Page 105 of Family Bonds: Coy & Angel

“I might be a little put out that I’m not your best man. We always talked about that too,” Spencer said.

He cringed. It had been a topic they had discussed before. He was close with his brothers, but it’d been known that Spencer would be above his brothers.

“You can be the ring bearer,” she said, laughing.

“At least it gives me something to do,” Spencer said. “And sorry, but I’m doing the best man toast. I mean it.”

“Deal,” he said. He wouldn’t have wanted it any other way.

No, life wasn’t meant to be planned out perfectly, but it appeared it was happening the way it was meant.

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BEST HUSBAND EVER

“It’s my wedding day,” Angel said to her mother the next morning, all but bouncing out of her skin.

“It is,” her mother said. “I’m so excited for this and you. Are you feeling better about things?”

“I am,” she said, dancing in place now. “I had to get past some of my doubts.”

“Do you doubt your love for Coy?” her mother asked.

They were in her hotel room now, talking. Their wedding was at one. She’d gotten up and had breakfast sent to her room that she was sharing with her mother now.

A last minute little pep talk in a way.

Not that she felt she needed it. But maybe she did need her mother.

The one who was always in her corner.

“Never,” she said. “There were moments in the beginning when I moved to Amore Island and started to see a different side of him that I didn’t realize existed.”

“Like what?” her mother asked. She sat back down to eat.

“Little things. The playfulness he had with everyone. I thought it was just me, but he’s fun in the office with everyone.”

“Flirting fun?” her mother asked, lifting an eyebrow.

“Never. Just a great guy. He’s loved by almost everyone. His patients and staff. He’s fair and considerate.”

“All the things you wanted and saw,” her mother said. “I don’t understand.”

“The wanting a lot of children and the big house,” she said. “I remember not seeing any candy or junk food right away when we had that cookout there.”

Her mother started to laugh. “You thought he was a health freak? That is what this is about?”

“It’s stupid,” she said, laughing. “I know. I’m just saying that, in the beginning, I started to realize the lens I saw him through as a teen was different than what he is daily as an adult.”

“I’d say you’ve adjusted and focused that lens more, don’t you think?”

“Absolutely. I’m sorry you aren’t getting to help me plan this big wedding you always dreamed of for me.”

“Stop apologizing. My dreams aren’t your dreams, Angel. Remember that. Your father and I have talked about this. He wanted the big wedding too, but the truth is, it’s not your personality. You’ve always been low key.”

“I worry that Coy will regret not getting it,” she said. “He’snotlow key.”

“I don’t think there is one thing he is going to regret. Do you believe that?”

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