Page 145 of Sinful Wrath
“I don’t. I just… I can’t believe you did all this for me.”
“Lucia, when are you going to realize that we’re always going to be here for you?”
I blink back tears as I reach for their hands.
“Thank you, for being the best friends I always wanted.”
“Enough with the mushy stuff, I don’t want to ruin my makeup.” Zara fans her eyes. “Let’s get you married!”
Elle soon arrives, and we turn Vivi’s room into a dressing room.
Despite my dress having been altered to fit around my heavily pregnant belly, we make it work considering I barely gave birth twenty-four hours ago.
Elle pulls the lace garter from her purse that she gifted me all those months ago at my bachelorette party. “I know there won’t be any funny business for a while, but I thought you should still have this.”
“I’m sure Mikhail will still appreciate it.” I chuckle.
Within half an hour, I’m fully made up and being wheeled out into the corridor by my father, who looks particularly dashing in his three-piece suit.
“Is this allowed?” I glance at the nurse who’s wheeling Vivi’s incubator out into the hallway ahead of us.
“Technically, no, but who am I to deny two people in love?” She offers me a warm smile. “I’d say it’s a pretty special way to welcome this little one into the world too.”
“It really is.” I smile as I look at my daughter.
“Be careful, that’s my granddaughter in there,” my father warns.
The nurse pales a little.
“Papa, let her do her job.”
He grumbles but keeps quiet as the nurse wheels the incubator down the corridor.
I have to say, Bianca and Zara have managed to turn a hospital corridor into a perfect wedding venue, with vases of lilies lining each side as well as the huge flower arch at the end that I had planned on standing beneath as I exchanged vows with Mikhail.
“I can’t believe they got that here,” I whisper.
My father pats my shoulder from behind me. “You’ve made some very strong allies, Lucia.”
“They’re so much more than that. They’re my family.”
Elle hurries over to me and hands me my bouquet.
“Ready when you are.” She winks.
I take a deep breath before nodding.
I’ve been ready for this since the day Mikhail and I completed that bucket list all those months ago. I knew then that he was either going to forever break my heart or heal it.
I’m so grateful that I was given the opportunity to love and be loved by him. He’s my everything, and I can’t wait to tell him that in front of our family.
I can barely see through my tears as my father wheels me down the corridor to where Mikhail stands with one hand on Vivianna’s incubator. My entire family, old and new, lines the makeshift aisle as Dimitri plays my entrance music through his phone.
I can’t help but laugh.
This is not what I envisioned at all, but it’s so much better.
When I reach the end of the corridor, Mikhail helps me to my feet, and I take a moment just to admire how handsome he looks in his tuxedo. I catch the top of his newesttattoo peeking out above the collar of his shirt, and I choke back a sob.