of a pair of light green peridot earrings that matched her eyes. “You look like a princess.”
“I feel like one.”
She kissed her cheek. “I’ll see you in a few minutes.” Alexa left the room and hurried down the aisle to the front of the church. Her grandfather and Phyllis smiled when they saw her coming. Nico’s family sat on the other side. Irena had joined them.
Alexa sat on the other side of her grandfather and reached for his hand. “You won’t believe how beautiful Dimitra looks in her wedding dress.”
“You look like a bride yourself,” he whispered.
She gave him a kiss and looked around. The church was filling fast. “Are you really going to be all right while we’re both off on our honeymoons?”
“Sweetheart, a week is nothing. I’ll be able to keep working on my book, and I have Phyllis. I’m so happy for you and your baby girl, it’s put a permanent smile on my face.”
“I could never have made it through this life without you and Grandma Iris. I’m so sorry she isn’t here.”
“But she is.”
She nodded. “I’m sure you’re right.”
Suddenly the organ music started and the priest walked in from a side door resplendent in his robes. Kristos and Yanni followed him, dressed in black tuxedos with gardenias in their lapels. Irena had to be in tears.
Everyone got to their feet as the “Wedding March” played. Alexa turned her head. A quiet gasp escaped her lips at the sight that met her eyes. She’d never forget her beaming daughter who came walking down the aisle with her father. Nico had to be the most magnificent, handsome man in existence.
He wore a black tuxedo, Kristos’s choice, with a gardenia in his lapel. All eyes were on the two of them. They looked perfect together. There were no words to describe the feelings bursting inside her. When the two of them reached the front, Nico left his daughter in Kristos’s care and walked toward Alexa.
Their eyes fused for a heart-stopping moment. He clasped her hand and never let it go during the nearly hour-long ceremony. The Dance of Isaiah where the husband and wife circled the table three times was particularly moving to Alexa. It was full of symbolism and tradition. By the time the priest gave the final blessing, she was fighting tears.
The married couple turned to the congregation. Dimitra looked at Alexa and Nico across the expanse. Her eyes glowed with happiness and joy. It was all there. Then Kristos looked over at them with the same expression. There were few moments in life more thrilling than this one.
Nico was so moved, he put his arm around Alexa and pulled her closer to him. She looked up at him. “I married you all over again during their ceremony.”
He gave her that devastating smile. “I did the same thing. But if you want to know the truth, I felt we were married that night on my cruiser.
“I’m also thinking about the baby we’re going to have, no matter how long it takes for us to get pregnant.”
“You don’t have to wonder any longer.”
“Alexa—” His dark eyes blazed.
She flashed him an illuminating smile. “I did a home test today. We’re going to have another baby. We can forget the four months.”
“I hoped you didn’t mean it, but I didn’t want to argue with you at the time. I wanted to marry you so badly, I’m afraid I would have promised you anything. We’re really pregnant?”
“Yes, darling, but we’ll have to continue this conversation later. Everyone is leaving and we’ve a reception to attend. Dimitra and Kristos will wonder where we are. She let me know you and I seem to function in a world all our own all the time.”
Forgetting everyone else, he bent his head and kissed her. “She got that right. Once our worlds collided, that was it.”
“I’m so thankful you asked me to marry you while we were on the yacht. Now another baby is on the way. As it turns out, Hera didn’t win. In the end Io, with all her journeys, was changed back to human form by Zeus and would bear his child, whose descendant would be a great hero.
“That’s our story, darling.”
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