“Hayes. Do you take Laiken Rose Blanchard to be your wife? To have and to hold, in sickness and in health, for richer or poorer, keeping yourself unto her for as long as you both shall live?” Hayes’s brows furrow as he cranes his neck to see into the book Pastor Todd is holding. “You got anything longer than that in there?” God, I love this man. The pastor smiles as he snickers. “Afraid not.” “Fine then.” Hayes looks me in the eyes. “I do, even after we both shall live.” “And Laiken, do you take Hayes Beckett Wilder to be your husband? To have and to hold, in sickness and in health, for

