Nix & Scotlyn: The Wedding by Tess Oliver

Author:Tess Oliver [Oliver, Tess]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sugartree Press
Published: 2014-12-20T05:00:00+00:00

I sent a text to Clutch. “I found her.”

She hiked along the long, curvy road and walked across the manicured lawn and around the maze of headstones, finally stopping near an ornate wrought iron bench. She stood for a few minutes before dropping to her knees in front of several headstones.

Watching her, the girl who owned my heart and my soul, sit alone on the grass, her shoulders shaking and her head bowed in anguish was one of the hardest things I’d ever done. After twenty minutes, I couldn’t keep myself in the car any longer.

I traveled along the same road. She hadn’t seen me yet, and I had no idea how she’d react. She pushed to her feet and placed some daisies into the small cup holders on each grave. I waited for her to finish. So many words had flown through my head in the past few minutes that I still had no idea what I would say. Then, she turned around, and all the words fell into place.

She stared at me for a second as if she was looking at a mirage.

“Scotlyn, hope you don’t mind. I just needed to know you were safe.”

Her vivid blue eyes were misted from crying. She looked sadder than I’d ever seen her. She looked back at the headstones and the flimsy stems of yellow and white daisies. She continued to stare down at them. “He won’t be there to walk me down the aisle.” Her quiet voice trailed up over the neatly manicured slopes. “Olivia, my maid of honor, can’t hold my bouquet.” She sobbed once. “And I won’t hear my mom sniffling into her handkerchief while I say vows.” She smiled weakly. “Mom used to cry during greeting card commercials.” She reached up and wiped away a tear. “I guess that’s where I get it from. I can’t get married because they won’t be there.”

I swallowed hard. It had never occurred to me that the notion of getting married would just be a painful reminder of how much she’d lost. “I don’t need a damn certificate or ring to know that you are my life. I don’t pretend to know what this is like.” I waved my hands toward the headstones. “I know that there is a piece of you that can never be mended. And all I can do is be there for you when that pain takes hold. And I know it does…a lot. I see it in your face, that incredible face that I can never stop thinking about.” I dropped my gaze for a second to catch my breath. She looked so vulnerable, so distraught that it was tearing me up inside. I peered up at her. She stared back at me with glossy eyes. I was having a damn hard time keeping it together. “I can’t promise you that nothing will ever happen to me, just like you can’t make that promise to me. I have everything I could want right now, a thriving business, good friends, a house of my own, but none of it matters without you, Scotlyn.

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