CHAPTER 65
B EAST
A few days later
Because life is short and very rarely makes any sense, we decide to create a moment that makes all the sense in the world to us.
We retake our marriage vows.
But this time it’s an intimate affair.
Just the two of us and Priest, who is officiating.
It’s a stark difference to our original wedding when everyone in the club was present, and I was forcing Belle to marry me.
Moonlight streams in from the open windows and pools on the floor as I take Belle’s hand, and she steps up to the altar to stand beside me.
And when I finally slide my wedding band along her finger, this time it feels real.
It feels right.
“I now pronounce you man and wife,” Priest says, and I take my wife’s face in my hands, and I kiss her deeply.
“Are you going to leave me on my wedding night again?” she asks.
I smile down at her. “Baby, wild horses couldn’t drag me away from you tonight.” I brush my lips over the tip of her nose. “Ever again.”
She smiles, and when I look at down into it, I know it is my home.
“You’re my forever,” I say.
Standing on her tiptoes, she takes my face in her hands and presses a small kiss to my lips. “Good. Because you’re kind of stuck with us.”
The word us echoes through me.
“Us?”
She smiles. “That’s right, bike gangster, I’m going to have your baby.”
Emotion wells in my chest. “A baby?”
She smiles, and I fall even more in love with her. “More specifically, a daughter.”
An atomic bomb detonates in my chest. I had long ago abandoned the idea of being a father and now…
Now this wild beauty has changed all that.
I place my hands on her belly, only now noticing the slight curve beneath my palm.
A daughter.
My daughter.
Growing inside the woman I could never live without.
For the first time in my adult life, tears well in my eyes.
“Since when?”
“Seems our first night together was a little more magical than we thought.”
I got her pregnant that first night.
All this time, she’s been carrying my baby inside her.
A rush of protectiveness sweeps over me, and I pull her into my arms and kiss her long and deep.
Knowing I just got my fairytale ending.