Of course, the reception after the wedding took place at the Forest. Carrie couldn’t say she was surprised. These men had built a life around their work and it was only natural to celebrate there as well. She understood why the bosses hadn’t been thrilled at the idea, but as Alex explained from the older days of the Forest, this kind of thing had been tradition.
“Or at least, it was before things changed.”
“How have they changed?” she asked with genuine curiosity. “You’ve been around from the start, right?”
“Before I should have,” Alex said with a grin. “I joined when I was still underage,” he told her. She shot him a glare that said: That’s not responsible. “What? I came from a bad home. I was lucky to get out while I was so young. A lot of the men come from broken homes, pla
