Chapter 37 : The Meeting

*Genevieve*

Rowan went to the door while I smoothed my hair back into place. While Budge and Tony both knew that Rowan and I were together, they definitely didn't need all the gory details.

I'd come down here early because I had listened to as much of the wedding planning as I could stand. I hadn't expected to fall in love here. I realized I didn't know if I was expecting to fall in love ever. I never had the luxury of imagining a lavish wedding, or even spending much time at all thinking about what my dream wedding would look like.

Before Rowan, I had never imagined a wedding at all.

I thought I was a simple kind of girl. I thought I was the kind of woman who would be happy getting married at the courthouse and moving on with my life if I ever got married at all. Marriage seemed so pointless when someone could always just walk out.

My mother had left my father as soon as she'd been able to. They never actually got a divorce, she just managed to drop off the face of the plane