Page 101 of So in Love
Epilogue
Ribbon Ridge, April, One Year Later
“Wow, that really does look just like the picture,” Crystal said, shading her eyes as she stood in front of the Bird’s Nest Ranch farmhouse being built for the film.
Jamie stared at her profile, thinking she grew more beautiful every day.“It does.”He slipped his arm around her waist and drew her close.“Think it’ll be ready to start filming on Monday?”
“It will.Movie schedules are always behind—or so it seems.”She turned in his arms, the breeze blowing her hair against his face.
He tucked it behind her ears and kissed her, his lips lingering on hers.“You ready for our surprise?”
“I better be, right?”
He frowned, but his eyes still sparkled, so she could tell he wasn’t really worried.“Uh-oh, you aren’t getting cold feet, are you?”
She curled her hand around his neck.“Never.Especially not with the effort it took to pull this off without anyone knowing.”
“We had alittlebit of help.”
“True, but if I’ve learned anything about living in Ribbon Ridge, it’s that the Archers can make things happen.”
Jamie laughed.“Amen.”
“There you are,” Cam said, hiking up the slight incline, his hand in Brooke’s.“Dinner’s going to be ready soon.”
Brooke and Crystal exchanged a brief hug.
Brooke shook her head.“Wow, it’s so crazy to see this for real.Like a dream come true.I can hardly wait to put together the museum.”
Once the filming was done, Crystal and her friends planned to transform the farmhouse into the official Ribbon Ridge museum.Kelsey and Crystal were going to run it together—in their spare time, which made Jamie laugh.His fiancée was the busiest woman he knew.And her life was about to get even busier with production starting.
“Me too,” Crystal said, beaming.
“Oh!Before I forget.”Brooke whipped out her phone and showed Crystal a picture.“Thirty weeks.”
Crystal took the phone and looked at it with Jamie.The image showed a petite brunette with a rounded belly.“Wow!She looks great,” Crystal said.
Brooke and Cam were expecting their first child via a surrogate, and Jamie was thrilled to have another niece or nephew—they didn’t know the sex of the baby.
“Thanks,” Brooke said, taking the phone back.“It’s a dream come true.”She looked over at Cam, who lifted her hand to his mouth so he could press a kiss to the back.
“Should we head down for a glass of wine?”Cam said.
Jamie nodded, taking Crystal’s hand in his.“Definitely.”
“When will we be able to drink the Dorinda varietal?”Crystal asked as they headed down the hill toward the massive tents that had been set up.They’d be used for production crews, but tonight were the location for a preproduction dinner attended by a couple of hundred Ribbon Ridgers, plus all of Crystal’s family from Blueville.
“Next spring, we’ll sample from the barrel,” Cam said.Luke had planted the new vineyard block this winter.
“I just love that you guys named a vineyard after her,” Crystal said.
“Dorinda is a part of that land.It was important to us to commemorate her legacy.And Hiram’s.”They’d renamed their chardonnay block after him.
Jamie and Crystal walked into the tent where people were gathered.Luke and Kelsey greeted them, and Cam and Brooke started to veer off.
“Hey, don’t go too far,” Jamie said to Cam.
Cam looked confused.“Why?”
