Chapter 10 - THE NEW DAWN
A year later,
the rain was still falling on New York.
But this time,
it was a warm summer rain.
I stood in the garden of our new home in the Hamptons.
It wasn't a fortress.
It was just a house.
With a swing set and a sandbox.
Mave was standing by the roses,
wearing a simple white dress.
Posie was running through the grass,
chasing a golden retriever puppy.
I walked over to Mave and pulled her close.
"You look beautiful,"
I said.
"I feel happy,"
she replied.
She looked at the little girl,
who was now laughing and rolling in the dirt.
"She has your eyes,
Garrett."
"She has your heart,"
I said.
We were married that afternoon,
under the old oak tree.
There were no five hundred guests.
There were no multimillion-dollar alliances.
There was just us.
And Wesley,
who was walking with a slight limp,
but smiling wider than I had ever seen.
As I said my vows,
I looked at Posie,
who was the flower girl.
She was holding a basket of petals and looking at me with those icy gray eyes.
But they weren't cold anymore.
They were full of light.
I realized then that I had lost an empire,
but I had found a world.
I had walked away from my own wedding to find my own life.
And as the sun began to peek through the clouds,
I knew that I was finally home.
The story of the Hail family was changing.
It wasn't about power or blood anymore.
It was about the gray eyed promise.
May you like
A promise that I would never let go.
The end.
