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He was shaking with laughter. “Where’s the other one?”
I lifted my wrist and frowned. “You must have taken it off.” I glanced warily at the bedroom door.
“I thought Maia was staying with Sha
“She was,” he assured me as he untied the tie.
As soon as he did that, I whipped on the T-shirt.
“I’m coming in before the coffee gets cold.”
“Come in,” Logan said once I was covered and the tie was hidden.
Maia pushed open the door and stepped in carrying two mugs of coffee. My lips parted at the sight of her. She was already dressed in her bridesmaid outfit.
“You look beautiful,” I said.
She gri
“She’s right.” Her dad leaned up to press a kiss to her cheek as he took his coffee. “You look gorgeous, sweetheart.”
She blushed and smoothed her now-free hands down the pale pink dress. It was so subtle a pink it was almost oyster. It had little cap sleeves, a sweetheart neckline, and a slight swing in the skirt. The skirt hit her knees, so you could see the beautiful oyster-pink platform peep toes she was wearing. Her hair had been styled into this elaborate updo with coils and curls pi
“You look so grown-up.”
Maia smiled shyly at me. “Do you think Charlie will like it?”
Her father growled at the mention of the boy who had been seeing Maia for eight months now. I didn’t know what he was so concerned about. Charlie was the opposite of a bad boy if ever I had met one.
“I’m sure he will. What are you doing here? Clearly you’ve been at Sha
“Aye, the hairstylist and makeup artist did my hair and makeup first, so I thought I’d grab a cab and come back home to make sure you two were up. Thankfully I did, or you’d still be sleeping.”
“On that note, I’m going to take a shower.” Logan dumped his now-empty coffee mug on the bedside table and hurried out of the room.
“Is he nervous about walking Sha
“Nope. He’s honored.”
I watched Logan walk his sister down the aisle a few hours later, my chest bursting with pride. I still thought it was incredibly brave of her to choose him over her father, and I was pleased to see that despite the upset it caused, her parents were still in attendance. Apparently, their father had come around, and understood why it meant so much to Sha
They’d also been there for Maia so far.
Not surprisingly, Maia, knowing what they were capable of, kept her defenses higher around them, having been taught too young what it was like to have someone care for you one moment and stop caring the next.
But the MacLeods were trying.
Sha
It might have been the motorcycle boots Sha
Both Sha
I’d never known people like them, I thought as I stared around the room at the women and men and children who had invited Sha
“Need a hanky there?” Aidan whispered in my ear beside me.
Juno, who sat by his side, jabbed her elbow into his stomach to quiet him.
Chloe, who sat on my other side, handed me a tissue.
I rolled my eyes at their gentle teasing, but I was glad they were here with me.
All of my family in one room together.
“Okay, let’s ditch this place and get out of here,” Sha
The reception hall was huge because they had a lot of guests, but those of us who were family and close friends had pushed two tables together and were sitting around them, talking and drinking, relaxed now that the ceremony and di
We stared up at Sha
Her dress – a white, figure-hugging, calf-length forties-style number – was still pristine. As were the five-inch Kurt Geiger bridal shoes she was wearing. However, her cheeks were flushed, and her hair was falling loose of the clips the hairstylist had used.
She looked overwhelmed.
“I mean it.” She nodded. “We need to get out of here. My cheeks hurt, my feet hurt, and I’m fed up talking to people I hardly ever talk to instead of the people I want to talk to.” She gestured to us.
“I tried to tell her this is what it would be like,” Cole said as he wrapped his arms around her waist and drew her back against him.
“Let’s just go to the Walk or something.” She referred to a pub that I knew Cole favored on Leith Walk.
“Nope.” He kissed her cheek apologetically. “We’re stuck here.”
“That doesn’t mean you have to traipse around after everyone else,” I said, pushing an empty chair toward her. “Sit down with us. If anyone wants to talk to you, they can come to you.”
Her eyes brightened at that, and she immediately whipped off her shoes and padded over to me barefoot. Logan pushed a chair toward Cole, and he gave up and decided to join us too. “What the hell,” he muttered. “It’s our wedding.”
“We should have done that at our wedding,” Joss said to Braden.
Her husband held Baby Ellie in his arms, swaying her gently as she took everything in. Sha
“Probably,” he said. “But I quite enjoyed how tortured you were by it all.”
“You’re such a romantic,” she said dryly.
He winked at her and she rolled her eyes.
“Everyone should do what we did,” Ha
“Oh no. I like the whole big wedding thing,” Ellie disagreed. “I love weddings.”
“We know,” Joss, Jo, Liv, and Ha
Ellie glared at them, and Adam put his arm around her, pulling her in to his side. “Ignore them, sweetheart.”
“You love that I love weddings – don’t you?” she said to him, wide-eyed, still somehow managing to pull off this adorable thing even though she was in her late thirties.
“Absolutely,” her husband managed to say with a straight face.
Braden ruined it by grunting loudly in disbelief.
“Well, Grace and I will probably just make it a small do,” Logan a
I stiffened and felt Chloe’s hand grip my knee in reaction to the a
Maia gasped. “Are you getting married?”
“At some point,” Logan said, looking confused by everyone’s sudden alertness.
“But have you proposed?” Sha
“At some point I will.” He stared across the table at me, apparently looking for help.
I could only stare back in shock.
He had not mentioned marriage to me.