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“It was.”
“Why?”
“Because the first night I saw you on the stage at Chapter House, you were brushed in diamonds.”
Awareness settled in her eyes. “You were there?”
“I was and I wanted to murder everybody in the building because of the way they were watching you.”
Lusting over you.
Imagining what it would be like to have you.
“Youwere watching me,” she smiled smugly.
“I was but I had already claimed you so I had the right, they didn’t.”
Another reality settled into those pretty brown eyes.
“That’s why you chose me over Jona. You saw me dance that night.”
“It’s not as simple as watching you dance, but yes, that’s part of it and today, I get to marry the angel who stole my heart while she’s wearing a reminder of the night she did it.”
Her smile spread again. “I’m not sure if I should be impressed or disappointed.”
“Why would you be disappointed?”
“Because your first impression of me was physical and that’s why you chose me instead of my sister.”
You’re so damn wrong.
“I chose you because that night I felt you before I ever laid eyes on you. I chose you because you were already mine before I ever knew who you were. I simply didn’t know it.”
Her cheeks flushed and Ez cleared his throat but my eyes never left her face when he spoke. “As much as I appreciate you two having this very private moment, maybe we should get these vows out the way then you can get rid of us and do this without all these extra eyes on you.”
“Yeah, I think I like the sound of that.”
I winked at Cress who rolled her eyes but smiled as she handed her bouquet to Jona. The priest waited patiently until we turned to face him then each other. This part was pointless to me. Cress was mine and I was hers.
This was just a formality.
* * *
I leaned against the open frame of our bungalow with my back to the ocean while Cress moved around on bare feet, exploring our home away from home for the next five days. The open floor plan allowed me a visual of her as she moved from room to room. Pending where she stopped, I could only see the white silk of her dress but I was able to completely track her movements.
When she finished exploring, and stepped in front of me with a blush in her cheeks and arms locked behind her back smiling nervously, I reached out and gripped her hip, pulling her to me.
“You should be tired.”
She was correct. I should have been but wasn’t. A nineteen hour flight and forty minute ride on a private yacht to get to the island. Most of which I spent awake, unable to rest.
“So should you?” I feathered kisses over her cheek, down her jaw.
“I slept on the plane, you didn’t.” Her chin lifted so her eyes met mine.
“How would you know whether or not I slept if you were asleep.”
Her smile expanded. “I wasn’t asleep the entire time.”
