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“I’m sorry, Wes.”
He gave a one-shoulder shrug.
“Why did she say no, if you don’t mind talking about it?”
“She wanted a life here in Boston.”
I turned and stared out the front window of his car as he pulled out of the parking lot. “I think if I ever found someone I wanted to spend the rest of my life with, that one person who was my soul mate, I’d follow them to the ends of the Earth if it meant we would stay together.”
Wes didn’t say anything at first, then asked, “What if it meant leaving behind your dreams?”
It was my turn to shrug. “Dreams can be made anywhere. But love, the kind of love that only comes along once in a lifetime, that kind of love is worth fighting for. Or at least, I think it is. I’ve never experienced it before, but I’ve seen it.”
“You believe in soul mates?”
Smiling, I reached for the locket around my neck. “I do. I’ve seen it firsthand with my own parents. When I was six, I couldn’t sleep one night and snuck out of bed, thinking I could go to the kitchen and get some of the chocolate chip cookies I’d made with my mom earlier that day. When I got to the second landing of the steps, I heard music. It was Elvis Presley’s ‘Can’t Help Falling in Love’ playing. My father and mother were dancing in the middle of the living room.”
I closed my eyes and smiled at the memory.
“The way my father looked at my mother with so much love. God, I remember you could almost feel it in the air. And she looked at him the same way. They still look at one another the same way to this day.”
Turning to look at Wes, I said, “I made a promise to myself that night that the man I married would have to look at me the way my father looked at my mother. That’s the only kind of love I want.”
He smiled and nodded his head. “That’s my folks too.”
“Your brothers look at Harmony and Rory that way as well. So, I really do believe in it.”
We drove on in silence for a few minutes before Wes spoke again.
“She’s getting married.”
“Who?” I asked.
“Mandy. My ex-girlfriend. That’s why I moved back to Boston.”
Confused, I shook my head slightly. “Wait, your ex-girlfriend, the one person you were in love with, is getting married andthat’swhy you moved back to Boston? That doesn’t make any sense,” I said with a soft laugh.
“I’m going to stop it.”
My heart dropped. “Wh-what?”
“The wedding. I’m going to stop the wedding.”
I was positive I was staring at him with a shocked expression on my face. I covered my mouth with my hand before letting out a humorless laugh. “Wait. You’re planning on trying to stop Mandy from getting married. How? Why? I mean, why would you do that?”
“I haven’t figured that part out yet, the how. The why part is to show her she’s making a mistake.”
A feeling of sickness rolled through my stomach, and I softly whispered, “You still love her?”
He didn’t look at me as he replied, “I never stopped loving her. She doesn’t want to marry him.”
“What? If she didn’t want to marry him, why in the world is she doing it then, Wes?”
“She’s…confused.”
“Wes, you have to stop and think about this, it’s insane.”
“I have thought about it, Clare!” he shouted.
