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Wedding Day
June 15, 2019
I stared down at his outstretched hand and saw my future laid out before me. I’d take his hand, leave Cole behind forever, apologize profusely about the interruption, and say I do. I’d deal with Ash’s parents’ fury for the rest of my life and live happily ever after as the girl who almost ran out of her wedding, effectively becoming the source of town gossip forever.
“Lila, please,” Ash said, a note of desperation breaking into his voice.
“I just humiliated you and me and everyone else in that building. How can you want me to come back inside? How can you even look at me?”
“Because I love you, and I don’t care about any of that other stuff. I don’t care what anyone else says. I’ve loved you since I was seventeen, and I want you to be my wife.”
Despair we
