Every Beat Of My Heart: The Sullivans (Wedding Novella) Read Online Free PDF

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    Zach and Ryan were nose to nose when Sophie stepped into the garage. Heather and Vicki were two very strong women—they had to be to live with and love über-alpha men like Sophie’s brothers. But clearly, even the two of them were wary about getting between the brothers at present.
    Deciding to let her brothers keep up their chest beating for the time being, Sophie headed for the women who were already sisters to her, even if no official vows had been made yet.
    “What do you want to do?” She figured there was no point in being anything but direct at this point. “Does a double wedding sound like something that could work? Or do you each want your own separate wedding?” Before either of them could answer, she added, “And don’t think we won’t understand if separate weddings are your choice. You know how we can get carried away with an idea, especially when we’re all together like this.”
    “Actually,” Heather spoke first, “the more I think about it, the more I like the idea of a double wedding. Especially with you, Vicki. Right from the first time we met, I liked you. And over the past few years, you’ve become one of my closest friends.”
    “I feel the exact same way.” Vicki grinned. “Let’s do it. Let’s pull a Sullivan first with a double wedding.”
    “Boys,” Sophie called out. “It’s all decided.” She smiled as Zach and Ryan turned to face the women. “You’re having a double wedding. And it’s going to be awesome.”
    Zach was at Heather’s side so fast it was as if he’d become one of his race cars. “Heather, we don’t have to do this just because—”
    “I want to.” Heather put her hands on either side of Zach’s face, and Sophie’s heart melted at how much love she saw in her brother’s eyes when he looked at his fiancée.
    Heather had utterly transformed Zach in all the best possible ways. So had the dogs, who must have realized that Zach and Heather had left the backyard and were now barreling in through the garage door to find them.
    “All this time that we’ve been waiting to pick the date, maybe this was why,” Heather said. “Because we were supposed to do this with family—” She smiled at Ryan. “—and friends.” She turned her smile to Vicki.
    Zach didn’t speak for a long moment, just searched Heather’s eyes as though he wanted to make absolutely sure that she wasn’t just trying to make his family happy with a double wedding. Only once the dogs had wiggled between them did he finally crack a smile. “If it’s what you want.”
    “Don’t you?” She turned to where Ryan and Vicki were standing, holding hands. “I know you’re close to your whole family. But the two of you—”
    “You’ve always been closest to each other,” Vicki cut in. She turned to Ryan. “I can see it already, how if you multiply what we feel for each other with what Heather and Zach feel—” Her smile was radiant. “—it’s going to be like all the love in the world is right there in Marcus’s vineyard on the fifteenth.”
    Sophie could see that Ryan didn’t need any more convincing. Not when Vicki’s smile told him everything he needed to know. “If you’re in, so am I.” He kissed her before turning back to Zach. “You good with this?”
    Zach looked at Heather one more time, looking for her smile, before he turned back to Ryan and nodded. “I’m good.”
    Sophie breathed a silent sigh of relief as her brothers shook hands. Then she looped one arm through Heather’s and one through Vicki’s. “Now, if you’ll excuse us, we have some double-wedding planning to do.”

CHAPTER FOUR
    The following day, more than half a dozen Sullivan women gathered together in Chase and Chloe’s living room. Those who couldn’t be there in person dialed in via Skype. The coffee table was laden with cheese, crackers, grapes, and Megan’s very organized lists of what needed to be done—and who was going to do it.
    Heather had been running Top