Deeks turned to look at his shiny bike with a shit-eating grin I hadn’t seen there in a while. “Think you could manage sidesaddle?”
“On your bike?”
When I raised an eyebrow at him, he shrugged. “We all have our traditions, Ayda, and you’re about to experience one of the rare ones.”
I waited as he swung his leg over the bike and pulled it upright, offering his hand to me and grinning when I accepted it with a playful roll of my eyes. With my bouquet in hand, I gathered up the train of my dress and raised it up as carefully as I could once I was sitting behind him. It wasn’t as dignified as I’d have liked, but it felt right. Drew had warned me the guys had some things of their own planned, and I guessed this was one of them.
Deeks took off slowly, barely fast enough to make a breeze as he rolled toward the gates and into the yard.
The whole place was as transformed as the gates had been,with logs, flowers, mason jars, and candles filling the spaces surrounding us. Fairy lights and lanterns were strung all the way around the yard and crisscrossed overhead, leading toward where we’d agreed on placing our altar of metal and willow branches. This was where I knew my bridesmaids had just arrived and stepped into place and where Tate waited so he and Deeks could give me away together.
What I hadn’t expected was the club guys there, sitting on their bikes, each man lined up on either side of the aisle, parked diagonally and facing Drew with their bright lights on. My jaw dropped as I studied each of them looking at me the way Deeks had just done, their smiles authentic and filled with love.
I almost dropped my dress as my emotions threatened to overwhelm me.
The club was as much of the family as every one of the guys, and this was a way of acknowledging that. This act was their way of respecting this day, and this marriage, and the tears welled in my eyes only long enough for me to blink them away again. I couldn’t have anything hindering my view when Deeks got to the end of that Harley-lined aisle, and it was worth it all.
The moment Deeks turned that corner, I could only see what waited at the other end of it.
The man I’d been waiting to see all day.
Drew.
He looked amazing in his version of a tuxedo. His wide shoulders filled out the shirt that was rolled up to his elbows. A bow tie that was a bit wonky but totally him, sat around his neck, and a sexy as sin tailored vest hugged those abs of his.
He was all could see from that point on.
I took the hand that was offered to me and rose from the bike to my full height before letting the train of the dress go. I was barely aware of the girls slowly heading down the aisle before me. All of those little details that seemed so importantto me in the planning suddenly fell away when Drew glanced around and saw me for the very first time.
Yes, I thought to myself as his eyes widened with hunger and awe.I’m yours.