A Reborn Bride Pearl Emerging from Dust by Sally Garcia

"She actually scared the owner!"

"This is hilarious! Never seen anyone this good before!"

Off to the side, Norton grinned and asked, "So, wanna keep playing? If you're having fun, let's go another round. If not, we can just move on."

He already had his wallet half out, ready to pay for another game if Mavis said the word.

If she wanted to keep going, he'd pay without hesitation. But if she was done, he'd just take her hand and keep walking.

"I think that's enough," Mavis said, eyeing the arcade owner, who looked like he might burst into tears any second.

"These are just Nerf guns after all. Next time, let's do something a little more legit," she joked, handing the plastic blaster back.

"Honestly, yeah,” Norton agreed, laughing, "these toy guns just don't cut it. When we get back, I know this awesome paintball range out by the woods. It's a blast!"

"Deal," Mavis replied, handing the toy gun to the frazzled owner.

stammered, "Thanks for going easy

shop and call it a day, but clearly, these

accepting the stuffed animals

pretty cute. She figured she'd give one to

prizes were already mentally divided up for

a giant stuffed bunny slung

all the stuff, half amused and

hotel," she suggested. "Let me carry something, at least. We can split the

lets a lady carry all this? You just keep looking around, have fun, and

at all, lugging everything alongside her, grinning like this

good, always joking, always keeping things

him do so much, but the way he acted, she couldn't help

ways behind them in the crowd, Uriah watched, keeping his distance

better than most. She'd always been the type to keep people at arm's length, never

up the way she did, she learned early not to rely on anyone. She hated owing people. If she could do something herself,