Sarah, who’d become more friend than lawyer over the months of our legal battle, served as our efficient. Mrs. Patterson from the boarding house cried through the entire ceremony.
Even the neighbors cat seemed to approve, purring contentedly from his perch on our back fence.
When it was over, when we’d kissed as husband and wife for the first time in 15 years, when we’d cut the small cake I’d baked myself, I felt something I’d almost forgotten existed.Get Marriage Tips
Complete happiness.
That night, lying in our own bed in our own house, I thought about the journey that had brought us here.
It had started with Richard’s cruelty, with his decision to value money over family, with his willingness to destroy the people who’d loved him most.
But it had ended with love triumphing over deception, with justice prevailing over fraud, with two people who’d been torn apart finding their way back to each other against impossible odds.