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Sixty-Two
His brother was a nervous wreck. Nick got a real kick out of that. “What’s the deal? You get her pregnant before the wedding, bro?”
Phil choked for a minute, turning a strange sort of purple. “No. Not happening. I think we have enough.”
“Still, she’s only forty-two. Time for one more…”
“And we’re smart enough to be careful. Now, moving on. This isn’t a conversation I want to have right now. Especially with my brothers.”
Bill and Ned just snorted. Nick looked at them for a moment. They’d lost Ned’s twin Marty first, to a heart condition, when he’d been in his thirties. And lost three other brothers in between.
Nick would always miss them. Brothers…mattered. And one of his brothers was marrying the woman he loved today. That was a damned great thing to see.
“So why are you so nervous? Having second thoughts?”
“Hell, no. If I had my way, I’d have married her weeks ago. I just want today to be perfect for her. I got the impression it wasn’t with her first marriage. Glenna deserves perfect. Don’t know why she wants me, though.” Phil shot him a grin. “Except I am the best of the lot of us.”
Bill shoved him in the shoulder. “Susan would disagree.”
“As would Pam,” Ned just had to add. Bill and Ned were almost sixty now. It almost didn’t seem possible. But it was.
They were in a different season of life now. Just like Nick. Now.
Everything had changed. And he was damned glad of it.
“Glenna deserves you. I think today could be a disaster and that woman would still have the stars in her eyes.” Nick wasn’t good at this emotional stuff.
But his big brother was getting married. To a woman Nick genuinely liked. He was thrilled for Phil.
Nick had been his witness that first marriage so many years ago, in the Masterson County courthouse. Nick and a friend of Becky’s long forgotten. His brother had married a wonderful woman the first time around.
She’d always be missed.
But the woman he was getting today was just as wonderful. And she loved Phil just as much.
The kids were supposed to be getting ready, under the watchful eyes of Phil’s two youngest daughters. Perci and Pan almost rivaled Robin for sheer ability to organize—especially Pan. It was rather frightening, actually. Just give them paper to make lists on and they turned into dictators that terrified a man down to his toes.
But…women like that…kept men like him on their toes. In all the good ways. He hoped his nephews-by-marriage knew exactly how special the women they had were.
Tonight…after the wedding was over…Nick was going to get the woman he wanted, no matter what.
It was just a matter of time.
Tyler men in tuxedos were the most beautiful sight she had ever seen. Phil had all his brothers—with Nick as the best man—as his groomsmen, and his two oldest sons stood up with him as well.
His tall, strong, gorgeous sons-in-law and some of his nephews acted as ushers. The rest were the setup/takedown crew.
Chandler was in charge of the catering.
Robin and Rory stood with Glenna, along with Phil’s daughters. Nova and Evey and Emmy accompanied Wesley and Philip and Parker.
Little Ivy walked proudly at her uncle Phoenix’s side until Phoenix took his place next to Nick and Ivy stood in front of her mother, who had Poppy in a sweet little dress strapped to her own chest. Marlowe and Aria wore identical dresses, and were held in their own mother’s arms.
Little Griffen had on the tiniest tuxedo Robin had ever seen. They were all beautiful. Her sister Becky had left a legacy behind that was to be envied.
Patton and Noah and Nick’s teenage nephew Deacon handled the guestbook without too much complaining.
But it was Pip’s little Davin and Daniel, at almost thirty months now, walking with Elly and Becky who stole the entire show. Had the entire crowd just melting
