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“What are we going to do?” I ask, tears stinging my eyes

“What we ca irl ofto stopelse can wait”

Chapter Nine

Darcy

I stand outside on the beach, digging my toes into the soft sand I’ for the signal that it’s tie of the water, where Lennon waits forto faint Well, why not? It’ll just be another thing to knock this wedding off track

God, I’m so nervous

I stare atI can’t believe I’m about to walk down there and estto let my nerves take over, because I know this is what I want

“You can do this,” Cindy whispers, next to me

I turn to her and nod How did she go frohter of my mother’s best friend, to my best friend, and one of the people I rely on the most? Now, I don’t knohat I’d do without her in my life

The ins to play, and I take one last deep breath, and start walking The sraciously, I hope—down the makeshift aisle, lined with potted palm trees and conch shells, the hotel has laid out on the sand, and toward Lennon

Holy crap, he looks so handsome

He’s wearing a black tuxedo, complete with a silver vest and tie His hair is perfectly styled, and his intense eyes stare at , and my heart skips a beat as I siddy, but it’s his s up a hurricane of emotions inside me I can’t focus on anyone but him

“Hello, beautiful,” Lennon says in a low voice when I reach the front of the rose-covered arch, and I’m so relieved to find a minister—any minister—there to marry us