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Chapters (92)
  1. First
  2. Love Connection
  3. Zero
  4. One
  5. Two
  6. Three
  7. Four
  8. Five
  9. Six
  10. Seven
  11. Eight
  12. Nine
  13. Ten
  14. Eleven
  15. One Month Later
  16. Twelve
  17. Thirteen
  18. Fourteen
  19. Fifteen
  20. Six Months Later
  21. Sixteen
  22. Seventeen
  23. Eighteen
  24. Nineteen
  25. Twenty
  26. Twenty-one
  27. Twenty-two
  28. Twenty-three
  29. Twenty-four
  30. Six Months Later
  31. Twenty-five
  32. Twenty-six
  33. Twenty-seven
  34. Twenty-eight
  35. Twenty-nine
  36. Thirty
  37. Thirty-one
  38. Thirty-two
  39. Thirty-three
  40. I Have Never
  41. One
  42. Two
  43. Three
  44. Four
  45. Five
  46. Six
  47. Seven
  48. Eight
  49. Nine
  50. Ten
  51. Eleven
  52. Twelve
  53. Thirteen
  54. Fourteen
  55. Fifteen
  56. Sixteen
  57. Seventeen
  58. Eighteen
  59. Nineteen
  60. Twenty
  61. Twenty-one
  62. Twenty-two
  63. A Christmas Date
  64. One
  65. Two
  66. Three
  67. Four
  68. Five
  69. Six
  70. Seven
  71. Eight
  72. Nine
  73. Ten
  74. Eleven
  75. Twelve
  76. Thirteen
  77. Fourteen
  78. Fifteen
  79. Sixteen
  80. Seventeen
  81. Eighteen
  82. Nineteen
  83. Twenty
  84. Twenty-one
  85. Twenty-two
  86. Note from the Author
  87. Sneak Peek – To the Stars and Back
  88. Two
  89. Three
  90. Four
  91. Also by Camilla Isley
  92. About the Author

“Today’s the best day of my life because you’re here with me. All I want to do is to protect you and make you as happy as I am today for all the days ahead of us. I vow to love you and stand by your side through everything life will throw at us. I promise to laugh with you, and cry with you, to love and honor you. To never let you go again and always find my way back to you, to us. I vow to love you even when it takes you an hour to order a pizza because you read the entire menu then just order a Margherita.”

I chuckle and the first tears roll down my cheeks.

“Gemma, you’re the person I want to grow old with, the person I want to see every morning when I wake up and the one I want to kiss goodnight. I promise to give you all of me and to love you, from this day forward, always.”

“Jake.” I pause to steady my trembling voice. “Today’s the happiest day of my life too. It took us a long time to get here, and some crazy moments…”

The crowd chuckles again. This time everyone knows what I’m referring to.

“I love you because you’re the best person I know. The kind of person who even a dying animal would trust with the most important thing she had.” I wave toward an iPad set on a pedestal. On the screen is our cat sitter in London, who’s following the ceremony via Skype with Lucky. She waves Lucky’s paw back.

“Today I give myself to you, completely. I vow to love you even when you make me cry with your incredibly romantic words, completely ruining my makeup on our wedding day.”

He brushes the tears away from my cheeks with his thumbs.

“Jake, from the night you kissed me for the first time my heart started to ache with how much I love you. It felt like my chest could no longer contain it as if it didn’t belong to me anymore. And it didn’t; it doesn’t because my heart belongs to you. It always has. Even when we were apart, you were always with me. You were my first love and I want you to be my last. You’re the only man I’ve ever loved, and I promise to love and cherish you from this day forward, always.”

Ten minutes later, we’re husband and wife.

Thirty-two

At the Altar

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Saturday, September 1—London