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He slides the ring on my finger and we both stare at it for a moment, the sun dancing across the surface making it sparkle.
“This was my mother’s. When I told her that I was going to marry you, she insisted you have it.”
“That’s why she said that to me.”
“Said what?”
“She just told me how happy she was that you were happy and that you loved me. She got kind of teary-eyed and I just wondered where it came from. Oh,” I say, wiping a stray tear out of my own eye, “and then Daisy saidbye, Momto me when she left my classroom.” I shake my head, trying to hold back the rest of the tears that start to fall.
“Are those good tears, baby?”
“Yes, very good tears. I just can’t believe this is how this all turned out. It’s… just like a fairy tale.”
“Like a romance novel?” He gives me a coy smile and it makes me laugh.
“Have you been reading some of my books?” I tease as he wraps his arms around me and we both stare up at the tower.
“You know,” he says, kissing the top of my head, “the day I met you here, I was completely taken by your beauty. You had this split second where the sun was behind you and the wind was causing your hair to fly around you and you just took my breath away.”
“Is that—is that why you took that first photo?”
“First photo?”
I reach into my pocket and pull out my phone, swiping back until I find the pictures he took. “I posed for this one but when I went to look at the pictures, this one was right before it.”
He takes the phone from my hand and stares at it, a smile spreading across his lips. “I didn’t even realize I took a photo of you. I was so lost in your eyes for that brief second that I must have taken it not thinking that it wasn’t my phone. This is getting framed and put in my office.”
“And here I thought for sure you hated me after that meeting.” I look up at him.
“No, I hoped and prayed that I would somehow find you again, and then when I did at the airport, I was terrified. I knew right then that if I were to talk to you, to look at you for longer than a second, you would see right through me. You would know how infatuated with you I was and I knew that I’d never be able to walk away from you. I would rather never give you the chance to destroy me instead of risking getting everything I imagined with you.”
“So what happened then? Why’d you risk it?”
“I didn’t have a choice. There was no way I was going to be able to talk myself out of not falling in love with you so I leaped with both feet and it’s the best decision I’ve ever made.”
EPILOGUE
WESTON-SIX MONTHS LATER…
“Inow present to you, Mr. And Mrs. Daphne and Weston Vaughn. You may kiss your bride.”
I place my hand behind Daphne’s neck, the other on her swollen belly as I lean in to plant my lips on hers.
“Ewww!” Daisy gags as my mom and Xana laugh.
“I can’t believe we were just here getting engaged only six months ago.” Daphne smiles against my lips, kissing me again as her arms wrap around my neck.
“And getting pregnant,” I murmur, my cock jumping just remembering that night. I had tied her to the bed of our hotel and teased her mercilessly for an hour, edging her over and over until she was thrashing on the bed, begging for me to take her.
“I still can’t believe we are on top of the Eiffel Tower right now for your wedding,” Xana says, looking over the edge. “This is going to make our beach wedding look like a hoedown,” she says to Ryan.
Neither Daphne or I realized you could get married at the top of the Eiffel Tower… well technically, you can’t, only at the restaurant on the lower level, but I pulled a few strings and made it happen.
“Is it time for cake yet?” Daisy says, dropping her basket of flowers.
“It’s time for cake.” Daphne smiles, taking her hand as we all head down to the restaurant for lunch and cake.
We both decided after finding out that Daphne would be six months pregnant at our wedding that we wanted something very small and intimate and early enough in the day that she and I would have the evening to ourselves.
