I’d never been on a beach this quiet before.
There were no voices, no traffic sounds, no shouts of children with kites, just the waves gentle, endless, curling in and out like a sleeping breath, and above that, silence. The kind of silence that made you feel watched, loved, and held by something you couldn’t see.
My wedding dress wasn’t a gown. It was silk long, simple, ivory hugging the curve of my shape. I was barefoot, my toes dug into the warm sand as I stood alone on the edge of the makeshift aisle, staring at the man who had both broken me and put me back together.
Noah Bennett.
Waiting for me in a deep navy suit, sleeves rolled up, tie gone, eyes fixed on mine like there was no one else in the world and maybe there wasn’t.
The night before the wedding, I’d sat by the window wit
