“ELLIE!”

SHIT! Dammit! I was just five feet from my sweet tea! I turned around to see Shannon and James standing there. Oh I still felt so bad about everything that happened. Gunner actually missed their wedding because of the car accident. I felt my face burning up.

Shannon leaned in and whispered in my ear. “Don’t you even think about it Ellie! I know what you’re doing and you will not feel guilty do you hear me?!”

I smiled as she pulled away and gave me a kiss on the cheek.

“Have you met my sisters yet?” Shannon said as she put her arm in mine and led me away from my sweet tea. I looked around for Gunner. Where the hell was he?

Then I spotted him. He was playing horse shoes with a few of the younger kids. He looked up at me and we smiled at each other. I just wanted to leave…. . . start our lives together, that and I really wanted some fucking sweet tea! If I had to talk to another person and thank them for coming I think I was going to hurl.

Shannon introduced me to her two sisters, Lynda and Clare. We talked for a bit and then I slowly started to make my way back to the sweet tea. I saw it……oh thank god my mouth was so dry!

Just as I was about to reach for a mason jar and fill it up with nice cold sweet ice tea that only Emma can make…. . . I was stopped again by someone saying my name. Mother fucker…. . . now I was going to go off on someone.

“Ellie?”

“Mom?”

Wait…. what?

I turned around to see a woman standing in front of me. I instantly recognized her from the pictures in Gunner’s bedroom. Gunner was standing behind her and she slowly turned around to look at him. She ran into his arms as he picked her up and spun her around.

“DREW! Oh Drew! I’ve missed you so much. I’m so sorry baby boy, so sorry!”

OH. MY. GOD…. . . I looked around for Gunner’s father but didn’t see him. Bastard! I wonder if she had just gotten there. That made me feel sad if she had, she missed a beautiful ceremony.

“Mom……why didn’t you let me know you were coming? Did you just get here?”

“No Drew, I was here for the ceremony. It was beautiful. You look so handsome Drew and look at you such a man now; you’re not my little boy……. Oh my…. . . ” She started to cry as Gunner drew her back into his arms.

My heart was hurting. To think of all the time she missed out because of Gunner’s stubborn father.

“Mom please don’t cry. You don’t know how happy you made me by coming. Thank you so much. ”

“Drew, your father would not come I’m sorry. He did tell me to congratulate you though. ” She said with such sadness in her voice.

Gunner laughed. “Sure he did mom! I don’t want to talk about him. I want to introduce you to my wife. ”

I sucked in a breath of air. Oh god I loved hearing him say that!

“Mom, may I introduce to you my wife, Mrs. Ellie Mathews. Ellie sweetheart this is my mother Grace Mathews. ”

I reached my hand out to shake hers but she came up to me and hugged me. More like squeezed the shit out of me. She pulled back and looked me up and down.

“So beautiful! You’re such a beautiful girl!”

“Thank you Mrs. Mathews. ”

“No, please Ellie sweetheart, call me Grace. Thank you so much Ellie for making my Drew so happy. I can see by the way he looks at you how happy and in love he is with you. ” She said to me with a smile.

I smiled back at her. She really was a beautiful woman and I could see so much of her in Gunner now that I saw her in person.

“Thank you Grace. I feel the same way about him. He’s the most amazing man I’ve ever met. ”

Gunner walked around his mom and took me into his arms and leaned down and kissed me. Before he pulled all the way away from my lips he smiled.

“Do you want some sweet tea baby?”

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