I frowned as I placed my hand on the side of her face. “That would suck considering I got you a pretty kick-ass wedding present.”

Adaline’s eyes lit up. “You did? What did you get me?”

With a shrug of my shoulders, I said, “You’ll have to zip line and then of course marry me tomorrow, and then find out.”

Pinching her brows together, Adaline asked, “Is it a big surprise or a little surprise?”

Lifting my arms up, I widened my hands and said, “It’s huge.”

Adaline took in a deep breath as she took a few steps closer to the edge of the platform. “O-okay. It better be worth this!”

My heart dropped as I watched her get ready to do this. I loved that she was stepping out of her comfort zone just for me. My stomach felt like I had already taken off on the zip line.

After getting her all ready to go, I turned the GoPro camera on that was attached to her helmet and said, “See you on the other side, baby.”

And just like that, Adaline was off zipping across the gorge. Screaming bloody murder the entire way.

“She woke the entire forest,” The guy working the zip line said as I got into position. “So I have to ask you, what’s the surprise you got for her?”

Looking straight ahead, I said, “I don’t have one. I totally forgot to get her a wedding present.”

With a small chuckle, he said, “Dude, you are so fucked.”

“Tell me about it!” Laughing, I yelled out, “Let her rip!”

The feel of the wind wiping against my face was amazing. The view was unlike anything I’d ever seen before.

Fan-fucking-tastic.

As I came to the end, I could see Adaline. They must have just helped her out of the harness. She looked beautiful . . . ghost face and all.

“How was it, sir?” the guy helping me out of the contraption asked.

“Fucking amazing!” I yelled as he started laughing.

“Glad you enjoyed it.”

As I walked up to Adaline, she held her hand up and shook her head. She looked so damn cute with that angry look on her face. “Don’t you even come near me, Emmit Lewis! I’m not talking to you!” I pulled out my phone and took another picture of her. That was for sure going to be posted on Instagram.

I threw my head back as I laughed and pulled her into my arms. With a quick kiss on her lips, I gave her a wink. Her smile was about to break when I said, “If you can tell me that wasn’t the most amazing thing you’ve ever done I’ll totally post a video of me saying I’m a total asshole for making my future wife zip line.”

Adaline narrowed her left eye at me as she lifted her brow. “Really? You’d do that?”

“Of course I would.”

The moment her teeth sunk in to her lip, my body came alive. Adaline noticed my reaction as she flashed me a sexy as hell smile. “I may have enjoyed it a tiny bit.”

Holding my smile back, I asked, “Just a tiny bit?”

Lifting her hand, Adaline measured with her fingers just a little she enjoyed herself. Within seconds her fingers moved apart a little more. Then a little bit more.

“Fine. It was amazing. After I screamed my right lung out, I kind of enjoyed it.”

“Want to do it again?”

Pushing me away with her hands on my chest, Adaline laughed and shouted. “No! I just want to go back to Laluna and get my nails done and do stuff like that with the other girls.”

I jetted my lower lip out and pouted as I said, “Kill joy.”

Adaline laughed as I draped my arm around her neck and guided her out and to the parking lot where our family was waiting.

“How did you like it, Adaline?” MaryAnne asked. How my brother was able to keep a woman like her was beyond me.

“It was okay. I don’t think I’ll be rushing to zip line anytime soon.”

Everyone laughed as Waldo walked up to his daughter. “You’ll get in a racecar at over a hundred miles per hour with this one,” Pointing to me with his finger as he smirked and shook his head, Waldo kept talking. “But you don’t like to zip line. Go figure.”

Adaline winked at her father as she turned to her mother and mine. “I’m ready for some girl time! Tomorrow is my wedding and I need pretty fingers and toes.”

Before I knew what was happening, the girls were going to the spa, and the guys were headed to the golf course. Watching Adaline walk off as she laughed at something my sister said to her caused my heart to soar. I’d do anything to make her happy.

Anything.

Somewhere between the ninth and tenth hole, I got tired of feeling my phone vibrating in my pocket. Pulling it out, I saw I had ten text messages from Todd. Pulling my phone out, I only had to read the first one to have my heart drop to my stomach.

Todd: Call me ASAP. It’s about tomorrow.

Fuck. What could have happened now?

“Waldo, Chris, I have to make a call to Todd.”

“Hell no, Emmit. It’s golf time, no work is allowed,” Chris said as he dropped his bag and got ready to swing his club.

I pushed out a frustrated breath and said, “It’s about tomorrow.”

Waldo and my brother both looked at me. I had told them both about the stunt Stephanie had pulled. Waldo didn’t agree with me when I said I thought it was best if Adaline didn’t find out.

As I hit Todd’s number, I took in a deep cleansing breath.

“Hello, Emmit?”

“Yeah, Todd it’s me.”

“I need you to come back to the resort as fast as you can.”

Closing my eyes, I shook my head. “Why?”

I could hear Todd letting a breath. Whatever it was, it had to have been big for him to not want to tell me.

“The wedding trellis on the beach was destroyed last night. I just got the message from the wedding planner. They said it could have been the storm last night caused bigger waves that came up further than they thought.”

I quickly let out the breath I had been holding in. “That’s it?”

Todd let out a nervous laugh. “What do you mean, that’s it? Emmit, that was a huge part of your wedding tomorrow evening.”

My hand pushed through my hair as I let out a relieved laugh. “Todd, I’d marry Adaline in an elevator. It’s fine. I’m positive Adaline isn’t going to be that worried if a storm took out the trellis. As long as there are no storms tomorrow afternoon, we are golden.”

“Are you sure Adaline is going to feel the same way? With the flowers and all that fabric she had made to put on it?”

I squeezed my eyes shut. “Shit. I guess it would mean more to her. Damn it. Can we not get another one in by the wedding tomorrow?”

“I’m working on it, but that one was custom-built and hand carved out of solid wood.”

“I didn’t think the storm was that bad last night. Are they sure it was the storm?”

“They are pretty sure. It was knocked down and a part of it was gone, so it had to have been washed back out to sea.”

“Damn it,” I said as I dropped my head down and tried to think of something else. “What about that trellis that leads into the yoga studio? Could we not move that down to the beach and use that?”

The phone muffled, and I was guessing Todd was asking. “I think that might work. Good thinking, Emmit.”

I glanced back over to the hole where Waldo and my brother had both tee’d off and started down the fairway. My brother suggested having Stephanie watched and last time Chris called in to check, all was good, so I knew this was nothing to be alarmed with. “Good. I’m glad we got that taken care of. I’ll let Adaline know what happened, so she isn’t thrown off by the change.”

“Perfect. Sorry to interrupt your day.”

Grabbing my bag, I quickly made my way over toward Waldo and Chris. “No worries. I’m just glad it wasn’t something far worse. Let’s say some prayers this is our last problem.”

Todd laughed and said, “Will do. Enjoy your day.”

Pushing my phone back into my pocket, I tried to push away the uneasy feeling I had wash over my body.