Total pages in book: 69
Estimated words: 68500 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 343(@200wpm)___ 274(@250wpm)___ 228(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 68500 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 343(@200wpm)___ 274(@250wpm)___ 228(@300wpm)
“Today, yes,” Simi answered, both of her babies strapped to her body with this weird sheet-like contraption. “Can you finish up here and be out in ten?”
I nodded, and they all disappeared, leaving only Keene there outside the room.
“What are you doing?” I asked when I saw him lurking.
“Waiting to escort you,” he answered. “There’s quite a crowd today.”
I looked at his attire. “Why are you so dressed up?”
He looked down at his suit. “New thing that Zip wanted to try. I don’t know. I just put it on.”
I rolled my eyes.
Zip and her ideas.
“Okay,” I said. “I’m ready. Should I take my phone?”
“Leave it,” Keene suggested, offering me his arm.
I took it and together we walked out of the dressing area to the main part of the ‘tent.’
I stopped in my tracks when I saw all of my family sitting there, as well as a few friends from work.
But what had my heart absolutely racing was the man at the end of the makeshift aisle waiting for me dressed in a three-piece suit, a lavender tie breaking up the all-black thing he had going on.
My mouth must’ve been on the floor because the grin that flashed across his face when he saw me was nothing short of magnificent.
“Come on,” Keene ordered. “You’re the first sister I get to walk down the aisle. I feel like I need to savor this.”
Keene walked me down the aisle to the man who had given me everything and continued to do so.
When Keene gave me away and Felix took my hand, he said. “You ready to get married, Poppet?”
I licked my lips and stared into his beautiful brown eyes as I said, “As long as you’re here with me, I’m ready for anything.”
• • •
The reception was great.
Coffey cooked.
Zip provided alcohol.
Keene made a dessert.
Hades and Hannibal DJed.
Crimson and Winston brought the dog.
Slone and Tony provided the entertainment in the form of Titus King, the funniest man ever when he was drunk off his ass.
All in all, it was the best wedding ever.
But what made it magnificent was the woman who showed up for the reception with her husband.
Folsom and Kobe.
Folsom came bearing gifts, too.
A few of them, actually.
One that showed Woody and Merrina Kent were evicted from their home for embezzlement and back taxes. Oh, and that his best friend had been responsible for the rape of his family.
The imbecile had kept literal scanned letters between him and his best friend on his home computer talking about how they were going to keep it quiet and protect Cordell.
According to Folsom, who’d done a lot of digging, Cordell West, Woody’s best friend, had died of a drug overdose about eight months after he’d assaulted Linny.
Pops’s last dying wish was granted, even if the asshole didn’t suffer enough if you asked me.
The other gift Folsom and Kobe brought was that Tammy was on her way to Calgary for her permanent position as a basic ER nurse that started at the bottom.
Overall, I couldn’t have asked for a better way to end my day.
That was until Felix pulled me into the closest closet, showed me just how much he loved me having his name, and reminded me that I got to have his dick for the rest of my life.
No. Life couldn’t get any better than this.
At least… I thought so, anyway.
Turns out, a surprise was on the way. One I wouldn’t find out about until days before she arrived.
EPILOGUE
WTF is a kilometer?
-Val to Felix
FELIX
My wife, exhausted and annoyed, stared at her sister with her arms crossed over her chest, and a glare permanently etched on her face.
“What, exactly, do you want me to do here?” Val snarled.
The two of them had been bickering back and forth for going on ten minutes now. All because we’d gone to the doctor today for what we thought was Val to get a renewal on her birth control, only to leave the office with something quite different.
“Well, who is going to run the stupid tarot card table?” Zip raged. “Seriously, you made it so stupidly popular, and no one is going to be happy that one of us, or some random person who’s not even related to us, is running it.”
That was true.
When shit had hit the fan that day in the ER, and that man had stabbed me in the chest, nearly taking my life, Val had poured herself into life with a passion. Everything she did now was with one hundred percent of herself.
And that was something that had definitely helped the circus.
Only, things had changed.
And we were now here to deal with the consequences.
“It’s not like she really did this on purpose, Zip.” Simi added her two cents.
“Well, whatever,” Zip grumbled. “What kind of stupid announcement was that, anyway? Just a ‘hey, we’re having a baby.’ Way to be inventive.”