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“I got ordained, Pipe,” Kase whispered back. “My gift to you. Well, that and a crazy, scary looking coffee maker. Look surprised when you open it.”

I smiled. “Awesome.”

Kase looked up at everyone and began the ceremony. “Love is anarchy. It’s mayhem. You fight for it.Livefor it. You hold tight and push through the ugly times, ‘cause without them, you wouldn’t fully appreciate the beauty. And that’s what Jake and Piper have. A love that they’ll work to grow over the lifetime I’m doubtless they’ll spend together.” Kase stopped to smile at Jake. “Jake’s been like a brother to me for years, so I’m gonna do him a solid and make this fast. He’s waited long enough for this day.” Kase handed him something.

“With this ring, I give you me.” Jake’s voice was barely above a whisper as he slid a beautiful platinum and diamond band on my finger.

I turned and took the ring Ray held out to me before looking back at Jake. “That’s all I’ve ever wanted.” I ran my fingertips quickly along his jaw. “With this ring, I give you me.” I slid the thick, platinum band on his finger.

Jake’s newly ringed hand went to my neck. “It’s only you.”

“Jake, do you?” Kase asked.

“I do.”

“Piper, do you?”

My heart pounded in my throat as my mouth rushed to get out the words. “I do.”

“I ho’okahi kahi ke aloha,” Kase said in Hawaiian, smiling wide. “Be one in love, Mr. and Mrs. Jacoby and Piper Hyde. Not that you’ve ever needed prompting, but you may now kiss your bride.”

“Mine,” Jake growled as his head came down.

“Forever,” I whispered against his lips.

*******

Jake

Perfection.

I’d thought it so many times. But nothin’, fuck,nothin’was more perfect than hearin’ Piper become my wife.

Mine.

I’d known from the very first time I saw her in the shop, lookin’ like a porn star librarian, that there was somethin’ more. Somethin’ about her that screamed to me. It grabbed me and pulled me to her, wrappin’ me in her, makin’ me feel like my world started and ended with her.

It was only her.

And, as she stood next to me, so fuckin’ sexy I was fightin’ gettin’ hard in front of our friends and family, she gave meeverythin’.

Lookin’ up at me like I was the only one there, like I was her dragon slayin’ prince, she was only herself.

It was all she’d ever been.

It was all she would be.

And that was perfection beyond anythin’ I could imagine.

Epilogue

Piper

After four days in Vegas, most of which was spent in our room, Jake and I continued our honeymoon in Hawaii. We spent a week and a half in our secluded cabana, naked, or on our private beach, close to naked.

And, occasionally, totally naked.

Like on our first night in Hawaii, when Jake stripped me down on a blanket in the sand and made love to me under a velvet sky.