Six months later, Nathan proposed at dinner with all eight children listening from the hallway.
“Will you marry us?” he asked.
I said yes through tears.
My mother thought I was making a terrible mistake, but I didn’t listen. Those children already felt like mine.
Two weeks before the wedding, I tried on my dress while Amanda zipped it and Sophie clapped. Nathan appeared in the doorway and said softly, “You look beautiful.”
When I told him he wasn’t supposed to see the dress, he answered, “I know. I just wanted to remember.”
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