“Your mother knows her place,” he says. “She is the one I’m married to. What I do on my private time in the privacy of my space is mine.”

“Get out.” I shake my head and walk to the desk, grabbing the phone number of the judge who is going to marry us. I walk to the door now.

“You think you’re better than me. You’ll be just like me,” he says almost proud of himself. “It runs in the family.”

“Then I must be adopted,” I say, “because there is no way I would do that to someone I love.”

“Ask your future wife about what is expected of her. I’m sure her mother has taught her well,” he says, and my stomach lurches.

“You think I don’t know you are sleeping with her mother.” I shake my head. “You think you’re so slick, but you’re not. I was sixteen, and I was supposed to be at Jacob’s house that weekend, but I didn’t feel well, and I came home early.”

“I didn’t know,” he says, and I shake my head.

“Don’t pretend you care now,” I say, walking out of the room. “I’m having the locks changed.”

He starts yelling, but I ignore him as I get into the truck. I have one more stop before picking up Ethan and Jacob.

We walk into my house, and I have to stop in my tracks because it has been transformed. Tea lights are hung in the trees everywhere. The willow tree in the back is almost lit up, and candles make a path to where a white canopy is set up.

“You have ten minutes,” Kallie says, and I nod, going to the bathroom to change. When I walk out, I’m wearing the suit that I bought that day, and Charlotte is there with a flower, pinning it to my jacket.

“You look so handsome,” she says, kissing my cheek. “I’ll see you out there,” she says, and Jacob comes now.

“Are you ready?” he asks, and I just smile.

My whole chest fills up when I answer him. “I’ve never been more ready for anything in my whole life.”

Chapter Twenty-Two

Savannah

“It’s time.” I hear Cristine, Jacob’s mom, say as she comes in and looks at me with a smile. “You look …” She puts her hands on her chest. “So beautiful.” She smiles and walks out of the room, leaving me with Kallie and Olivia.