Epilogue
EPILOGUE
Valentine’s Day
Everyone who’d been invited to attend Zara and Saint’s wedding knew they would be witnessing one of the biggest and fanciest weddings ever held in Catalina Cove. The great-great-great-granddaughter of the cove’s founder, Jean LaFitte, and his wife, the original Princess Zara, was getting married on the grounds of Zara’s Haven.
Zara, dressed in a white off-the-shoulder lace-up-back wedding gown that she had designed, looked absolutely radiant as she walked down the aisle on her brother’s arm. The handsome groom was all smiles and had held her gaze from the moment she had appeared until she stood by his side.
With a multitude of wedding guests looking on, most dabbing at their eyes, the couple recited vows they had written to each other, pledging their lives together forever. When Saint slid the wedding ring onto Zara’s finger, he recited the words, “One and done. Forever.”
A short while later, the pastor announced they were husband and wife. Before he could tell Saint that he could kiss the bride, he was already pulling Zara into his arms and giving her a kiss that seemed to go on forever...until the minister felt it was time to clear his throat. The couple would be honeymooning in the Canary Islands and then spending time in Paris.
The treasure dig on Pelican Bay had been successful when the excavators had uncovered a chest filled not only with gold coins but all kinds of jewelry and artifacts as well. The same findings resulted in the digs on Levi Canady’s and the Dorsetts’ properties. For that reason, the value of the treasures was still being tallied, and it was suspected to be far more than anyone originally assumed.
Those closest to Saint and Zara knew that as far as the couple was concerned, their true treasure was the love they’d found for each other at the cottage on Pelican Bay.