White Lies and Sweet Compromise( 𝐁𝐖𝐖𝐌💕)

Chapter 59

𝑬𝒑𝒊𝒍𝒐𝒈𝒖𝒆ఌ︎❥︎

Two months have passed since Deacon and Wendy were wed before the small gathering of family and friends in the impromptu ceremony orchestrated by Deacon Ffrench Sr. It was one of the many blessed occasions they were befitted with.

Wendy who was busy pacing the length of her desk only to pause and stare at the phone then start to pace again nibbled on her bottom lip and sighed. She continued her pacing until she found herself standing at Deacon's empty desk.

The desk where he had a few months ago ignited the flames that she had kept dormant behind her past hurt and her being adamant Mr Arrogant himself was not worth so much a daydream or a slight inkling of her attraction.

She touched the slick surface of the neatly kept desk before her fingers traced its contents as her mind drifted to the day Deacon had driven her to sexual frustration and limited self-control as he threw her composure out the door with his heady kisses and mind-boggling caresses on the shiny surfaces.

It had started with her white lie and Deacon using it to offer a compromise to them now being married, in love and very much happy. There was so much she was grateful for. Her life had chartered a course of happiness that just kept spreading to her family and friends. It's like loving Deacon has lifted a curse and she is now living her fairy tale and basking in her happily ever after.

She paused at the framed photo of Deacon and his father taken the day of their wedding and she smiled as they seemed so refreshed and restored. Life was not the wretched instigator after all but a faithful composer of joy and happiness. She looks at the other photo of the two of them held in a warm embrace as husband a wife and her heart swells with love further as tears of gratitude prick her eyes.

'This is just the beginning' he had told her as they had shared their first moment as man and wife 'of me loving you more and more each day Wendy.'

She knew exactly how he felt as she was very much wrapped up in what he was feeling. To know that Deacon and his father could in the final moments of his life find their way to building the bridge that circumstances and insecurities had torn down increase her faith in life to see her through and offer her peace. It's hard nonetheless to know he was no longer here but he did give them a legacy that she vowed to build on with her husband.

She would forever value her friends and family. They were the wind beneath her wings.

Leela and Leo were now a happy family with an ecstatic Bear who would very much want to have her aunt home with them but understood that Ky's life was with Destiny in Africa was now focussing on making her parents turn her into a big sister and Leo who loved making his daughter's wishes and dreams come through was making every effort to ensure she got it. Leela loved it and was beyond happy and this increased her happiness.

They were much more in this circle of happiness. To her surprise, she and Deacon were invited to be the Godparents to little Isaiah who was not here as yet but his delightful parents were planning a beautiful christening ceremony that Elizabeth would hold at her private villa in Nane.

Love was soaring about them in ways she had often deemed as extraordinary. All the tragedies, heartaches and brokenness were distant memories as happy endings were giving way to new beginnings.

She wondered to the leather chair that she missed seeing Deacon sitting in and watching her when he thought she wasn't looking. It had only been three days since he left for Canada and it seemed like forever but in a few hours he would be back home and she hoped to share with him another bit of information that would cement further happiness.

Her mind drifted to her mother and aunt who were somewhere in the Caribbean on an around-the-world curse to celebrate Cynthia's total recovery from cancer. Precilla had decided this would be the best way to celebrate such a marvellous revelation. They had chatted the night before and she was so excited to listen to all the things that they were experiencing and Precilla had dropped the news that Adam and Gorgi were expecting.