Page 76 of Suddenly Desired
“Oh, crap,” Ellie muttered, looking out the window.
Devlin Storm stood laughing while Lissa and Blake’s parents sprinted across the yard, trying to wrangle a goat that was currently devouring a wedding bouquet.
“Is it Bob?” Blake laughed. “It’s always Bob.”
The back door slammed open and Christian strolled in. His black Henley was unbuttoned, showing off abs that had half their wedding guests swooning.
Behind him, Darcy appeared, barefoot and grinning, her dark hair a mess from unscheduled goat herding.
Christian leaned against the doorframe, effortlessly cool as always, arms folded across his chest. “You two done sneaking off?”
“Hardly,” Blake said, voice low.
Christian raised a brow. “Not my business, Blake, but your honeymoon is going to be short-lived if your parents get eaten by your goats.”
“Oi, newlyweds!” Devlin grinned, appearing behind Christian and Darcy, throwing an arm around Christian’s shoulder. “We have a situation.”
Ellie sighed. “Definitely Bob.”
“I swear to God, Ellie,” Blake groaned, pressing a kiss to her shoulder. “You promised me no more goats and we adopted your mum’s whole herd. How did that happen?”
She smiled up at him. “Because you love me. And Mum values her veggies enough to get sheep instead. She saw us coming.”
Devlin burst out laughing. “See, this is why I love you guys. Your naivety is so cute.”
Blake shot him a glare. “You know, Storm, there’s a spare stall in the barn. I can absolutely put you in it.”
Devlin clapped a hand over his heart. “Kinky, Fielding. But I’m taken.” He winked at Darcy.
Darcy rolled her eyes, but her cheeks pinked.
“All right, farmhands,” Christian said, pushing off the doorframe. “Let’s go wrangle this menace before Bob eats the cake.”
Blake groaned. “If that goat gets the cake, I swear—”
Ellie laughed. “Come on, Mr Fielding.”
“Mr Fielding-Woodward,” Blake corrected, grinning like a man who had everything he ever wanted.
Ellie’s heart expanded to bursting.
This was it. Their life. Messy. Perfect. Full of chaos and love and goats.
And she wouldn’t trade it for anything.
She glanced towards the kitchen table, where her trusty old laptop sat, still open.
“You coming?” Blake called.
“Yeah,” she said, grinning. “Just a second.”
She tapped open her profile page on LifeWrite.
A single line stared back at her:
Ellie Mae is now married!
She clicked ‘update’ and snapped the laptop shut, turning to run after the man who had changed her life for ever. For the first time in her life, Ellie knew without a doubt that she was exactly where she was meant to be. She’d spent years believing she wascursed, that happiness would always be just out of reach. But she’d been wrong.
She hadn’t been cursed. She’d just been waiting for the right person to share it all with.
And now she had him.
THE END