Mail-Order Brides For Christmas - Frankie Love Page 0,99
of my measurements at one point in the application process.
Once I’m ready, in all but my dress, I stand at the end of the bed staring down at it.
There are so many things that people could say is wrong about this. My parents aren’t here, hell, they don’t even know about it. Spencer and I no longer know each other, along with a million other reasons why this could be described as crazy and reckless, but to me, it couldn’t be more perfect.
It was always the two of us, and that’s how we’re going to go into this new chapter of our lives.
“Twenty minutes, Ella,” Spencer calls through the door, causing butterflies to take flight in my belly.
I’m about to marry my best friend. I don’t think I’ve ever been more excited.
“Okay, I’ll be down in a second.”
I somehow manage to get myself into my dress and do up the zipper without any help. I check myself over in the mirror before tucking my wallet and cell into the purse and pulling the door open.
I descend the stairs on weak knees to find Spencer waiting for me in a tan pair of pants and white button-down, although he’s got his back to me.
“Spence?” I whisper before sucking in a deep breath and steeling myself for him seeing me.
He turns so slowly that I think he’s never going to get all the way around but the second he sees me his eyes widen and his chin drops.
“Gabby,” he gasps. “Shit, sorry.”
“It’s okay. Do I look ok—”
“You’re breathtaking.”
“The dress, it’s…”
“Like the one you always wanted.”
“How? How did you remember?”
He shrugs. “It just felt right. Here, I’ve got something else for you.”
He reaches into his pocket and pulls out a box. I recognize the Tiffany blue immediately and my heart somersaults.
“I hope you like it,” he says nervously. As he passes it over, his hand trembles. It’s the most endearing thing I think I’ve ever seen. I look up and into his eyes. I can read everything he wants, see all his true feelings about my return that he tried to hide yesterday behind his anger. He wants this. He wants this as much as I do.
I take the box from him and pull the top off.
Inside, I find a beautiful locket with a floral design engraved in it and a cluster of diamonds in the center.
“Open it.”
“Okay.” I pull it from its setting and pass the box back to him, seeing as there’s nowhere to put it.
I tuck my nail under the clasp and pop it open.
“Holy shit,” I gasp. “How’d you…”
“Can I?” he asks, stepping forward and taking it from me. I lift my hair as he walks around my back to put it on.
I allow him, while the image inside of us as kids stays in my mind.
“Spencer, how’d you get this so fast?”
“I didn’t. I was going to give it to you at homecoming, but you—”
“Left,” I finish for him.
“Yeah. I should have gotten rid of it. I almost did a few times, but I just couldn’t do it. I dug it out last night.”
“It’s perfect, Spencer. I love it so much.” I bite my tongue as words I don’t want to say to him yet almost follow.
“I’m glad. Shall we?”
“Yes.”
We’re both silent on the journey to the courthouse in the car that Spencer had ordered, both lost in the strange turn of events in the past twenty-four hours.
They’re expecting us when we arrive and after a short wait, I’m handed a bouquet that I’m told Spencer organized to have here for me before I’m being shown into the room where my soon-to-be husband is waiting for me.
He looks over at me the second the doors are pulled open and it’s like he’s seeing me for the first time once again.
“Hey,” I say once I join him at the front of the room.
“Fancy seeing you here,” he jokes.
The officiant gets to work and before I know it, we’ve exchanged rings that Spencer had also organized, and we’re being announced as husband and wife.
“You may kiss your bride.”
A wide smile spreads across my face thinking that he’s finally going to kiss me properly, but when he leans toward me all he does is press his lips to mine in a chaste kiss.
Disappointment floods me, and I start to wonder if I’d imagined his excitement about this in the past hour. Maybe I’ve been wrong, maybe all of this is just one-sided and I’ve just been blindsided by the romance in