Chapter 26: CORD

Each of them had an arm around their future bride and even Dev and Quinn were beaming at the girls' antics as they ragged on their men about one thing or another. Davey was looking better these days as well.

The interest my brothers and I showed him, and the way we'd drawn him into our circle had helped to give him more confidence. But he too had been shut away from his friends for the past couple weeks. Finding out that he was the old man's son had upped our protectiveness of the young man who was now more brother than friend, and he blossomed under our care.

My Susie was right in the middle of it, putting in her two cents in between giving me coy looks. She'll soon be planning her own wedding too, little did she know, just as soon as I finish designing her rings.

Ours was not going to be the most orthodox of unions by no stretch of the imagination, but the chain I'd hung around her last night was just the beginning, and to me, just as important as the ring I will some day put