Celeste.We were married simply and without excess.Words that meant what they said. Promises made by two people who understood now, really understood, with the full knowledge of what it cost to lose something and what it took to rebuild it — what they were promising. No performance, and no politics.Just Adrien's hands around mine and his eyes on my face and the particular certainty of a man who had finally arrived exactly where he was supposed to be.When it was done he leaned his forehead against mine the way he had on the balcony the night before the frontline, and for a moment neither of us spoke, and the hall around us was full of the sound of people who were genuinely, completely happy."Hi," he said quietly."Hi," I said back."We did it.""We really did. He kissed me,soft and certain and entirely unhurried and the room responded with the particular warmth of people who had been rooting for something for a long time and were finally watching it arrive.Elona, from Michael'
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