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“Okay,” he said. “Let’s go get married.”

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Less than an hour later, he was standing in the chapel at the altar. As the music played, he looked over the guests that were sitting in the pews. Neither of them had much family between them. With Rafael in jail, Abel’s parents and Camilla’s dad long gone, most of the people around the room were friends and employees from the restaurant. The gathering was small, but that was okay with Abel. He never wanted a big wedding anyway.

As he stood there, nervously, Charlie standing by his side, he thought over the last three years. Mostly, he was thinking about how all this started…with the two of them at each other’s throats. Her with her anal-retentive way of doing things and him with his laid-back approach to everything. In the pressure of the moment, he found himself trying to remember the exact moment when he saw past her tough exterior and started to see her. He then started to wonder when the moment was when she started to really see him. He thought about Rafael and how he’d gone to such lengths to keep the two of them apart and how in the end, all his efforts failed him.

At Rafael’s trial, he told the judge he was sorry for what he’d done. He said it so sincerely that Abel might’ve believed him if he hadn’t heard him say it the exact same way so many times before. Abel and Camilla sat in the gallery watching his brother plead to the judge for clemency, wondering if Rafael would ever really learn anything from all this. Abel had been to prison. He knew how hard of a lesson it was to learn for some people.

And in the end, he couldn’t help but wonder if this was what it was to have a soulmate. Despite it all, the two of them were together. And they’d managed to do it against some pretty strange odds. When Rafael was sentenced (to life imprisonment), Abel promised himself that despite it all, he would keep his word and visit him from time to time. Rafael didn’t deserve his brother’s kindness, but he was going to give it anyway.

The organ music started up and suddenly, he felt a rash of sweat break out in his armpits and his stomach started to turn. Here comes the bride. Any second…

He felt Charlie’s hand in his suddenly and a calm came over him. “You got this,” the boy whispered.

He smiled down at Charlie. The kid really was a great best man and a rather good hype man. It was nice to have him on his side. He looked forward to helping Camilla raise him.

He looked up again. Camilla was walking down the aisle towards him. Her wedding dress was a silky, form-fitting dress with a long train behind her. She had a lace covering over her arms and shoulders and rhinestones in the thin veil over her face…and she was smiling at him, her blue eyes shining through the screen of the veil.

This was it. This was what it all led up to. As she reached him and he touched her hands, he smiled down at her. All the nerves were gone. Of course, this was his path. This was where he was supposed to be. It was always going to be the two of them. Camilla and Abel against the world.

The End

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Contents

Prelude

1. Chapter One

2. Chapter Two

3. Chapter Three

4. Chapter Four

5. Chapter Five

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