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“I only wanted the best for you. Nick is it.” Deidre said, standing back and looking Biloxi over head to toe.

  “Wait just a minute. You tried to dissuade Nick from dating me.”

  “Honey, if a man is so easily put off by a girl’s mother, then he doesn’t deserve her. It was my reverse psychology.” Deidre winked.

  “What am I going to do with you?” Biloxi kissed her mother’s check.

  Deidre shrugged. “I don’t know? Help me find a good woman for Linc when it’s time? Right now, we’re going to have pictures made, and then get you to the church for the wedding.”

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  After the priest proclaimed Biloxi and Nick husband and wife, Nick held out his arm to escort his bride down the aisle. Tucking her hand in the crook of his arm, he said, “I can’t believe this day is finally here. I have the perfect wife. Dreams do come true. And, I have a special gift for you.”

  Biloxi lifted her chin and looked up. Her expressive eyes twinkled and conveyed her feelings. Just a look from her made his heart race like a randy stallion.

  “I love you madly,” she said. The softness of her tone, along with the conviction it carried warmed him. He’d been right to wait for the perfect woman. She was everything and more. Because of her, her compassion and understanding, his immediate family had begun to heal after his grandfather died. Now with his half-sister appearing, only to be abandoned by her mother again, Biloxi had smoothed the way, opening her heart and arms with love to the teenager. His love for her swelled.

  “You know, chèr.” He paused when they reached the church doors. “We’re a southern Romeo and Juliet with a happy ending.” He kissed her soundly. The crowd in the pews behind them burst into applause as they began to file out of the church around the couple.

  “Guess we get to write a new ending to that story.” Biloxi grinned. Her face shone with joy and love.

  “Let’s go,” Nick said, crossing the threshold. He couldn’t wait to see her expression. Linc had parked the car at the end of the sidewalk. Would she recognize it?

  She laced her fingers through his, then stopped suddenly. “What’s that?”

  Nick grinned. “That, Mrs. Trahan, is your chariot.”

  “I don’t understand.”

  “Rather than getting you a horse and carriage, I’m giving you horse power. Do you recognize the car?”

  She paused. Their eyes locked, then she stared for a moment at the car.

  “In the French Quarter, that was me in this—the day you went to visit my mother. I never mentioned it. I wanted to confront you, I wanted answers, but I couldn’t give away this surprise. And that’s all in the past. Think of the fun we’ll have driving along the beach with the wind in our hair, the stars shining overhead, and the sound of the surf to relax us.”

  “I…I never dreamed…”

  “I love you.” Nick pulled her gently into his arms as though none of the cheers and chatter from friends and relatives was taking place around them. In that moment, only they existed in their own cocoon. After placing a kiss on her lips, Nick said, “Our future awaits.”

  A word about the author…

  Linda Joyce is an Amazon Best-Selling author who writes about assertive females and the men who can’t resist them in her Fleur de Lis and Fleur de Lis Brides series.

  Linda’s a big fan of jazz and blues. She attributes her love of those musical genres to her southern roots, which run deep in Louisiana. If you walk through several New Orleans cemeteries you’ll find many of her people buried there.

  She penned her first manuscript while living in Japan, the country where her mother was born and raised. Now she lives in Atlanta, Georgia with her husband and their four-legged boy, Beau, who thinks she’s his pet.

  www.linda-joyce.com

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