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I look toward them and can see Larisa and Jo crying while their husbands try to console them. Our families cheer for us with their hands in the air. In the corner, Clem and her boyfriend, no doubt emboldened by all this love, have gone at it again.
“Ladies and gentlemen! Honored guests! Let’s settle down and hear the bride and groom! Evan Davis, do you take this woman to be your lawfully wedded wife, in sickness and in health, for richer and for poorer, ‘till death do you part?”
“I do!” comes Evan’s answer, loud and strong.
“Emmy Williams, do you take this man to be your lawfully wedded husband, in sickness and in health, for richer and for poorer, ‘till death do you part?”
“Absolutely I do!” I answer, unable to contain my tears.
Evan picks me up in his arms and kisses me, not able to resist any longer.
Through the tears of happiness and our first kiss as a married couple, I can hear the minister saying: “I now proclaim you, husband and wife! You may now … umm … well, you already are … kiss the bride again, then!”
We kiss again while our wedding party claps and cheers.
Below us, the streets of Paris are in full bloom, blessing our union with their eternal charm.
“Well, Mrs. Davis, we did it!” he tells me.
“So, I’m Mrs. Davis now? Not Emmy or Dolly?”
“You’ve always been Mrs. Davis.”
Extended Epilogue
Emmy
Six Months Later
“Do you have everything you need? Your water bottles, your vitamins, your neck pillow? Do you have your…”
I look at his handsome face all worried and fussing over me as if I’m a schoolgirl going on a class trip for the first time. I’m going with Jo to visit Larisa because we haven’t seen each other since the wedding in Paris. And that was six months ago.
“Honey, I’m fine. Really. They have water and neck pillows on the plane, too.”
“But I want you to be comfortable. And I need to know that you’ll be fine!” Evan argues.
“I will be! Evan, I love that you’re so protective. But I would much rather you kiss me right now than fuss over the water bottles. I only have a few more minutes until I have to board the plane.”
He puts down my luggage and wraps his arms around me. “I can’t believe that you’ll be gone for a whole week. What am I going to do without you for seven days?” he says before kissing my entire face.
“Work? Isn’t that why you’re staying in Boston? You said you have shifts at the hospital…”
“I do. But I’m going to miss you so much,” he replies and buries his face in my neck. “Mmm … you smell so good. Vanilla and cherries…”
“I sprayed some on my pillow, so you don’t miss me too much at night,” I whisper in his ear.
“Are you joking? At night is when I’ll miss you the most,” he replies and kisses me ravenously. “At least, during the day, I have my shifts and my patients to keep me busy but at night—”
“You’ll be too tired to think of anything, I promise.” I giggle as his nose tickles my neck. “Plus, we’ll FaceTime and text and…”
“And what?” he asks, not able to stop kissing me.
“Mmm … I can’t remember right now,” I confess, getting lost for a moment in the exquisite sensation. “Goodness, that feels so good … how are you even doing that?”
“Well, your neck has a lot of nerve endings and when I kiss you there, biologically…”
“I don’t need a biology lesson, doctor!” I start laughing and poke him gently with my finger. “I was … being romantic!”
