Country Billionaire: The Complete Series
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“As ready as I’m going to be. No turning back now!”
“Honey, if you have any reservations. It’s never too late.”
“Daddy, I was only teasing. I have no reservations. There isn’t a single cell in my body that isn’t sure about this. No cold feet for this lady.”
“Ok, I just wanted to double check,” he said leaning forward to give me a light hug. He was careful of my bouquet and my dress as he wrapped his free arm around me. “You’ll always be my little girl and I just want you to know that no matter what, your mother and I will always be here for you.”
“Thank you, daddy. We better line up, it’s almost our turn.”
He lined up beside me and we both took a deep breath. The music changed and became more dramatic and we knew it was our turn. “Let’s go!” he said taking a step forward. Three steps and we were out from behind the curtain and in clear view of the entire audience, and Shane.
I watched, the slow motion returning, as everyone in the audience twisted and turned in their seats to get a better view. Hands with cameras jut out into the aisle and a hundred smiling and crying faces stared directly at me. I could feel the flood in my veins starting to turn icy with stage fright until I lifted my gaze to look at Shane.
He stood there, his back rigid, his fingers up at his eyes plucking away the tears that were threatening to fall down his cheeks. Seconds later his hand dropped from his face and his eyes met mine. Seeing him tearful at the sight of me had brought the waterworks to my own eyes and together we gazed at one another with shining glistening eyes. He was even more handsome than when I’d seen him earlier, and as I walked, I kept my focus on him and everyone else in the chairs to my sides drifted away until all I could see was the two of us. The lights from camera flashes, the gasps as I walked past, the brushing of my dress along the ground as I walked, it all faded and all I knew was Shane, his eyes locked on mine.
As if in a trance, I walked the rest of the way down the aisle. My father kissed my cheek lightly and released me as he placed my hand in the palm of my future husband. Gifting me to Shane. He wrapped his finger tightly around mine and squeezed – the hand hug that always sent a jolt of warmth through my body.
Together we turned and impatiently waited as the traditional lines were recited. Together we recited our vows. Together we kissed passionately when instructed to do so. It all passed so quickly but felt like one of the most remarkable moments of my life.
Afterwards, after our honeymoon, I asked Shane for a copy of his vows so that I could frame them, and read them, and recite them forever.
I’ve thought for weeks on end about what I would say.
How do I ever hope to convey the true depths of my feelings through mere words?
I knew the moment that I saw you that you were the woman I would be with forever.
You came looking for a job but all I wanted was to take you out for a meal so that I could stare at you across the table.
I don’t know how I managed to get the food to my own mouth I was so transfixed on you.
But that’s what you are, transfixing.
You are completely and utterly life changing.
That’s what you’ve done to my life, changed it forever – for the better.
I see my life now as before and after.
Before you I thought I was happy and satisfied, but now I know I had no idea what true happiness was.
True happiness is getting to spend my days with you and our beautiful daughter.
Happiness is making you smile, and being loved by you.
Happiness is what I want to bring you every moment of every day, and I will spend my whole life doing everything I can to do that for you.
I love you.
I love you more than I ever thought possible.
I didn’t even realize love like this existed.
I see you and my heart swells.
I beg you to let me love you.
If you say yes, I will be the most grateful man that has ever lived.
Please say yes and let me show you each and every moment how truly integral to my life you are.
Let me prove to you that a love like ours has never existed before.
I posted the vows in the hall near our bedroom, I would pass them every single day and glance at them as a reminder of how incredible our wedding day had been. Even now, ten years later, those words still make my pulse race.
Now our daughter is bigger than I ever imagined her, she’s grown so quickly. Too quickly. I wanted to wrap her in one of her tiny blankets and keep her as a gurgling infant forever. I wanted her to stay small in my arms, my darling baby, but she’s grown, just as she should. She looks so much like her father it astounds me. Yet, given the right light she looks so much like me as well. The two of us combined into this single perfect little person.
We still work the ranch together, we still hold hands and we still have the most intense sex I’ve ever experienced. I wake up every single day knowing that I made the right decision and I know he feels the same. I watch him sleeping with the same powerful urge to touch his face, and I know that feeling will be with me forever.
He’s my one, the only one – forever.
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