Chapter 299

“About damn time,” he murmured for her ears alone.

Through her happy tears, she smiled, and Trees swore he’d do whatever he could to put that smile of pure joy on her face every day.

Their lips clung. He breathed her in as he soaked in the moment—his first as her husband. The rightness of that hit him in the heart, and in some ways, Trees felt as if he was just starting his life.

Then he took her hand and ushered her back down the aisle. He’d love to keep running straight to their tricked-out honeymoon suite he’d booked at a posh hotel in Baton Rouge before they left for a week at a cabin on the lake where he’d spent summers as a kid. She wanted to know more about his childhood while he taught her to fish. He was dying to show her all about cuffs, blindfolds, and clamps while he reminded her how to scream.

First, they had to make it through the reception.

After an amazing toast from Zy that made everyone both laugh and cry, Valeria followed with a movin