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He kissed her. Languid and lingering, and the only thing that she needed. ‘Yeah. We will.’
CHAPTER TWENTY
THE WEDDING HAD been organised in six weeks flat, and was more joyful than Sam could have ever imagined. Ann had helped her into her silk and lace dress, producing a blue garter that she claimed to have worn at her own wedding, and Paul had given her away. She’d recited the vows that she and Euan had written together, and he had never once taken his eyes off her. When she’d seen him waiting for her at the end of the aisle, she’d almost knocked a flower girl over in her haste to reach him, and David had jabbed Euan in the ribs when he’d started to shake with suppressed laughter.
Kathryn House was due to open in the new year, and a huge marquee erected in the empty grounds took the overflow of people. Ann and Paul, Sal’s brother Josh and his wife, Euan’s parents, friends from London and everyone they knew from the Driftwood Drugs Initiative. Jamie was there with Kirsty on his arm, and Juno turned up, her hair dyed purple for the occasion, presenting Sam with a piece of swirled, shaped glass that gleamed in the light of the lanterns that hung along the veranda.
‘It’s beautiful!’ Sam hugged Juno, who glowed with pleasure.
‘There’s a message for you both in there.’ Juno tilted the piece to exactly the right angle, and Sam stared at the coloured glass and metal strands.
‘Oh!’ Her hand flew to her mouth. ‘Thank you. We’ll make sure to do that.’
‘Yeah. Often.’ Juno snorted with laughter, grinning at Euan, who had decided that two minutes away from Sam was too long and had come to collect another kiss.
‘What’s so funny?’
‘I’ll show you later.’ Sam smiled up at him.
‘Where’s the honeymoon, then?’ Liz had squeezed through the throng of people to dispense hugs and kisses.
‘We’ve got a beach house. Somewhere sunny.’ Euan had made those two stipulations, but was still keeping the exact location a surprise.
‘Yes. No internet. No phones.’ Sam had specified those two details. Six months ago it would have been unthinkable. Now it sounded like paradise.
‘Sounds wonderful.’ Liz caught sight of Juno’s present. ‘Juno, that’s lovely. May I see it?’
For a moment they were alone in the centre of a crowded room. Holding onto each other tightly.
‘Happy?’ He smiled down at her.
‘Yes. You?’
‘I could be better.’
‘Oh, yes? And how could you be better?’
‘Another kiss and then I get to dance with my beautiful wife. Then it’ll all be just perfect...’
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