TERMS OF THE HEART
A real smile, the kind I hadn't seen since before the stroke.
The garden was intimate — Eleanor Cole's Hudson Valley estate, white flowers, nothing like the spectacle I'd braced for. Damien stood at the end of the aisle, watching me the entire walk with an expression I'd never seen on him, undefended, nothing to do with trust clauses or board members watching.
"You look terrified," he murmured when I reached him.
"I am. Not about this part. The part where I stopped being sure I was only doing this for the money."
Something shifted in his face, and this time it didn't retreat. "I wrote my own vows," he said, which wasn't part of any plan Sofia had circulated. "I'm asking you to let me say the