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‘I’ll make it up to you all, Elise,’ Alex promised gravely. ‘I’ll prove to your father and to you that I’m nothing like my uncle.’
‘It’s bad luck, you know for us to be together so late on the eve of our wedding.’ Elise sounded faintly concerned by that well-known superstition. ‘We should have parted hours ago.’
Alex opened the door of the barn and for a moment they stood quietly, Elise anchored to his side by a powerful arm about her shoulders.
‘It’s stopped raining.’ He glanced up at the clear, navy-blue sky studded with a moon and stars.
‘That bodes well,’ Elise said brightly, hugging him about the waist. ‘Fine weather on a wedding day is a good omen for a happy marriage.’
‘Indeed,’ Alex said, bowing to her need to find auspicious signs. ‘Thereafter we’ll make our own luck, sweetheart; you can trust me on it. I know because I’ve got you and that makes me the most fortunate man alive...’
