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Her mother was healing, and Cordelia was working on doing the same. She felt that so long as she had Dorian by her side, all things were going to be possible moving forward. It would be a whole new chapter for the pair of them to live alone in the great house, but it was an adventure that she was greatly looking forward to undertaking.

Before she knew it, applause came from every direction for the happy couple and Mary’s smile was so wide that it almost looked like it would split her face from how happy she was to be on her now husband’s arm.

The quartet played them out of the garden as they headed inside, but Mary stopped for but a moment just before she went into the house to look back for Dorian, who tightened his grip on Cordelia’s waist the moment that he caught Mary looking at him.

It was their own silent goodbye to one another as she smiled softly at her brother, and Cordelia almost felt as if she were witnessing something too intimate. At least, until Georgie jumped down off of his chair and started to sharply pull at her dress.

“Do we get to go to dinner now, Aunt Cordelia?”

Dorian sighed and bent to scoop his nephew up to carry him into the house after all the other guests. Her hands dropped to the rounded swell of her belly as she watched Dorian and Georgie speaking to one another. Her heart fluttered in her chest at the sight of it. She just knew that he was going to be a great father. Cordelia could not be more thrilled.

The End?