Chapter 103
Chapter 103
The pillow. It had to be the pillow, Katrina wasn't used to how soft it was. That had to be it. Or maybe it was the sound of the wind ourside? Maybe it was too dark in the room?
Hrally, she knew the reason she was tossing and turning incessantly, was because she was in bed alone. She wasn't used to being alone. She was accustomed to Rylan practically smothering her at night with his legs and arms wrapped around her securely. He always insisted on being as close to her as possible, even when she protested. He knew she actually loved it, and that she craved the attention
from him.
But tonight Tonight, he demanded them both have their own rooms. He wanted to be traditional and not see her again until she was walking down. the aisle.
She thought it was ridiculous. A completely silly superstition that she didn't need to entertain. But Kylin wanted to do this right, he said.
So here she was, tossing and turning Uncomfortable and cold. Alone and annoyed.
She hadn't seen kylan all day. Going on twelve hours, to be exXCE
Aaron and Maine had kept she busy, and her dad did, too. But it wasn't the same. It wasn't enough.
She was about to get married. To Kylan. To the man she never thought she would be marrying, and the man marry, all along.
man that it
it only made sense for her to
e for he
She huffed, fluffing the pillow beneath her head again. She stared up at the ceiling for a moment. nightstand. blinking against the brightness of the screen before unlocking it moment, and then she grabbed her phone from off her
"I don't like this. I need your arms around me to sleep, she texted.
You be fine for one night," he replied.
She rolled her eyes, turning on her side to pout at her phone.
Tm not fine. I need you with me. This is silly."
"Go to deep, Katrina, I told you not to message me."
"Are she saying you don't miss me?"
"Heaven's sake. Of course, I miss you."
Then come here"
hours. Try and get some sleep, okay? We have a big day of socializing with way too
at the swear but not swear words. "Are you sure you want to marry me? Maybe you don't really
being ridiculous.
rolled her eyes.
before tossing it somewhere on the bed, huffing and squeezing her
-0-0-0-
because when she felt a pair of warm armas encircle her from behind, she jolted awake. "Relax, it's just mir" she
hands
her body immediately moving to be comfortable again his
tradition Go to sleep. Kylan
sleep,
"I love you."
she thought of her wedding day. When she dreamed of walking down a flower laced
a groom dressed to the nines at the end
pictured her father walking her down that same aisle, her arm clasped in his,
the weather would be like that day, or what the venue would
unique. Her thoughts weren't different, weren't surprising. Even the fake marriage she had with
was unique, was her love
was unique, was having Oscar and her father walking her
strong man on her left, the other
wedding in New Zealand, where green and all things lush, were as far
was unique, were the two chairs she kept open for Yasmin and Karina on the front row of the all white seating, a small bouquet of flowers
was unique, was the groom that waited for her. That watched she walk. That never took
To Kylan.
man that knew her. That loved her. That housed her heart and guarded it with his
no hesitation, no sense of foreboding or
only peace. Only
James in the third row, a smile on his face just like he promised, his hand clasped tightly in
glancing at her. She noticed how he smiled at her, really smiled at her. She noticed his questioning gaze filled with love return
her family. Not her
Just hum..
her with a hug and a kiss to her cheeks, she still smiled at him. And then she mehed, because
mint, his Kylan smell. And she felt complete. Whole in a way she had never felt
held her hands, and she held
barely heard the words the officiating
Kylan. Her best friend, her
the sunlight, the
scarcely heard her own voice when
of her, and he took out a piece of paper from his suit pocket that was folded four times,
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