Reckless With Their Hearts (30 page)

Everyone was murmuring at how beautiful she looked. She offered family members smiles as she passed. When she passed Axton Cage he bobbed his brows up and down
suggestively and gave her a wink. She gave him grin and turned her head to finally take in her groom.

Jared looked amazing in his tux. But the expression on his face, in those eyes that she loved so much took her breath away. There were tears glazing his eyes, and a big happy grin on his handsome face. He mouthed the words ‘I love you’ and she felt her own eyes tear up.

Closer and closer they walked. Her fingers were trembling and she was scared to death. But when she was ten feet from Jared she stopped. Her father frowned down at her. “Okay?” He murmured low enough so that only she could hear.

She gave him a beaming smile and nodded. “Thank you for walking me down the aisle, Daddy. But…I need to take this step alone.”

His eyes grew huge. “Lex..?” A tear leaked from his eye but he nodded and stepped away.

Swallowing hard Alexis looked back at Jared. Something like fear darkened those eyes of his and she realized that he thought she was having second thoughts. Taking a deep breath she let go of her crutch…

She took one slow step, alone with no help from a crutch or a spotter or any other outside help. Jared’s eyes widened in shocked delight and the entire church seemed to gasp as one. Chin trembling she took another step. Another. She was shaky at first, but by the time she reaching him she was confident she wasn’t going to fall.

He took
the last step forward that separated them and swung her into his arms. His face buried in her neck and she felt his tears on her skin. “I love you, Lexis.”