Free Stolen: Meant To Be (Contemporary Billionaire Romance) by Holly Rayner

tired of hate and negativity. I want to go into my marriage and my new life with Seth with nothing threatening to come between us. I know that we will argue… probably mostly over the business, but you are the only family that either of us have. I don’t want him to do without his father for my sake and I don’t want children we have someday to do without a grandfather.” I put the deed to my chest and glanced over at Seth who was eyeing us nervously. I was sure that if I wanted James thrown out on his ear and ordered never to return, Seth would do that for me. Just knowing that was enough. “I want to bury all of this bad stuff from the past and move forward.” I looked down at the deed then and couldn’t help smiling as I said, “I want to get married in my own backyard.”
     

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    CHAPTER NINE
     
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    ADELE
     
     
    The flower girl was dressed in a beige lace dress with a halo of fresh flowers twisted through her long brown hair. She stood at the end of the aisle next to the little ring bearer, all dressed up in his tiny little black tuxedo and holding a pillow to which the rings we would wear for the rest of our lives were attached. As the music began they started walking and the little girl threw white flower petals out of the delicate basket she carried on her arm. The flower girl was Harlan’s granddaughter and the ring bearer was a distant cousin of Seth’s. We didn’t know many children, so for our wedding we’d had to search for these two. As I stood watching from the white bridal tent, I gently lay my hand across my stomach and hoped that would all change soon.
     
    I watched their procession to the altar where Seth and his best man and groomsmen waited. I couldn’t see Seth’s face from here, but I could see how sharp the rest of him looked in his white tuxedo with black tie and cummerbund. He was so handsome that he still took my breath away sometimes the way he had that first day I’d walked into his office. I never dreamed that we would be here… I would have told anyone who said this would ever happen that they were insane, but here we were.
     
    The yard was decorated in beige and gold, and white flowers adorned everything in sight. The chairs for the guests were covered in lace and the wedding cake glistened from underneath another tent not far away. The little pond had been filled with rose petals and the scent of all the flowers filled my nose. I hadn’t wanted a big, fancy wedding, but Seth and I hadn’t wanted to insult anyone who might have expected to be invited either. Being CEO’s of such a large company meant lots of clients and business associates that would at least hope for, if not expect, an invitation. Then there were the people from the society that Seth had grown up in. He wasn’t a huge part of that world any longer, but there were some families that had been close to theirs since before he was born. He didn’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings or leave anyone out.
     
    We compromised and I got to have it outdoors in the backyard of my family home that Seth and I would soon be moving into… and it was large enough for almost three hundred guests.
     
    The weather was a perfect, warm day in May and the sun shone down on the wedding party and guests below as my matron of honor, my friend Elise from college, walked down the aisle now. My stomach was full of butterflies but not because I had any doubts about doing this, but because I couldn’t wait. Seth and I have been living together now since September and it was definitely not all sunshine and roses. We were both headstrong at times and we both liked things a certain way, but the love that we felt for each other overshadowed the rest of it and I haven’t regretted my decision to say yes to his proposal once.
     
    Today he would be putting his mother’s ring on my hand. I had kept the one he bought me and asked him to wait and slip the “real” one on my finger on our wedding day. It seemed to have more