He'd have kept going, but the guards were already dragging him off.
Aaron looked down into my eyes. "What he said—"
"I don't care." I cut him off.
His mouth curved, into something like a tenderness I couldn't name. I tightened my hand in his and turned to the priest. "Continue."
From across the room a voice shattered from a roar into a sob. "No—Tessa, don't, I'm back! I never left with Wendy, she trapped me there, can't you hear me?! This wedding… is the wedding of the century I promised you, the one I built for you, and for me—the first time in my whole life I ever wanted to marry anyone!"
The voice crumbled to nothing.
The priest declared, "I now pronounce you husband and wife."
Aaron drew a ring from his inside pocket. One that looked like it had been ready a long, long time. He
