Page 75 of Wait For Me
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Once we were at the airport, the guys weren’t able to hide our destination any longer. We flew straight to Vegas, and the giant grin on my face didn’t drop even once.
“You know, you’re supposed to ask before I agree to marry you,” I explained to Jared as we checked into the hotel. Kip didn’t come with us. When we departed the plane, he had made a new friend of his seatmate, and he followed her to wherever she was staying.
She was in Vegas as part of a bachelorette weekend for a friend of hers, but she ended up catching a later flight than all her friends because of a work issue. Kip promised to meet us at the chapel later so that he could be one of our witnesses.
“I don’t need to ask, Twinkles.”
I rolled my eyes. “If you’re going to keep calling me that stupid name, there better be something on me that actually twinkles.” I held up a very specific finger, the one a ring should go on, so that he knew exactly what I was talking about.
Jared chuckled. “You think I’d marry you and not put every mark possible on your body that says you’re mine?”
“I hope you know that goes both ways,” I shot back at him.
“I do.”
“That’s for later, baby,” I teased.
“You are too much.”
“I guess you should find someone else to marry then.”
“Nah, your ‘too much’ is perfect for me.
“Smart man.”
“Someone once told me I grew wise in my old age.”
I laughed at the memory because I had been the one to tell him that. “So, are we getting hitched or standing around remembering silly things we’ve said to one another?”
“Let’s go get hitched, Mrs. Impatient.” Jared offered me his arm, like a true gentleman.
“You’re not nervous?”
“No, you?” Jared stared down into my eyes for a minute after he answered, and if he had any doubts, I couldn’t see them there.
“Nope. So, no second thoughts?”
“None.”
“That’s good.”
“I assumed so,” he told me, though his grin slipped a bit as he tried to figure out what I was doing. “I’m not letting you go, Star.”
“Good because I don’t want you to.” I leaned up and kissed his cheek. “I have a wedding present for you, once we’re done getting hitched.”
“Yeah?”
“Mmhmm.”
His eyes sparkled with amusement. “You didn’t even know we were getting married today, until we were in the airport, so how did you manage that?”
“It’s a surprise that I’ve been working on for a few weeks.”
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When we made it to the famous chapel, Kip was already there along with the woman from the airplane.