Epilogue Kailee
O ne Year Later
“By the power invested in me by the online church,” Kenny said. “I now pronounce you both married to Kailee.”
Creed pulled me against him for a long kiss as the sun set in the clearing. I loved the feel of his dark suit against my soft white wrap dress.
Then I was spun around to kiss Davin, and I stroked his soft beard. He was also wearing a suit.
Only Kenny and the three of us would know which name was officially on the legal certificate.
“Congratulations!” Ellen tossed birdseed over us. “You’re married!”
Kenny and Ellen had been dating for about six months. He’d asked her out on his last day of physical therapy.
“I need more PT if I have to walk up here again,” he teased while taking pictures.
“Good thing you are dating a good one,” I said. “Now we want more pictures against the sunset. Hurry.”
“Bossy,” he muttered. “And to think we’re stuck as partners.”
Our fire station had hired Kenny and me after another paramedic went on pregnancy leave and didn’t return.
I posed in between my husbands and thought about our wedding night ahead. The guys wanted to go to a hotel, but I wanted our first married night to be in our cabin, just as we’d spent our first night together.
“We can’t wait for the party,” Ellen said, as I opened the small box of cupcakes I’d brought.
Creed would take Ellen and Kenny down to the parking lot soon, but I wanted to celebrate a bit with them.
We were hosting Thanksgiving with as many of our family members who could come and had rented a room at a local restaurant. What our families didn’t know was that we would announce that we were married.
“It will be great fun,” I said. “And hopefully peaceful, with no rescues.”
I was used to our date nights being cut short when they got called in or I did.
“It is how we met,” Davin said.
“In this very clearing,” Creed agreed.
I pulled them both close for another kiss. Who knew that a mountain mishap would lead to marriage?