Irreparable (Wounded Souls) (24 page)

One year later

It’s been three years since that day that changed my life, and I wish my four fallen brothers were here to experience this with me.
 
Here I am, standing at the altar with the preacher, wearing my dress blues, waiting for Sam to walk down the aisle to me.
I can’t wait to see her in her dress.  Everyone keeps asking me if I am thinking of running, but honestly this is where I want to be. 
Luke, Mason, and Blake are standing by my side, and it’s
great to see Jackson’s wife and family sitting in the pews.  The
Wedding March
starts and in walks Anna in a fitted silk lilac colored dress that is strapless and falls down to her feet. Next is Skylar, and then Janice who was Sam’s friend at the University of Alabama.

The doors close and I take a breath. They open and in walks Isabella wearing a beautiful little white and lilac junior bridesmaid’s dress and is accompanied by her cousin Matthew who looks so much like his father it’s uncanny. I smile watching these two walking down the aisle, Matthew holding his ring bearer pillow in his black tux and purple tie, and Isabella throwing the purple rose petals down for Sam to walk down.

The door opens again and the song
Marry Me
by Train
starts as Sam and her father walk down the aisle.  Sam is wearing a white wedding dress that is strapless and shows off her tattoos down her arm and is fitted
to her thighs and then starts to flair out. She looks amazing. All of the months of ribbing from the guys about this dress were worth it for me to see her like this.
 
Her hair is swept to the side and is sticking out of a bun
with a small veil tucked over her face.  I think she called it a birdcage, why I have no clue ‘cause looking at it now it doesn’t look anything like a birdcage.  A
ll I can think of is that I can’t wait to have her as mine forever. I made her mine two years ago, but today she will have my name and she will be Mrs. Jameson Carter.

“Hi,” Sam whispers as I take her hand and I smirk.

“Hey,” I whisper and she bites her lip. I groan because I pray that I don’t have a boner by the time this is over with.

The preacher asks who gives this woman to be wed and Mr. Tim speaks up
.  My mother is looking her
usual debonair self in the front row sobbing her eyes out.
Roger is patting her arm and comforting her.  I smile and thank God that he gave someone like Roger to my mother.   It comes time to say our vows and I look at Sam.  Here is my moment of truth, the time to tell everyone what I vow.
I take a deep breath, let it out slowly, and turn to look at Sam.

“Samantha Lynn Blalock, from this day forward, I vow to honor, and cherish you. I vow to do everything in my power to show you that love fixes everything. That life is worth living. That love is worth risking. I took a risk on you,
two and a half years ago and I have not regretted it.  I was once a broken man, and you fixed me, you held my hand, you walked with me every step of the way.
You even walked for me, when I had no choice but to let you. I plan to do the same for you until my dying breath..” I let out a shaky breath and smile when I see the tears running down her face.

“Well, how do I top that?” Sam lets out in a huff blowing her bangs up off her forehead and everyone lets out a chuckle.

“Jameson Nathan Carter, from this day forward, I vow to honor and cherish you.  I vow to strive to show you that you’re worth everything in this world.  I will
always cherish every inch of you, even the inches you think you’ve lost. I will show you that there is nothing more important than the heart that beats inside of you and the love it offers me. I vow to walk every step with you until the day I die. I will stand by you just like I did when you weren’t able to stand.” She smiles and wipes the tears out of her eyes, and then we give our rings and finally I hear the words I have waited to hear.

“I now pronounce you husband and wife. You may kiss your bride.” I grab Sam and bend her back and kiss her like my life depends on it. The catcalls in the church make me laugh and Sam blushes red all over. I have finally gotten the one thing that means everything to me. If there is one thing I have learned, it’s that in reality, nothing is ever really irreparable.

Amanda Lanclos lives in a small town right outside of Baton Rouge.  She is a full time mother to a beautiful baby girl as well as two bad little
furbabies
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