Total pages in book: 32
Estimated words: 30857 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 154(@200wpm)___ 123(@250wpm)___ 103(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 30857 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 154(@200wpm)___ 123(@250wpm)___ 103(@300wpm)
And that night we made a memory I’ll never forget. Hudson making love to me with the dark snowy Colorado mountain as our backdrop. We came together, in a harmony that fit the moment perfectly and as I clung to the man I loved, he brushed his lips against my ear and whispered, “You owe me a cupcake.”
I laughed because he was funny… but mostly because that’s all I ever wanted to do now that he was mine. Love, sex, laugh.
Heaven.
Epilogue
Winterhaven Hotel
Eighteen Months Later
It was August, the slopes were closed and wouldn’t open until skiing season restarted in November, but the stunning Winterhaven Inn was open to a private event.
A small but beautifully organized wedding. Even if, as the wedding planner, I did say so myself.
Since it was my wedding I could get away with it.
I thought I’d feel nervous on my wedding day but my butterflies were excited ones because I couldn’t wait to change my name to Autumn Ward. Couldn’t. Freaking. Wait!
The last eighteen months had been a challenge but one that Hudson and I overcame with the ease of two people who loved each other enough to make anything work. I’d extended my holiday by a week in Colorado to meet his parents and his brother. Thankfully, they liked me. Like a lot. It came as no surprise that Hudson’s family was as loving as he was.
The hard part came when Hudson decided to come back to Scotland with me to meet Killian and Skylar.
Killian did not make it easy at first, but he soon came to admire Hudson’s straight-talking. He pretty much told Killian that he loved me, I loved him, and if Killian loved me as much as he was supposed to he’d get over his shit and give Hudson a chance.
It was exactly the right thing to say to my brother and thanks to Skylar, who had turned him into a romantic even if he wouldn’t admit it, Killian gave Hudson a chance. We stayed for a month before it was time to head back to Colorado for Hudson’s work. During that month Killian proposed to Skylar and I was content in the knowledge that I didn’t miss out on that moment.
However, the idea of me moving to the US did not go down well with Killian. In fact, our relationship became a little strained when I moved to Colorado. Hudson had to work overtime to help me adjust to my new life.
I busied myself setting up my new event management company—something that was not easy to get off the ground but I worked my arse off and with a little help from Susan and word of mouth, I started to get work and my portfolio began to grow. Skylar got Killian on a plane and they spent a month with us that May. They flew over a couple more times during the summer and between that and video chatting I didn’t feel like I was missing out too badly. Over time, Killian realized the depth of Hudson’s love for me and that he had a good family who showed me a lot of love, too, and the strain between us disappeared.
Come November, Hudson and I flew back to Glasgow but we didn’t stay for six months. I had my company now and so did Hudson, and the truth was that Killian and Skylar could move to Timbuktu and I’d never lose them. No matter where we were, we had each other.
Hudson and I stayed in Glasgow all through Christmas (something that didn’t go down well with his family and was one of the aforementioned challenges we had to face) and the month of January. In early February, I stood beside Skylar as her maid of honor as she and Killian married in secret in Loch Lomond. Only me, Hudson, our friend Eve who used to work for Killian, Skylar’s ex bandmates Brandon and Austin and their respective dates, and her manager Gayle attended. Her other ex-bandmate and just plain old ex, Micah, declined to attend for obvious reasons.
The press didn’t find out about their marriage until four weeks later when Skylar and Killian were spotted by paparazzi in Los Angeles wearing wedding bands.
After my brother’s private wedding, Hudson and I headed home to the US. Hudson got in some skiing time before the slopes closed and I returned to planning events, including our own wedding.
I should note that Hudson proposed to me the day after we arrived back in Colorado a year before Skylar and Killian’s wedding. Of course I said yes, but while Hudson wanted to get married right away, I wanted my brother to be truly happy for me before I asked him to walk me down the aisle.
I needed him to know he was doing the right thing by giving me away to Hudson.