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"There’s only been three weddings in the Bradford fa up the bowl of pink goop and scooped so triuravy, but another discreet shake of Jason’s head had Haley quickly passing on that to take a sip of water

"And all three of those es ended with divorce in less than a reement from both Trevor and Danny, because every Bradford knew the family history, traditions and counties that they were still banned from by heart

Bradford men didn’t propose, because a proposal meant that he wasn’t out of his s or plan weddings, because if a Bradford h to do any of that shit, then he wasn’t really in love A Bradford ht realize early on that he’d found the woman of his drea to risk a kidnapping charge, he wasn’t ready forso Aunt Mary will throw a big party"

"Myto be a wedding," Danny pointed out, doing his best not to let his cousins kno e thes her off to Vegas and we get wind of it in ti hopeful while the rest of thee

"We’re still banned fro off his wife, who looked more confused than ever

"Wait," she said, frowning "I thought the ban was lifted," she said, looking around the table and undoubtedlynote of the fact that none of the aze

"There, u his throat, "was a so thatreinstated for another ten or fifty years"

"Wait a ly on her husband "Didn’t you have a layover last year in Nevada on your way to that convention in Texas for your father’s construction co nervously as he threw a panicked look Danny’s way, but Danny was a Bradford and knew a thing or two about saving his own ass even if it meant that he had to shovel questionable food into his ive himself the excuse that he needed to keep his mouth shut Trevor apparently had the sah of his wife’s cooking

"And when I asked you about the breaking news alerts that kept flashing across the bottoas you swore toto do with that," Haley said, herthat Jason and anyone duh to open his mouth was in deep shit

"Wait a minute," Zoe said, and just like that, Danny knew that Trevor was truly fucked, "you went on that trip, too!"

Every Bradford male orked for Uncle Jared went, but Danny didn’t bother to point that out since he was holad that he wasn’t married, one of the few ti to the altar with everything that they had, Danny was more than ready to settle down and start a fa to be thirty-two years old and he was still alone He’d always thought that he’d be settled by this point in his life with at least one kid on the way, but apparently life didn’t always turn out the way that you expected He certainly hadn’t expected to do half the shit that he’d done so far

When he’d been a kid he’d always thought that he’d follow in his father’s footsteps and go to et ed when he’d fucked up He’d been a cocky kid, too damn cocky Not only hadn’t he studied for the SATs because he’d been sure that he was going to ace the test right off the bat, but he’d also decided that he’d celebrate a pre-victory the night before by stealing his father’s beer out of the refrigerator in the garage and proceeded to get drunk