when we’re all together like this.”
“Actually,” Heather spoke first, “the more I think about it, the more I like the idea of a double wedding. Especially with you, Vicki. Right from the first time we met, I liked you. And over the past few years, you’ve become one of my closest friends.”
“I feel the exact same way.” Vicki grinned. “Let’s do it. Let’s pull a Sullivan first with a double wedding.”
“Boys,” Sophie called out. “It’s all decided.” She smiled as Zach and Ryan turned to face the women. “You’re having a double wedding. And it’s going to be awesome.”
Zach was at Heather’s side so fast it was as if he’d become one of his race cars. “Heather, we don’t have to do this just because—”
“I want to.” Heather put her hands on either side of Zach’s face, and Sophie’s heart melted at how much love she saw in her brother’s eyes when he looked at his fiancée.
Heather had utterly transformed Zach in all the best possible ways. So had the dogs, who must have realized that Zach and Heather had left the backyard and were now barreling in through the garage door to find them.
“All this time that we’ve been waiting to pick the date, maybe this was why,” Heather said. “Because we were supposed to do this with family—” She smiled at Ryan. “—and friends.” She turned her smile to Vicki.
Zach didn’t speak for a long moment, just searched Heather’s eyes as though he wanted to make absolutely sure that she wasn’t just trying to make his family happy with a double wedding. Only once the dogs had wiggled between them did he finally crack a smile. “If it’s what you want.”
“Don’t you?” She turned to where Ryan and Vicki were standing, holding hands. “I know you’re close to your whole family. But the two of you—”
“You’ve always been closest to each other,” Vicki cut in. She turned to Ryan. “I can see it already, how if you multiply what we feel for each other with what Heather and Zach feel—” Her smile was radiant. “—it’s going to be like all the love in the world is right there in Marcus’s vineyard on the fifteenth.”
Sophie could see that Ryan didn’t need any more convincing. Not when Vicki’s smile told him everything he needed to know. “If you’re in, so am I.” He kissed her before turning back to Zach. “You good with this?”
Zach looked at Heather one more time, looking for her smile, before he turned back to Ryan and nodded. “I’m good.”
Sophie breathed a silent sigh of relief as her brothers shook hands. Then she looped one arm through Heather’s and one through Vicki’s. “Now, if you’ll excuse us, we have some double-wedding planning to do.”
CHAPTER FOUR
The following day, more than half a dozen Sullivan women gathered together in Chase and Chloe’s living room. Those who couldn’t be there in person dialed in via Skype. The coffee table was laden with cheese, crackers, grapes, and Megan’s very organized lists of what needed to be done—and who was going to do it.
Heather had been running Top Dog, her dog-training and day care center in San Francisco, for almost a decade, and yet she was still boggled by the seemingly endless details of putting together a big family wedding with only two weeks’ notice. Granted, she’d never been all that focused on traditionally female things, like clothes or shoes or weddings. Sometimes it still made her laugh to think that she’d ended up with a man who knew more about those things than she did. Not that Zach wasn’t all man, of course. Just thinking of the decidedly alpha way he’d woken her up this morning had her shivering at the delicious memories.
He wasn’t only naughty—he was completely incorrigible. And she loved every single second of it.
There was no other man she’d ever let strip all of her defenses away. Only Zach.
“Thank God for you and your spreadsheets, Megan.” Heather smiled across the coffee table at her soon-to-be sister-in-law to reinforce her gratitude.
“You’ve already put so much time into working on the wedding,” Vicki agreed. Judging by the smears of white clay on her cheeks, hair, and hands, Heather guessed Vicki had come straight to the meeting from her studio. “We know you’re busy with two kids and your CPA business, so if you want us to take it from here—”
“Are you kidding?” Megan grinned. “I love spreadsheets. And using them to plan your double wedding is pretty much the