A Trusting Heart (22 page)

“If I can forgive you all of your horrendous blunders, don’t you think you can forgive Blaine for one small mistake?”

Trevor’s black eyes snapped in anger and his hands tightened on the steering wheel.

“Small? No. That was an enormous mistake. Admit it. When you saw that pre-nup, the first thing you thought of doing was dumping me. Try and deny it.”

Megan looked out the window, knowing her guilt was very apparent.

“Well, that’s why I’m an adult. I think things through. I don’t make life-changing decisions on a moment’s anger. And neither should you. Besides, wasn’t it you who gave me a little speech about the Atonement and how we’re supposed to forgive everybody, everything? You wouldn’t want me to think you’re a hypocrite would you?”

Trevor groaned and shook his head.

“But I already got you a wedding present.”

Megan reached over and held Trevor’s hand between the seats. He was such a little kid.

“So give me two.”

Trevor didn’t want to tell her she was getting approximately three hundred. It would ruin the surprise.

“I hope you’re not going to be disappointed, but I spent practically every last cent I had on your wedding ring. I feel bad, but I don’t have a wedding present for you.”

Trevor raised Megan’s hand to his mouth and smiled.

“You already gave me the best wedding present there is: a trusting heart.”

And it was true.

Epilogue

SATURDAY MORNING, TREVOR LED Megan into the sealing room.

He helped her to kneel on her side of the altar and then walked around to kneel across from her.

Megan looked contentedly around the small room at the few precious people they had invited to be there with them. Cora was the only parent there to support them. Linette was waiting for them outside in the gardens. Blaine and Drew were the witnesses. Her parents were heartbreakingly absent.

After the ceremony, Brother Perry, their sealer, instructed them to kiss across the altar. Trevor leaned over and took her face in his hands, smiling down into her eyes with the sweetest expression she had ever seen. He loved her and he couldn’t be telling her more eloquently. He leaned down and pressed his mouth gently across hers in a pure and chaste expression of his commitment to her. She closed her eyes and accepted him. As Trevor pulled away, he kept his eyes locked on hers, letting her know that their covenant was sealed with love.

Her heart had been broken in so many different ways, by Dylan and Taffie and by her parents. But it had been broken in such a way that true love had been able to enter in. Trevor reached for her hand and raised her from her knees. As he led her out of the sealing room and into their new life together, she knew she would keep this moment in her heart forever. And because families are forever, she knew she could.

about
the
Author

IN THE FOURTH GRADE, Shannon Guymon wandered into the school library and, figuratively, never came out again. She decided one day to take her love affair with the written word one step further and wrote her first novel,
Never Letting Go of Hope
.

A Trusting Heart
is her second novel.

Shannon grew up all across the United States but has finally found her home in Alpine, Utah, where she lives with her four children and her husband, Matt. She enjoys gardening, being with her family, and, of course, writing.