Chocolate Kisses and Love Filled Wishes: Kissing Bridge Mountain - Book 3
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Summer and Brad made the most exquisite couple. It might have been nearly impossible to have ever seen two people so happy. Brad beamed like he had won the Superbowl and Summer had a glow that only a new bride can have.
Mother caught site of Earl across the room, talking to Kacey and Brody. He winked at her and she blushed at having been caught eyeing him up. Aunt Carol bustled up to her with a smile so wide, you could barely see her cheeks anymore.
“Well, well, Ethel, this is a most glorious day. Plus the curse is officially finally lifted.”
Ethel smiled back at her. “Yes, it is a glorious day, praise be to God. It’s a great day for the Landers’ ladies, Carol!”
Aunt Carol hugged her sister closely.
“Maybe you’re the next Landers to go down the aisle?”
Ethel couldn’t help but smile. “Certainly anything is possible after this last week of excitement!” Aunt Carol nodded, her red beehive bouncing back and forth in agreement, as she looked around the room at all the lovers. It had been one heck of a week, but love had won out in the end!
If it hadn’t been for Brody’s true love for Kacey, there would have been no saving Brad, and no wedding. If he hadn’t shown up when he did to declare his feelings, then none of them would have had anything to celebrate.
Jason walked by and stopped to talk to the ladies. He looked very handsome in his grey tux that matched those wonderful Anderson grey eyes. He gave each of the ladies a quick hug.
“Looks like we are officially family now.”
Ethel beamed. “Yes. Lucky us!”
Aunt Carol smiled at Jason. It was nice to see him so at ease and rested. He had looked so worn out when he first got back home after years overseas as a Marine. He had seem defeated, sad and lonely. Now he was joyous and happy, and Aunt Carol guessed exactly why.
“Seems like maybe you might be the next one to consider settling down Jason,” she tried to coerce him into telling his true feelings.
Jason leaned over and said into Aunt Carol’s ear “You’ll be the second to know.” With that he sauntered away with a sly look on his face.
Aunt Carol looked after him suspiciously. Had her eavesdropping skills let her down? She had heard no inklings about town of any marriage rumours. Hmmmm.
She decided she best go take her ears about the room and see if she had missed anything, and off she went.
It was time to dance, with the lovers’ classics playing, Brody helped Kacey to her feet. She was newly off her crutches and feeling much better. He pulled her closely on the dance floor and whispered in her ear. “If you can’t manage, you just tell me, and we’ll stop right away.”
But Kacey didn’t want to stop. She couldn’t get enough of being close to Brody, of breathing in his smell, of feeling his stubble against her cheek. She closed her eyes and drifted away to the music, feeling wrapped up in romance.
Ethel watched all the young lovers dancing under the twinkling lights and thought how lucky she was. The beauty and the music and the love filled the room. She felt a warm arm go around her waist and turned to see Earl smiling at her tenderly.
“Would you do me the honor of a dance, beautiful lady?”
Meanwhile, Jason and Dodie were seated at the wedding table, surveying the guests all dancing. Jason took a bite out of his chocolate egg, chomping into his name iced on, in Tiffany blue writing. He glanced over at Dodie, thinking to himself how gorgeous she looked.
“Honey, take a bite out of your name tag egg. It’s delicious.”
Dodie laughed. “No babes, I’m going to save that.” She ran her finger over the little bumps that formed her name.
“It’s so cute!”
Jason laughed right along. “You’re the cute one here. How are you going to save a chocolate egg?”
Dodie shrugged. “I don’t know – in the freezer.”
Jason hugged her.
“You are so adorable and old fashioned. I love that! Take a bite of yours, go on. Please. It’s the best chocolate ever. Summer’s mom made them up special at the bakery.”
Dodie raised an eyebrow.
Nothing usually got by her at the bakery, as she was there most days helping out and/or teaching classes.
She shrugged and took a bite, curious now. She chewed. Hmm, he was right. It was extra nice. She put the egg down and looked at Jason. “Delicious.”
He nodded. “I especially liked the inner center.”
Dodie picked up the egg to check out the special center, and a brilliant gleam came from inside the chocolaty depth. She picked it up and shook it out.
Much to her surprise, a beautiful diamond ring fell out onto the table.
Dodie gasped.
By the time she turned around, Jason was on his knees. Dodie thought she must be dreaming. She had thought she was going to spend her life with another man that had left her out in the cold at the last moment. There had been the promise of a ring that had never been delivered on. Now here she was, with this amazing man down on his knees, with a gleaming diamond in his hand. At that moment, she realized that God really was looking out for her. That a door never shuts without a window being opened. Here was her window.
“How about it, Dodie? Make an honest man out of me?”
Dodie threw her arms around Jason and hugged him, then kissed him, then hugged him.
He laughed and finally held her back to look into her big blue eyes. “Will you marry me, Dodie, and make me the happiest man in the world?”
Dodie’s eyes filled with tears.
She had never thought she would be able to love again, and now she knew God had just been preparing her for her real true love, Jason—her whole life.
“Yes, darling. Oh yes!”
With that, he lifted her high into the sky and twirled her around for all to see.
Summer came over. “Is this what I think it is?” She looked down at the ring on Dodie’s finger.
“You bet,” Dodie said, grinning.
Summer whooped. “We’re going to be real sister’s now, Dodie! I am so happy for you both!” She motioned for Brad to join them.
Brad disengaged himself from a group of guests and appeared with the perma-grin from the chapel still on his face. He looked back and forth at the group, and then Dodie held up her hand. The engagement ring now on her finger glistened off the chandeliers.
Brad hugged his brother tightly, and then Dodie too. He slipped his arm around his new bride and looked at her like the sun looks at the flowers.
“I’m the luckiest man in the world. And if I never believed in miracles, standing here right now with all the people I love, I know I’m in the middle of one.”
Suddenly a chorus of tinkling spoons to champagne glasses filled the room—the traditional calling for a kiss from the newly-married couple.
Brad scooped up Summer and kissed her tenderly. Summer swelled with joy.
Suddenly, he pulled back and looked at her with a big grin on his face.
She smiled back.
“Why are you looking at me like that, honey?”
Brad lifted his voice for the whole room to hear.
“Because, it just occurred to me, Mrs. Anderson, that the Landers’ family curse has officially been lifted!”
A cheer rang out from the guests and everyone clapped.
Summer threw herself so hard and so unexpectedly into Brad’s arms, that they fell over in a tumble, knocking over a table, and landed with a thud on the floor.
The crowd went deadly quiet.
Then of course, cracked up laughing.
Aunt Carol and Mother attempted to help them up and untangle them from the yards of gossamer satin and lace of Summer’s dress, and the tablecloth they were both wrapped up in—but to little avail.
Soon Mom and Aunt Carol were just as entangled in the mess—as Summer and Brad—and they all ended up together sprawled in a big heap on the floor, laughing.
Why shouldn’t they?
Love was everywhere.
Bra
d and Summer were married.
The Landers’ curse had been lifted.
It just might have been the happiest most wonderful Easter in Kissing Bridge ever!
The End
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27