Aaron held her close for a long while, and Cadence gathered her thoughts before she finally pushed back a bit so she could look up at him. “I think you were right,” she said, her head bobbing up and down with conviction.

“I’m sure I was,” he said, a crooked grin on his face, “but what are you referring to?”

She laughed at his cocky response. “We should go ahead and get married while we’re here. Not because it will make the big wedding any easier but because ...