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He turns to bring me around to his side. “Hey, darlin’.” He tilts my chin up to kiss me.

“Hey, husband. Do you want to have one more dance before we call it a night?”

My friends come over and join us. Livi seems to be having a good time with Liam, which means I’ll have to ask her about that later. Mia has a bottle of Fireball in her hand, and Charlie has some red shot cups in hers.

“Okay, before these two take off, let’s do a celebratory shot together!” Peyton claps.

Everyone takes a cup from Charlie, and Mia fills hers and passes the bottle around the group. Once everyone has a full cup, Archie raises his.

“Emma and I …” He looks down at me. “I can speak for us both, right?”

I can’t help but laugh. “Yeah, babe, you can.”

“Emma and I would like to thank you all for being here with us today. We love y’all like family, and it means the world to us that you could be here.”

“Um, Arch, I am your family.” Aiden speaks up. He has possibly been dipping into some other drinks tonight.

“Dude, don’t ruin my flow.” Archie smiles and shakes his head. “Anyway, thanks for being there for us today and every day. Cheers to the best group of friends we could ask for!”

“Cheers!” everyone chimes.

“All right, darlin’, let’s go have that dance.” He takes my hand and leads me out to the dance floor.

Our wedding song was “I’m Gonna Love You” by Cody Johnson and Carrie Underwood, and it was perfect for us. But the song that starts playing is “Speechless” by Dan + Shay.

I wrap my arms around his shoulders. “Archie, thank you for making this day everything that I wanted. It was everything I dreamed, truly. And how lucky did we get that Lainey was also good? I was worried she was gonna start up when she saw us at the altar. I thought we might be saying our vows with our baby between us.”

He huffs a laugh. “Yeah, she sure is a perfect baby. I think she knew we needed our moment together. Baby, you nearly took my breath away when I saw you coming toward me. I’m happy you got to have your day. And to think, we were gonna rush it.” He winks at me.

“Ha! Yeah, Lainey definitely had different plans for us. But I’m actually glad everything turned out this way. I got to take the time with my mom and yours to make it special. Not that it wouldn’t have been great to get married sooner, but we were able to focus on her, and we needed to.” I run my hands up to his neck and into his hair. “Now, I feel like we were able to really enjoy the day and remember it, you know?”

“I know what you mean. I think it turned out exactly how it was supposed to though.” His hands start to move lower down my back, and then he leans in and kisses me.

I can taste the cinnamon from the shot on his tongue, and I suck on it, making him groan. With him pressed into me like this, I can feel his erection against my stomach. All the kissingand touching and anticipation of having him to myself tonight makes me feel like I’m waiting to erupt.

I pull back, but my lips are still touching his. “I’m so ready to get out of here. What do you say, Cowboy? You up”—I run my hands down his back and over his nice, tight ass, then pull him into me even more—“for a ride?”

A slow, sexy smile spreads across his face, and he kisses my lips again. “Giddyup, darlin’.”