Page 47 of Hidden Vows (Love in Ashford Falls #3)

Do you know how happy you make me?

Seriously, Abbey. I know I’ve told you plenty over the last four months, but I don’t know how I survived without you.

I don’t know how I got lucky enough to get a second chance with you, but I’m taking it and I’m never letting you go.

We got married today.

It may be our second wedding, but in my heart I’ve always been married to you. You are the love of my life, and today I got to share that with everyone I hold dearest.

I thought you were beautiful at our first wedding (and you were), but today? Mo ghrá, I’ve never seen you shine so bright. Your joy was the greatest gift you could have given me (well, at least for another six months).

I know we said our vows under the oak tree in Dad’s backyard, with all of our loved ones surrounding us, and while I meant them with everything I am, they weren’t the ones I would’ve written.

So, my love, my greatest treasure, and my everything, before the clock strikes twelve and our wedding day is officially over, I want to make these vows to you.

I vow to keep you safe and warm in the shelter of my arms, always.

I vow to help you and support you with all that I am.

I vow to cherish you for everything you are, and everything you have yet to become.

I vow to keep choosing you and this life we’re building together.

I vow to grow with you and never apart from you.

I vow to love you every day as if it were my last.

I could go on and on, but you’re looking at me like it’s time to be done writing in this journal and I don’t want to disappoint you on our second first day as husband and wife.

I love you, Abbey Murphy, with all that I am and so much more.