed out of the bedroom.
Once they were back in the living room, he saw the new arrival, who was not happy to be there. Within minutes they were married, or so the paper said. Harper had insisted she be a witness, and nobody could talk her down. Louisa was the other signer because Frankie refused.
Once the document was signed, everyone was gone from the room in two minutes, everyone but Buzz and him and a piece of paper that said she was his.
“What was that?” Jonas asked when the door closed behind the last wedding guest. He supposed that was what they were called.
Buzz grabbed the paper from the table and looked at it for a moment before putting it down again. “That was a Lovely wedding. Sera never lets anyone just get married in a simple ceremony, so we do it the night before. Cliff has something over the judge. You can’t tell Sera about this, or she’ll be pissed.”
“You mean we have to go ahead with the other wedding?” he asked. It seemed like a weird and unnecessary tradition.
Buzz spun and looked at him as if he just wasn’t smart enough to catch on. “Of course. That one is for Sera. Cliff and Maby started it, and it has been my favorite part of all the weddings.”
“Is that why you went with almost everything Sera wanted? Except for the venue?” She’d seemed okay with so much, he thought that she wanted it all. There were even fireworks!
Buzz shrugged. “I put up a fight on enough so that she didn’t get suspicious.”
“You weren’t going to tell me about it?” There hadn’t been a single hint about it. Not once. Though the wedding planning had been fast, he thought she could have found time to tell him about the pre-wedding wedding.
“I was going to tonight, but I fell asleep before I could seduce you.” She grinned. She was lying. They hadn’t been together long, but he knew her good enough to know when she was lying to him. This was all going to be a surprise wedding for him. Or a pre-wedding wedding.
With a shake of the head, he let it go. He was getting used to her surprising him. So far, a few of the surprises hadn’t been nice ones. Walking over to her, he pulled her into his arms. “Can you seduce me now?”
She shrugged and looked up at him. “Now? I don’t know, I’m kind of tired, and I already have you locked down.”
Dropping a kiss by her ear, he whispered, “What if I came out of the closet?”
She threw her head back in a laugh. “I can work with that.”
Lifting her into his arms, he carried her into the bedroom. Neither went into the closet or came out of it, though they argued about it before neither could talk anymore. And neither wanted to.
The End
