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I’d seen scenes like this in movies—period dramas—and I had never thought it would be my life, not ever. Yet here I was being led in circles around the dance floor. How in the hell did this happen? How was this my life?
The reality was just beyond anything I could have ever thought.
“Are you breathing?” he asked me as he led me to the right and spun with me.
“Just barely,” I replied back.
“Are you happy?”
A smile spread over my face. “Extremely. It’s hard not to be when I’m kind of having a fairytale moment right now.”
He grinned. “Yes, well, I am very handsome and dreamy.”
I laughed. “You couldn’t help but compliment yourself.”
“I would die waiting for you to do it.”
“What am I supposed to say? What compliment do you want to hear?”
“Nothing too excessive,” he said seriously. “Just a simple… Oh, Gale, you are the most handsome man in the whole world. Oh, Gale, you are the best husband any woman could ever ask for—”
“Nothing excessive?” I questioned, eyebrow raised.
“Exactly.” He grinned, stepping to the side, and I stepped to the side of him. “It’s not like it’s untrue.”
“Aren’t I supposed to be the judge of that?”
We turned back to face each other, and he stared down at me, our noses almost touching. “Are you saying I am wrong, wife?”
His blue-green eyes peered into me, and I felt giddy. Like I was a teenager getting attention from a boy for the first time.
“You are not wrong, husband,” I finally admitted.
His grin morphed into a full-blown smile, and he took my hand once more, leading me away once again as the music sped up.
“So, say it,” he demanded.
“Didn’t I already?”
“No, you said I wasn’t wrong. But I still need to hear the words.”
It was the happiness, I swear. It was making my head all floaty. That’s why if he had asked me to float to the moon, I’d do it.
“Oh, Gale, you are the most handsome man in the whole world. Oh, Gale, you are the best husband any woman could ever ask—”
He kissed me before I could finish the words, causing me to miss my step and nearly trip, but he held on to me. And I kissed him back, and he would have done much more of that if it were not for the applause that once again reminded us we weren’t alone.
When we broke away, he stared down at me.
“Gale, they are watching…”
“And we are giving them exactly what they expect; it is our wedding night. We should kiss often and frequently,” he said, picking up right where we had left off in the music because the orchestra had stopped and waited for us.
It was because of him that I could forget any other person in the world existed, even if it were just for the duration of a dance.
When it finally came to the end, and we turned back to the crowd once more, they applauded. I think if we had sneezed, they would have applauded even still.
Taking my hand, he led forward once again, and as we walked, they parted for us, allowing us to go to our thrones. The red velvet and golden royal thrones were elevated on a platform, under the royal family seal, behind a table. My heart beat faster with those two little steps as he sat first, and I sat second. It was then the rest of the party went to their tables. I glanced over to my mother just to the right of me, and she winked.
