The Best Friend's Contract novel Chapter 27

My eyes are focusing into her blue ones as they meet mine.

She hasn't heard of my vows yet when we were busy preparing because apparently, according to Dimitri . . . my vows were horrible. So, I had a last minutes planning last night when I wasn't able to get a proper sleep. Hopefully, it'll be better than saying something simple but at least, it's not from the internet and sincerely from my heart and mind.

''Kenna, today . . . all other things melt away as I look at you and love you beyond all reason and beyond all ideal. I stand outside by myself and join with you my loving wife in our new life. From you, I've learned how to dream and what it is to have a loving partner who supports your dreams. I vow to help you in your dreams and desires, and to create a life, and a loving home as your best friend, your husband.'' I say with a smile on my face, including hers.

''Even after all we've been through, I still can't believe that I'm the one who gets to stand here and have you as my wife. I love you,'' I add before blinking a few times, not realising the words to have escaped my mouth but covering it quickly with another smile.

She smiles back, ''Aidan . . . it is clear to me now that everything in my life has led me to you. I think back on all my choices and consider even the bad ones blessed, because if I had done one thing differently, I might have never met you and become your wife. Technically speaking, if I hadn't gone to the same kindergarten as you, we might've never met.'' She says and the crowd starts to chuckle because believe it or not, most of them know about how we met.

''On this day, I'd like to admit how wrong I have always been. Love is not blind, in fact love sees all. I love all of you, Aidan. Your faults and flaws cast a beautiful light—like the flaws of a precious jewel. You are everything to me, my best friend. We've spent twenty-years, two hundred and forty months and seventy-three hundred days together. I can't wait for more,'' She ends with a grin, plastered on her face.

Dimitri walks up to give us the rings, instantly letting us exchange rings.

''I now pronounce you husband and wife. You may kiss the bride,'' The priest says and my heart skips a beat as my hands go up to cup onto her face, leaning in.

Glancing one last time into her blue eyes before looking down at her lips, I see they're curving up into a smile as our lips meet. Our eyes close at the sudden jolts of electricity overflowing in my veins which causes me to deepen the kiss, ignoring the claps and the woos coming from the crowd as if there's only the two of us.

As I break the kiss, I find myself instantly looking up into her eyes. The sudden sparks were new and they were something I've never felt before—no matter how many times I've kissed someone on the lips. Not even Kenna when we've kissed, twice in the past month.

''Did you feel that?'' I whisper as she looks at me in confusion but before she can ask me the reason to my question, we're being congratulated by the crowd and Dimitri has already pulled both of us into a bone-crushing hug; trying my best not to die out of suffocation.

''That was really cute,'' Dimitri says before letting us go.