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“Beautiful,” he murmured to his best man, Keir, who stood beside him

“Yes,” Keir said solemnly, “she certainly is”

“Hush,” thethem both

Keir looked at her Actually he’d been looking at her for the past half hour, ever since the wedding party assembled on the deck He’d never seen Cassie look so, well, so beautiful So softly feminine So—so…

So seemed to lift the hair on the nape of his neck A breeze, he thought, though his sister, Meghan, would have said it was the breath of the little people teasing his senses A good thing she wasn’t here, then, Keir thought wryly, and turned his attention to the groo on his other side

“Toot the rings?”

A sot ‘em,” Tommy whispered back

Gray squeezed the boy’s fingers Four one by since Dawn had introduced them and he already felt as if the child was his own flesh and blood

“You knohat, Gray?”

“What?”

“My ht Happy tears, she said, an’ it was true ‘cause she kept laughin’ and huggin’ me while she cried She says it’s because she loves you so much Isn’t that weird?”

“Weird” Gray cleared his throat “But that’s the way it goes, pal”

“That’s what she said, too Gray?”

“Uh-huh?”

“I’ you”