Forever Love at Wildflower Lock (The Wildflower Lock #4)

Epilogue

Daisy and Theo came up with the design together.

One large rectangular sapphire – or baguette, as the jeweller called the shape – with two smaller emeralds of the same shape on either side.

The lock and the two sides of the towpath.

It was the place that had brought them together, and now it would be with Daisy wherever she went.

There on her ring finger.

It was two weeks before they could pick it up and only another two weeks before it was joined with a simple silver band.

‘You sure?’ Theo said, as they stood outside the registry office.

‘This is definitely what you want?’

‘This is absolutely what I want,’ Daisy said.

‘No fuss, no expenses – just us promising to spend the rest of our lives with one another.’

‘Then there’s no way I can say no to that.’ Theo grinned back.

There was probably going to be some fallout from the way they were doing things.

Daisy knew that, but she didn’t care.

She wasn’t getting married to make other people happy.

She didn’t need to fit whatever conventions they wanted to place on her.

This was what she wanted.

Theo.

Pure and simple. She moved forward to kiss him, only for a bark to interrupt her.

‘Yes, I know.

Don’t worry, you’re coming in there with us,’ she said, reaching down to straighten Johnny’s bow tie, only for Bex to stop her.

‘I’ll do that.

You don’t want dog fur all over you before the event,’ she said, then promptly adjusted the bow tie.

Bex, Claire and Johnny.

That was it.

They were all the people who were going to be present for the wedding.

Daisy knew Amelia had wanted to come too, but it was only two witnesses that they needed, and she wanted the whole thing to be as simple as it could be.

And that meant having the two friends who had been by her side through it all standing there with her.

They had discussed having a party at some point.

Maybe a nice meal out with family, or at the Lock so that their friends there got to celebrate too, but that was all secondary to Daisy.

What mattered was her and Theo.

He made her the best version of herself, just like she did with him.

They were a partnership.

A couple who found joy in each other’s happiness.

And that day, the wedding day, was just the beginning of the rest of their lives together.