Total pages in book: 166
Estimated words: 169305 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 847(@200wpm)___ 677(@250wpm)___ 564(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 169305 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 847(@200wpm)___ 677(@250wpm)___ 564(@300wpm)
Elvis turns to Zach, peering at him behind oversized sunglasses. “And do you, Zachary Yibo Sun, take this woman to be your lawfully wedded wife?”
“I do.”
“You may kiss the bride.”
We both take off our masks, sweaty and grinning.
He slips a glove off, tosses it behind him, and dives his fingers into my hair, kissing me to the soundtrack of our family’s hoots and hollers.
Constance throws flowers at us.
Celeste twirls in her fancy seventeen-thousand-dollar ballgown.
Dallas and Frankie hurl candy at me.
Ari and her fiancé grin at each other.
When we finally break off the kiss—mainly not to embarrass our family—I find myself breathless still.
My heart beats too fast, too loudly. I feel like jelly, too warm to stand. Zach catches my elbow when my knees wobble.
I expect him to swoop me up bridal style.
Instead, he loops an arm around my waist and smashes me to his chest, carrying me with my legs wrapped around his torso. Perks of the fencing uniform.
I throw my head back, warm and fuzzy and, I realize, so truly, unabashedly, utterly happy.
He presses a kiss to my forehead, striding down the aisle with ease. I relax into my husband’s arms. The only true home I’ve ever known.
“Zach?”
“Yes, Wife?”
“Tell me something about the octopus.”
“I’ll give you something better.”
“Oh? What’s that?”
“My father’s last words.”
I freeze.
He presses a kiss to my temple before leaning into my ear, whispering them for only me to hear.
The pendants unite two souls. Fate knows what we don’t.