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He brought her into bed with them where she began crawling all over them, but she was walking now—running actually—so she refused to be corralled for long.
Logan and Sophie’s wedding was held in the community hall near Fabiana’s. Sophie wore a tea-length white dress with half sleeves. For once, her copper curls were loose, and she even dusted a bit of makeup across her eyes and lips. She was positively glowing with joy.
Cloe had the delightful duty of bringing the flower girl down the aisle and holding her while the bride and groom spoke their vows. Reid and Trystan stood up for Logan. Emma was maid of honor. Biyen escorted his mother down the aisle, red-faced in his tuxedo and grinning ear to ear.
Everyone cried, especially Glenda.
“I think we should start planning to move back to Canada,” Cloe told Trystan as they were dancing at the reception, which was held at the pub.
“Yeah?” He drew back a little so he could see her face.
“Not tomorrow, but maybe in the new year? You’ve been away a lot over the years. Your family needs to see you as much as mine does. Also, you could document the handover of the resort.” The men were already talking about how much progress had been made on that.
“What would you do?”
“For work? I think I can do bookkeeping remotely. I’ve been helping some of the stylists and estheticians. Lots of them prefer to do it themselves, but somehaterunning their business. They just want to do hair and go home. Each one only needs an hour or two of support a week, but if I found more clients like that, it could be something I could do from pretty much anywhere.”
He nodded thoughtfully, but said, “Don’t take on too many. I want you to work and travel with me when I’m ready to start the doc.”
“I know.”
“We’ll probably wind up in Vancouver, since that’s where these dingdongs will be.” He threw that at Sophie as she swirled by in Reid’s smooth waltz.
“You’rea dingdong,” Sophie said.
She and Logan were on the hunt for her replacement here at the marina and she had headhunters looking for the right position either in Vancouver or one of the big ports on Vancouver Island. Reid and Emma were looking at houses in the city, and Emma wanted to certify as an early childhood educator.
Things were still very much in the air with all of them. Even Biyen was in flux as he debated whether to try homeschooling so he could go with Logan and Sophie in the spring, when they brought Logan’s sailboat through the Panama Canal.
“I’d like to be able to visit here, though,” Cloe said, meaning Raven’s Cove. “Wouldn’t you?”
“We’re keeping the house for Storm. Logan wants to rebuild Sophie’s place, so I think they’ll hang on to that, too.”
“Do you want a house here?”
“I don’t need one. This whole place is my home.”
“His living standards are abysmally low, Cloe,” Logan said, making her realize he was dancing with Glenda right behind them. “We’ll always have a bed for you.”
“Logan’s not afraid to kick his stepson out of his bed and give it to someone else,” Emma said, doing a side-step with Biyen.
“It’s true,” Biyen said, watching his feet. “Usually, I sleep with Mom if someone needs my bed, but how’s that going to work now?” He stopped dancing to look at Logan.
“So it’s all settled,” Trystan said drily, dancing Cloe away from the lighthearted argument about who would sleep on the sofa.
“Clear as mud. Exactly the way we like it,” she agreed.
“Sometimes I think I’m very lucky that I found you, but other times I think we were meant to happen,” Trystan said. “Do you ever believe that?”
They had moved closer to one of the windows that looked out on the water where the sky was turning pink with the evening sunset. Something black swooped past the glass. The raven tilted this way and that, then perched on a post that supported the rail on the patio below.
It was probably looking for dropped food. There was nothing otherworldly about its arrival, but Cloe still thought,Hi, Tiff.
“I do believe we were brought together by forces beyond us.”
“Storm,” he said wryly, pulling her into leaning on his wonderfully strong frame.
“That, too. I still feel lucky that we love each other. That it’s so easy to love you.”
