I come downstairs, waiting for Mom and Forest to arrive for lunch. Yes, Forrest and my mother are dating now. She claims he is a very surprising man. They meet us here every Sunday for family day. She sold the club to Joe, so she is living here now and I couldn’t be happier. I walk into the living room looking for Zander and my identical twins. I see him on the floor playing with them and Gavin. My girls are now sitting and Gavin is running all over the living room. The sun is hitting my girls’ red hair perfectly. Then they look up with their big blue eyes and their bright smiles showing off the two teeth they each have and I melt into a puddle right there on the floor. I never knew my life could be like this. It’s so full and happy.

The doorbell rings, announcing Mom and Forrest are here. We all start settling into the dining room. With the table full and the high chairs around, it looks like something out of a book. Zander feeds one of our girls while Catherine starts to feed the other. Fallon was right about Catherine, she loves my girls so much. I then look as Gavin who tries to feed himself like a big boy but has more food on his shirt than in his mouth.

I decide to announce that Zander and I have decided to have a proper wedding and everyone is overjoyed. By the time lunch is through, we have the date planned and the wedding planner on retainer. I can’t believe how happy I am to get married or how I’m so in love with my husband.

* * *

We have been planning this day for six months. Today I get to marry the woman of my dreams. And this time she wants to marry me too. My girls are getting so big now, they even started to walk. They are so spoiled for me and I wouldn’t have any other way. I can’t wait to see them in their dresses. Every time I look at them with their curly red hair and big blue eyes, my heart melts. I was so scared to have daughters, but now they are my life.

Kyle interrupts my thoughts when he enters my room. He whistles. “Damn, Zander, could you get any hotter? You wear a tux better than any other man I have ever seen.”

Kyle’s been here for about a month, designing and sewing Murphy and the girls’ dresses.

“Hey, man, I told you I’m taken.”

“Yeah, yeah, I know, but you can’t fault me for trying. I came to tell you it’s time.”

He leaves, and I look back into the mirror and take a deep breath. “Showtime.”

I make my way through the house to get to the back yard. Murphy wanted the place to look like a glamorous twenties party. Everyone is dressed like they are in a movie. We’re having a night wedding and the outside is covered in hanging lights and chandeliers. She told me it would be romantic and I guess it is. All I want is to see my wife walk down that aisle. Now that to me will be romantic. As I walk to my spot, I look around, seeing everyone dressed in sequins, looking shiny and glamorous. Murphy pulled it off, this is beyond spectacular. I have my brothers, including Teddy, all standing on the side of me. Teddy and I have talked and then we brought my brothers into it. After some time he came around and we are all working on becoming closer. I look out and see my mother and father seated in the front row with Cherry and Forrest.

The music starts and then I see Avery walk down the aisle first, followed by of all people Brittany. I look over at Gabriel seeing how pissed he looks but Murphy met her one night and they have become close, so if my wife wants her here and in our wedding then so be it. When I look back up the aisle I see Fallon walking towards us looking beautiful. Then last but not least, Kyle wearing his tux with a sequined out bowtie. He’s Murphy’s maid or man of honor.

The music changes and I see Gavin pulling my girls each by a hand down the aisle. I start to tear up as they yell and wave.

“Daddy!”

But when Murphy comes into view, I have to try to breathe, she is breathtaking. Kyle made her an insanely beautiful sexy champagne colored glittering dress. It’s skin-tight, showing off every curve, it has beads hanging down all over the dress, making it glisten like the lights on a chandelier and the top is off the shoulder and holds her heavy breasts tightly, spilling out her beautiful full cleavage.

I hear the whispers, all saying how beautiful she is. I look up and see she kept with the theme of the wedding by wearing her hair long but in what Avery calls finger waves. Whatever it is, she is incredible.

I look back down at my girls and then my wife again and whisper out to my brother on the side of me, “Hey, Gabriel.”

“Yeah?”

“You know how you laughed and said that this couldn’t happen to a better man?”

“Yeah.”

“You were right.”

I hear him chuckle, but I never lose eye contact with Murphy. When she gets close enough, I can’t wait, I walk the rest of the way and pull her to me, grabbing her tight and kissing her hard.

Everyone starts hollering and whistling. But I don’t care what kind of scene we’re making. She’s mine.

We make it to the podium and I twirl her around in front of everyone, I want to see it all. The audience laughs, but then I notice something and take the opportunity to whisper in her ear.

“Where’s the zipper?”

“There isn’t one, Kyle’s cockblocking you again.”

“I’ll find a way, baby, I promise you.”

By the time the priest announces us husband and wife I lean into her and whisper, “Now that you married me by your choice you will always be Red Stern.”

She looks at me and says, “My name is Murphy Stern not Red, Zander, how many times do I have to tell you?”

I pull her tight to me shocking her at first then tell her what I have known since the day I laid eyes on her.

“From the moment I laid eyes on you, until the day I die, you have and always will be my Red.”