arms and kissed her soundly.
“Do you still love me?” I asked, feeling a little afraid that she’d changed her mind in the last three months.
“Yes, I still love you. I always will.”
“Then say yes. Tell me you’ll marry me,” I said.
“You have to ASK,” she laughed.
“Fine,” I said with pretend annoyance, “will you please be my wife?”
“Yes, I will,” she said, and we kissed again.
Epilogue
Morgan - One Year Later
“Are you sure she doesn’t need a bib?”
“I put Olivia’s christening bib on her. She’s fine. Babies drool,” Elise said, “it’s okay. She looks adorable.”
I had to agree. Six-month-old Amelia O’Shea was wearing the sweetest white chiffon dress and cooing and slobbering in her daddy’s arms. He stood at the altar with Connor beside him, waiting for me. I squeezed Elise’s hand. She and Karin had basically planned the wedding for me, and it was beautiful. We were marrying on the beach and the reception would be in the pub now that it was repaired. It had taken months to reclaim what was lost—Billy’s strength, the roof and floor and pipes at the pub, the cabins at the resort. There had been a lot of damage, but the article I published had brought plenty of attention and relief aid to the island. We had rebuilt better and stronger than ever.
My travel blog was still fairly new, but it was up and running and had more than sixty thousand followers already, just on the strength of my personal photos and travel stories of trips I’d taken in the past. I was working to boost tourism to St. Martin, putting features every week on my blog about local excursions, restaurants, wildlife, anything to attract interest and business. My last article about Federico the resident iguana at the frozen lemonade place had gotten some celebrity retweets that I was optimistic about. We’d bring in more business and new life to the island, reinvigorate the economy that had been damaged by the storm. I’d travel again soon—first for our honeymoon—but my focus was on my family for the time being. My daughter Amelia and the man who was about to be my husband. The music began and I walked down the aisle to join Billy.
Brandi took Amelia from him and cradled her. I stopped to touch her sweet little face and kiss her head where she’d already pulled off her lacy headband. Then I took Billy’s hands in mine. I couldn’t believe how far we’d come, how beautiful this day was. That we were finally together and ready to pledge our lives to each other. He’d worked so hard at physical therapy, and he had gotten back to health after a long recovery. I knew that first hike we took together with Amelia in the baby backpack was such a milestone for him a couple of months ago. He was able to lead hikes three days a week now, and still met with his physical therapist and a trainer to build his strength and balance even more, to get him back to where he was before the storm. The storm itself had been terrible, a disaster, but what came afterward with everyone pulling together, with the O’Shea clan working as a team to bring everything and everyone back to the way it was or better, that had been a miracle to me.
So we said our vows and kissed. It felt like the first kiss of a new beginning where we had everything we’d ever wanted.
At the reception, Tommy was teaching Lilly his Irish step dance and she was sloshing frozen lemonade all over the place. Lucas was toddling around with Karin hovering close behind him. Billy and I raised a margarita glass in a toast.
“To St. Martin and the Irish boys who make it home,” I said.
“To the most beautiful, hard-headed woman I’ve ever met. I’ll never let you go,” he answered, and took my glass from me and set it down so he could kiss me exactly the way I needed to be kissed.
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