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Cricket Hunt was my fate.
Epilogue
Four years later…
“No, no. Her dress is getting dirty. Just pick her up.”
I picked up the little girl with the halo of bright blonde curls and set her on my hip. I made a goofy face and she laughed.
“You’re so funny, Uncle Spencer!” she giggled, her little hand going to her mouth.
“Your Aunt Cricket doesn’t seem to think so,” I whispered conspiratorially.
Cricket rolled her eyes but fought a smile.
“We better hurry or your mama is going to be so mad!”
Her bright green eyes widened and she nodded.
We entered the double doors and I set Savannah down. Cricket bent down and straightened her skirt for her.
“Is this the flower girl?” a random woman asked.
“Uh, yup,” I answered.
She spoke into a handheld device and soon another woman came bustling forward with a ring of flowers for Savannah’s hair. It was set low on the crown of her head.
“This itches.”
“Leave it on and I’ll let you have a giant piece of cake.”
She settled down until she discovered the bell of her dress and then she twirled around.
“Bribery. I like it,” Cricket commented.
I tapped my temple. “Future reference.”
She winked.
Cricket had grown out her hair and it almost reached the small of her back. She curled it, and all I had wanted to do was run my fingers through it since she’d walked out of our bedroom.
My lids felt heavy and I rushed her side. I kissed her throat and moved up to her ear. “Wait until we get home,” I growled.
She gave me her clever smile. “Why go home when we have a perfectly nice car back at the ranch?”
I stood, slack jawed. “Cricket Blackwell, you saucy minx.”
She winked.
“We need all bridesmaids and groomsmen, please,” the woman with the device shouted.
Cricket shoved pulled my arm to where she stood and I resisted, snatching up my wife by the waist and swinging her around. “Spencer,” she laughed. “You are a troublemaker!”
The woman gave us the stink eye, so I placed Cricket back down. We both snorted into our hands.
“We need the maid of honor and the best man in the back here,” she said and we stepped in the far back of the line.
I took the opportunity to pinch Cricket’s butt. She gasped, inviting everyone to turn around and stare at us. I shrugged my shoulders at them like I had no idea what was going on. They turned back around and she hit my arm. “You’re gonna get us in big trouble,” she giggled.
