Enjoy! Remember, this isn't the full chapter, she only had part of it as she never got it finished.
“As if we’re married and I
still don’t have your parent’s approval.” Matt chuckled as he leaned that
little bit closer into me.
“No offense but I really don’t
think you ever will.” Juliet teased while leaning on her tiptoes so she could
press her lips to his nose. “But that’s not your fault.”
“Really?” Matt cocked his
eyebrows up, awaiting on a winning explanation to ease his mind of this one.
Even though Matt had asked
Juliet’s dad for her hand in marriage, it hadn’t exactly gone down as he
expected. Dale’s instant answer had been a polite ‘it isn’t the right time’
before Matt’s persistence lead to him to bite back with a solid ‘no’.
He had warned Matt off the
idea, knowing that he would likely go against his words anyway and that was
exactly what had happened. Juliet’s parents had been given very little choice other
than to accept their wishes and show up on the wedding day with forced smiles
on their faces. That’s exactly what had happened today.
“Nope. They’re just too blind
to see the softie you really are.” Juliet reached out and poked Matt’s chest,
causing him to wrap his arms around her waist in response.
“I’m not soft.”
“Yes you are!”
Urging Juliet closer into his
body, Matt pressed his lips to her forehead before pulling away once again and
shaking his head.
“I’m tough, like really tough.”
“Oh yeah, of course!” Juliet
laughed while watching her newly husband as he began flexing his muscles in a
suit that tightly wrapped around his arms.
“Tough, strong, terrifying…”
Matt continued to trail off before Juliet cut him short.
“Adorable…”
“When will you ever learn? I’m
still that big scary gang member you met for the first time.”
“The big scary gang member who
was really a softie who wanted everyone to think he was a big scary gang
member?” Juliet questioned causing a frown to fall over Matt’s face. “He
definitely turned my life upside down.”
“For the good, I hope.”
When Juliet and Matt first
met, things hadn’t started off as one would expect a beautiful relationship to
blossom. Instead, it began with a bet to try and get Matt to take love more
seriously and for Juliet to open herself up to a whole new part of life.
Sophie had been fully involved
in bringing the pair together yet none of them had been aware of how far things
would go. No one had expected this unlikely couple to find some common ground
and realise that even though they lived two completely different lives, they
could bring each other so much happiness.
“It was definitely for the
good. It’s just been crazy ever since we met, you know? I never imagined I’d be
married with a baby at 21.”
“I never thought I’d be here
and alive at 24, little lone married.” Matt laughed yet Juliet didn’t share his
humour for something she saw as terrifying.
Matt’s life was full of risks.
It always had been. That’s what came with being in a gang. However, until he
met Juliet, he felt like there wasn’t a whole lot to live for and if the time
come that he was to lose his life to a mess up in a job or a gunshot he wasn’t
able to dodge, he’d accepted that.
He’d go out on business each
day and never expect to come home. He’d take insane risks while on a job
because he’d live for the thrill in that moment and didn’t care about the consequences.
But as soon as that timid
blonde strolled into his life, everything seemed to change. He suddenly had
something to live for and suddenly had some excitement and something to look
forward to.
He no longer felt like he was
living his days for nothing and instead had a girl who showed him what it felt
like to feel something… to love something.
“I love you, Matt Russle.”
Juliet muttered, as he squeezed her body so close to Matt’s, as if she was
afraid to let him go, like she would lose him.
“I love you too, Juliet Russle…
more than you’ll ever know.”
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