Total pages in book: 78
Estimated words: 75517 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 378(@200wpm)___ 302(@250wpm)___ 252(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 75517 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 378(@200wpm)___ 302(@250wpm)___ 252(@300wpm)
She leans down, cupping my face. She runs her thumbs along my cheeks, catching the tears I hadn’t even realized were falling before she presses her nose into mine. “And you say you have to be drunk to be romantic.”
I grin up at her. “Since I’m an eejit when I’m drunk and the hangover is rough at my old age, I have to be romantic sober.”
She curves up her lips in a smile that if I didn’t need to hold on to her, would knock me on my ass. She wraps her arms around my neck, and I do the same to her waist as our lips almost touch. “Okay, Grandpa, I’ll marry you, with one promise.” Her eyes dance with mischief, and I shouldn’t expect anything less from my little minx.
“You name it.”
“Never let me forget how important I am to you.”
“Done.”
As our lips meet, I realize that promise was the easiest one I’ve ever made. I hear everyone clapping and cheering us on, but all I can think is that, for the longest time, I thought fate was a moody little cunt. But she isn’t. She had a plan.
She had to drag me through the storm so that I could truly feel the sunshine that is Clara.
My lass.
My baby girl.
My love.
My wife.
EPILOGUE
Clara
Ten years later….
It was a real pain in the ass to get twenty-six people to Scotland, but somehow Riggs made it happen.
Not that I’m surprised. That’s Riggs.
Whatever I want, he gives it to me with a grin on his face.
Since the day I agreed to marry him, he has turned my life into an epic love story. I’ve had the pleasure of watching him coach and mold young minds. When it’d get hard being apart, I’d go on trips with him, and I even brought the boys since we all would miss him so much. I was able to watch him win the AHL Cup two more times before he decided to retire last year. He was tired of being away from me, and we wanted to add to our lives.
Which is what my sisters have been doing since the jump, it seems.
Once Elliot had Alejandro Jr., Alex married her a week later. He was pretty insistent on their son’s parents being married. Elliot didn’t fight it, nor did she fight getting pregnant again, because they then got pregnant back-to-back with Nicolas and Abram. At one point, she had three kids all under the age of three. She survived, though, and continues to work like the boss bitch she is. She is doing social media for not only the Bears, but for the Assassins since Alex was traded back to them. It’s awesome because we’ve gotten three years with them so close, and I couldn’t be happier.
Austen got pregnant before she and Dimitri got married. Now, she is the mom of four, and she is still kicking ass at stats for the Assassins. Dimitri is still playing for the Assassins, but he plans to retire soon to be a stay-at-home dad. I know I’ll miss all the cute pictures of Erik, Ivan, Alexei, and Mila cheering on their daddy in their little Assassins jerseys. Though, Dimitri tells me now I’ll have pictures of them in their own jerseys.
I can’t wait.
Like the mom she has always been, Eliza ended up having five boys. I’m not sure if it was really a choice or if my brother-in-law couldn’t keep his hands off her once he was healed. It took almost two years for Coleson to get back to the NHL, but he did it, and he brought home the Cup with the Panthers. He played for about five years before he was reinjured. By then, they had all the boys, so he figured it was time to be home with his family. They live in Knoxville and run Drippy Drip once more. I get to see my nephews, Noah, Leo, Caden, Marshall, and Ryker, daily since they come to help me with the dogs when their parents need to work together at the shop.
We didn’t know at the time, but Louisa was pregnant with Lara at her wedding. As much as she and Ciaran like to tease that Riggs and Elliot hijacked their wedding, it was really Louisa puking in the bushes that hijacked it. Not that any of us knew; she hid it well. Apparently, we’re good at hiding things, we McDavid sisters. Ciaran was traded a lot, but the good thing about it was that my sister was able to open seven more Dirty Pages all over America. She is thriving and somehow is still the greatest sister and mom. We all thought that Lara would be an only child, but Louisa popped out Clyde eight months ago. A surprise baby who is loved more than all the romance books in the world, as she likes to tell us. Though, I’m pretty sure she’d take an hour of uninterrupted reading time any time of the day. They’re currently in North Carolina, but rumor is, Ciaran may be retiring next year and they plan to come back to Knoxville.