“That’s true,” Aubrey said with a shake of her head.“Though my cousin will be attending next year.Half of my family is lining up to fill Madame Bellafonte’s halls after I married a duke.They now seem to think the school is the best way to make an excellent match.”
Everyone laughed at that.It certainly had worked out for them.
“I’ll miss Mayfair,” Camilla added, her chin coming to rest on her hand.
But Aubrey only gave them a bright grin.“As we all know, Drew’s home is on the other side of the square.Perhaps next year we can all attend the May Day celebration.”
“Wonderful idea,” Sarah said as she looked at the man she was about to marry.The man she’d loved since the age of fourteen.“Though I think I shall abstain from making any more wishes.One in a lifetime is quite enough.”
Everyone laughed again as Jack leaned close, his lips just brushing the shell of her ear.“How lucky for me that I got to collect the one.”
She laughed.“You didn’t collect it so much as ride in, suited in armor, and demand that it be yours.A situation I quite enjoyed.”
Ash chuckled.“Gads, can you imagine if he’d had to ride a horse in that thing?”
Jack sat up.“I could do it.Did you see how quickly I mastered moving about?”
Drew slapped his knee.“Gentlemen, I know what we’re going to do today.”
Sarah looked around her, joy bubbling inside.It wasn’t just that they’d each gotten a wish but, if she wasn’t mistaken, they were becoming a new wonderful family.“I shall watch from a balcony, I think.”
“It’s only right that my princess should,” Jack said.
“And safer,” Ash added.
“I love you,” Jack whispered, twining his fingers through hers.
“I love you too.Always.”
She was home.
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