All At Sea by Heather Wardell

Author:Heather Wardell
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2013-05-05T04:00:00+00:00

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When we slipped into the chapel five minutes before three, Rob and his four groomsmen stood at the front near Captain Edgar. Rob shifted from foot to foot and tugged at his tie, then caught my eye and gave me a small smile and a nod. I smiled back.

Wendy leaned in. "Think he's got that list of reasons not to marry her stuffed in his suit?"

I chuckled. "Wouldn't be surprised. And she's got an electric buzzer in her hand." I shook my head. "What else could they do to each other during the ceremony?"

We spent the next few minutes brainstorming increasingly ridiculous possibilities and trying to imagine how the calm-looking Captain Edgar would react to them, then a uniformed man came in and whispered something to the captain. He smiled and said something to Rob, who immediately looked twice as nervous.

"Show time," Wendy murmured.

I nodded. "I hope it's right," I said, surprising myself. "They're so mean to each other."

Wendy looked at me, eyebrows raised, but she couldn't speak because the first notes of Pachelbel's Canon were ringing out. Instead, she drew a small check mark in the air and grinned at me. Knowing she was saying she approved of their music choice since she'd already decided she wanted the same song for her processional, I grinned back.

The bridesmaids paced in, one by one, each wearing the same long sleek dress but in a different jewel-tone. Sapphire blue, rich garnet red, emerald green, deepest amethyst purple, they made their way to the front and stood facing the back of the chapel.

When the aisle was clear, we all stood, knowing who'd be arriving next. With everyone else, I stared at the open door of the chapel wanting to see Stephanie's dress.

Nearly every woman in the place was in tears before she'd taken five steps along the rich burgundy-and-gold carpet, and not because her dress was gorgeous and fit her perfectly.

No, it just seemed right to cry when the bride was crying.

Tears were sliding freely down her face like she hadn't noticed they were there. She might not have, because her face was lit up with love and happiness and her eyes were focused straight ahead.

I blinked my own eyes clear and turned back to the front of the chapel as she passed us, but I might as well not have wasted the energy on blinking because my eyes filled up again when I saw Rob. Rob, and the tears on his cheeks.

He was smiling at her through them, smiling so widely it must have hurt, and the glow in his eyes was hard to look at, like looking directly at the sun. I'd never seen a man look so in love.

When Stephanie and her smiling father reached the front, he hugged her then stepped back and let her stand next to Rob. She and Rob turned to each other, and leaned in to share a short but tender kiss before Captain Edgar began the ceremony. They held hands throughout, without a single

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