Chapter 68

They were married before graduation. Nathan watched his glowing bride in her white dress as she made her way toward him, still a virgin on their wedding day.

His father stood beside him, looking happy. “You did good, son.” They were in the town hall where they’d booked their wedding reception. Mary Fields was now Mary Briggs. She was his wife, the love of his life. Their parents had agreed to let them marry before the end of school but on the condition they didn’t live with each other until after graduation.

Nathan was living with her. They just didn’t know it, apart from his own parents. He spent every night with her in his arms. When her parents checked on her, he went to the floor so no one would see him.

“Thanks, Dad.”

Seth shook his hand. “How are you holding up? Do you still want to run away?”

“There’s no chance of that happening. The only woman I want in my life is coming toward me.”

Their honeymoon was going to be spent at his father’s lodge in the center of the forest where n