Cowboy Country by Linda Lael Miller

Author:Linda Lael Miller
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HQN Books
Published: 2017-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

EPILOGUE

CAROLYN AND BRODY were married in early August at sunset, on the former swimming beach at River’s Bend, with the whole town and a good portion of Denver in attendance. Conner was the best man, Tricia the matron of honor and Melissa and Steven’s oldest, Matt, proudly served as ring-bearer.

Davis, handsome and comically uncomfortable in his Sunday suit, gave the bride away, while Kim looked on with tears of pure happiness glittering in her eyes.

Carolyn wore the now mended gypsy skirt, with a white camisole and a short silk jacket she’d made to go with the outfit, and Brody looked better than handsome in his jeans, crisply white Western shirt and sport jacket, his concession to formality.

Since it was summer, the sunset lasted well past the actual ceremony, gradually fading as a band struck up a romantic country tune inside the large, rented tent that stood where the lodge used to be.

There was dancing, and there was cake, but the evening was mostly a glad blur to Carolyn—whenever she looked at Brody, which was often, he was all she saw, and she knew by the expression in his eyes that he was under the same spell.

They were surrounded by friends and family, by music and light and love and laughter, but they might as well have been alone on the planet, just the two of them, they were so absorbed in each other. They’d eaten cake, and toasted each other with frothing flutes filled with ginger ale, and posed for endless pictures, images Carolyn knew she’d treasure for the rest of her life.

Davis, with a slight smile, walked up to them, shook Brody’s hand and politely asked if he might dance with the bride, since he’d been the one to give her away and all.

Carolyn smiled up at the man she thought of as her father-in-law now, as well as her good friend, and she remembered something he’d said to her, a few days before the wedding, when they’d all gathered at the main ranch house for a family dinner.

“When you marry a Creed,” Davis had announced, smiling at her, “you get all of us.”

Now, as they danced, as Kim and Brody joined them on the plank floor put down for the purpose, Chinese lanterns casting a multicolored glow, Davis squeezed her hand lightly. “Welcome to the family, Carolyn Creed,” he said, in that singular rumble of his. “And I don’t mind telling you, you took your sweet time about it.”

Carolyn—Carolyn Creed—laughed softly. “You sound like Tricia,” she replied. “And Kim. Were Brody and I the only people in Lonesome Bend who didn’t see this wedding coming?”

Davis grinned, and Carolyn smiled up at him as they danced. “Sure seemed like it,” he said. “There were times when I would have liked to thump your heads together. It was Tricia and Conner, all over again. They couldn’t see the forest for the trees in the beginning, either.”

“You know, don’t you, that you and Kim mean the world to Brody

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