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“What, like you couldn’t afford to hire them for a house party?” Brady points out with a snicker, earning the bird from his brother.
“Boys,” Joy warns them with a sigh.
“Just wait,” Erin says, her face bright with pride and excitement. She and Rem are sitting at our table, closest to the stage. “Just wait for it.”
“So, this song that we’re going to sing is a sentimental one,” Meg says and smiles down at Erin. “Leo and I have sung this song a hundred times together, usually at weddings. We sang it at Jules and Nate’s wedding, and maybe every other wedding in the family, now that I think about it.”
There are nods and applause throughout the room, and then Brax starts to pluck the strings on his guitar in a sweet intro that already has tears springing to my eyes, and they haven’t even started singing yet.
“It’s called ‘Marry Me,’” Meg says, and then she starts to sing the romantic lyrics. When the verse changes, Leo takes over, and his gritty voice sounds natural singing the ballad. When they join together in the chorus, I have to take a long, deep breath as emotion slams into me so unexpectedly.
The song is just so pretty, and here in this beautiful space, it feels like a fairytale.
Chase squeezes my hand in his and brings it to his lips, but I can’t take my eyes off Meg and Leo, who both look down at Erin and Remington, their voices melting together so effortlessly.
And when the last notes drift away, Erin jumps up and runs onstage, pulling them both in for a big hug as she wipes at tears of her own.
In fact, as I look around the room, taking in superstars and athletes, it occurs to me that there aren’t many dry eyes in the whole place.
“Thank you,” Erin says. “Thank you for that.”
“I love you, my baby,” Meg says, holding her daughter’s face in her hands. “Now, these guys are going to play for a while, unless there are any objections.”
There’s laughter all around, and then Meg leaves the stage, returning to her husband, and Sidney says into the mic, “Who wants to hear some more music?”
The applause erupts, and the band starts playing a Nash song that I’ve listened to my whole life. And then, still to my utter astonishment, because I’m quite sure I’m dreaming, Leo Nash himself starts to sing.
“I love this song,” I mutter, dancing in my seat.
“He wrote it for my aunt Sam,” Erin says. “The song ‘Sunshine’ is for her.”
“You have a swoony family, Erin.”
“Don’t I know it.”
CHAPTER TWELVE
CHASE
“Oh, my.” We all turn and find Mom standing on the threshold of the big family room in my parents’ house. This is where all the guys are getting ready for the wedding. All of my brothers and my dad are here. Erin’s dad decided to get ready with his family up at the resort, which was probably for the best, given how many of them there are and how small Mom and Dad’s house is.
“What do you think?” Remington asks, adjusting his bowtie. I know that he doesn’t love wearing the monkey suit—hell, none of us likes it, but I have to admit, we all clean up nicely.
“I think,” Mom says, tears in her eyes, as she walks over to smooth down his lapel, “that I have the handsomest men in the world, right here in my house.”
“That’s a given,” Brady says with a smug grin.
Mom takes a turn with each of us, kissing our cheeks and brushing imaginary lint off our shoulders, and then finally makes her way to our dad, who scoops her into his arms and plants a big kiss on her.
“You’re damn beautiful,” he mutters in her ear.
“I’m ready!” Johnny, Remington’s son, comes running out of the bathroom. His tie is crooked, his jacket bunched up at the shoulders, and he forgot to zip his fly, but he’s all smiles. “I look dang good.”
“Yes, you look very handsome,” Mom says with a laugh and bends over to kiss his head. “But let’s straighten you out a bit, shall we?”
“I lost another tooth,” Johnny says proudly. “It’s gonna look awesome in the pictures, and I got another five dollars.”
“How much do you have now?” Ryan asks.
