White Lies and Sweet Compromise( 𝐁𝐖𝐖𝐌💕)

Chapter 37

Georgia and Adam turn to the cheering congregation as the minister announce proudly I know pronounce to you Mr and Mrs Adam Keane.

There was something about today that opened Wendy's eyes to a numbing truth she had denied for years. All those times when she had fought with her mother and rebelled she was just preventing herself from facing the harsh truth that she was making the wrong choice.

She was being the whimsical young woman who thought she was on the verge of making her life her own and love was there ready to make it all fall in place.

Silly she had not placed her ego aside and trusted in her mother's insight and wisdom then she would not have suffered such pain and saw then that Brandon and her never had love.

She stared at her cousin as she walked down the aisle tucked against Adam's side his arm secured around her waist, his face beaming with love, pride and contentment.

Brandon and her never came close to having loved like what she was witnessing here right now.

She was truly happy for them, because of their love she was allowed to know what it truly meant to love a man with all your being. Her eyes travelled to Deacon who she had kept watching throughout various parts of the ceremony.

When Adam and Georgia had exchanged their personally written vows...

Her mind had flooded with the things she would have written to share with Deacon as a testament of her unyielding love. The common place vows she had share with the Brandon then would never do.

The placement of the rings...

In her minds eye she had seen herself slipping Deacon's band on his finger showing to the world how real it all was, he had afterwards place hers on her finger making it known to whom she belonged. Brandon's simple gold band held little sentiment to that of the makeshift right that graced her finger.

When her cousin and Adam kissed as man and wife for the first time...

Her eyes found Deacon's lips and hers had tingled with longing. Her heart raced with a desire to have them share such a kiss. The kiss that lay claim to who they now where. Her hand had tightened on her bouquet as the need to touch her trembling lips overcame her as images flood her mind. Brandon's kiss was a distant memory.

Now here she stood watching Georgia and Adam walk away into a life that she found herself truly wanting with Deacon, no farce, no lies, no compromise.

Her heart beat with the brokenness of a lost soul that had her tense with pain as she felt her throat burn with unshed tears.

Why was this happening to her?

She had never felt like this with Brandon the first man she thought she had ever loved. As she stood there directly looking into eyes of grey that seemed to pull from the very depths of her all the love she never gave to Brandon, and that love was now here fighting to be loose so that it can be unleashed.

The realizations that she was back then unwilling  to face in the years pass were had her feet going weak under the weight of staggering truths that swirled within her mind.

She could no longer shut them away or run away from them, being here at her cousin's wedding watching the genuine representation of a love undefiled by lies, pretencious affections and  brutal selfishness allowed her to cone to terms  with the truths she had been keen on denying.

It took this splendid occasion for her to come to terms with the fact that she was very much in love with Deacon and the grudge she held against Brandon had been what had held her back from accepting it.