1. Her wedding Anniversary
Chapter One
Fallon Pov
It's my Five years anniversary and I'm really excited. I stared at the gold balloons taped crookedly across my living room wall and grinned.
My friends made a joke about me being nervous and the room erupted in laughter and I couldn't help laughing with them. This was exactly how I wanted today to feel.
My husband had been away on a business trip for almost two weeks, and I'd spent the last three days planning our anniversary celebration like my life depended on it.
He was supposed to be home tonight and he had actually promised. I had made him promise twice, maybe three times.
Okay, seven.
But who was counting?
I picked up my phone from the kitchen counter and checked the screen again, hoping to see another text from him but nothing came up and I frowned.
“He said he'd call before boarding the plane,” I muttered.
Tessa rolled her eyes. “He's probably busy babe”
“Busy? He has been busy for fourteen days…he should be home by now.”
“He's a biker.” Tessa arranged the cutlery on the table and I scoffed.
“That is not an excuse.”
“It is, when your husband is apparently involved in things that normal people aren't supposed to ask questions about.”
I pointed at her. “Exactly…that's why I married him, I live for mystery and the dangerous thrill right?”
Tessa snorted. “You married him because he had a nice ass.”
I nearly choked on my champagne. “Lower your voice, s**t!”
My other friends burst out laughing and I huffed. “His butt exceeded the standard.”
That sent everyone into another fit of laughter and I smiled, shaking my head.
God, I had missed this. My friends had been with me through everything. There were three of us once.
Me…Tessa and Lila. We had grown up together, gone through college together, gotten into ridiculous amounts of trouble together.
Then Lila had left for a trip overseas a few months before my wedding. She had always been adventurous so I had never thought much about it.
Life had simply moved forward and I met my husband in an event then I fell hopelessly in love.
I married him and somehow, five years had passed. I looked around my decorated living room again, feeling that familiar warmth bloom inside my chest.
My father and brother had hated the idea of my marriage from the beginning. They had warned me.
Begged me.
My father had even told me that becoming a biker's wife meant signing up for a life where fear would always sit at the dinner table…maybe he was right but I had chosen my husband anyway.
And for five years, I had never regretted it.
My phone finally buzzed and I grabbed it so quickly that Tessa laughed. “Desperate bitch...”
“Shut up.”
I looked at the screen but it's not him except for a promotional message. I frowned and dropped it back on the couch with a hiss.
The girls laughed again and I was reaching for another balloon when Tessa suddenly gasped. The sound was so sharp that my hands froze.
I looked over my shoulder and everyone had stopped moving. Tessa, who has picked up her device from a notification, was staring at her phone.
Her face had gone completely pale. “What?”
She didn't answer me and I frowned. “Tessa?”
She slowly lowered the phone and the other two women exchanged a look which made my smile disappear.
“What happened?”
“Nothing.”
That was the worst possible answer and I narrowed my eyes.
“Tessa…you won't do that with me.”
“It's nothing, lets…let's just continue okay?” Her voice was shaking and I groaned.
“Then why do all of you look like somebody just died?”
Nobody answered and I looked from one face to another. Everyone paused from what they were doing and even the guest who just walked in had my stomach tightened.
“What happened?”
One of them quietly slipped her phone beneath a cushion and I stared at it then at her. “Did you seriously just hide your phone from me?”
“No...”
I laughed once, but there was no humor in it. “Okay, now you're all acting suspicious.”
Tessa stood up. “Maybe we should just—”
“Stop it Tessa!”
She froze because I wasn't laughing anymore. I hate suspense in my life and this is happening right now. “Give me the phone.”
“Fallon..please wait...”
She hesitated and that was enough for me to go crazy. I walked over and snatched it from her hand. “Hey!”
“I'm not going to bite you Tessa, I just wanted to see your phone.”
I glanced down at it and everything inside me stopped. For a moment, I couldn't understand what I was looking at.
There was a photograph….A man in a black tuxedo, broad shoulders with dark hair.
That familiar jaw and that familiar scar near his eyebrow is definitely my husband.
My fingers went numb as I stared at the screen. Then I saw the woman standing beside him in a white wedding gown with her hand resting against his chest.
Her face was turned toward him and he was looking at her like she was the only person on earth.
My breath caught that I almost had a panic attack because that woman was Lila, my best friend.
I blinked twice for things to get clearer but the picture didn't change. My eyes moved to the caption.
HE FINALLY CHOSE HIS FOREVER.
My heart stopped and I couldn't hear anything anymore.
