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EPILOGUE
RHETT - A FEW MONTHS LATER
I stood across from Skylar, listening as she solemnly swore before the small group of friends around us and the Justice of the Peace to love us until death.
We’d sent an invitation to my dad, but he’d declined without offering an excuse. It had been the first time I’d reached out to him since Mom’s death. He hadn’t done so at all, but that fact didn’t hurt me. Ash’s parents—and Sky’s as well—had accepted me as their own. They were the only family I needed.
Ash and I had discussed marriage a few times over our years together, but neither of us had felt the need for a piece of paper to declare us legal partners. We belonged to each other, and nothing and no one would ever change that.
Thankfulness for never taking that step swept through me as my
