Chapter 49

• I gave him a polite smile and nodded. He returned the nod and added a wink for good measure. A wink was delivered with a look that said he was looking forward to our appointment tonight.
• But Jolene’s words rang in my ears too. And they stuck with me through the twenty-one-minute ceremony. My son blubbered through his vows — most of which he forgot — and ended inelegantly with, “I love you so much. I love everything about you. The way you move. The way you speak. The way you eat.” That got him lots of laughs, but it made me wonder if anyone had ever felt that way about me. Had Shannon?
• They kissed — boy, did they kiss. I couldn’t remember Jared ever kissing someone the way he kissed his new wife in front of me. It made that adage seem even more true. A son’s a son ‘til he takes a wife, but a daughter is a daughter all her life.