In the radiant afterglow of Aunt Maggie's storybook wedding, life takes on a renewed vibrancy and sense of awe. As if the joy surrounding her union with Tim has managed to rekindle all the magic and possibility that the turmoil with Becca tried to extinguish.
"Look at you two lovebirds," Maggie teases warmly one afternoon a few weeks after the nuptials. We're gathered around the backyard patio of her new home, sipping mimosas as the warm spring breeze ruffles the blossoms dangling from the trellis overhead.
Charles pauses from nuzzling a line of delicate kisses along the curve of my neck to grin unabashedly at her raised eyebrow. "What can I say, Mrs. Laudermilk? Your niece brings out the lovestruck fool in me every second of every day."
I catch his eyes twinkling with mischievous ador
