Wanted (75 page)

“Ellie, breathe! Sweets you have to breathe! Hum, Jenny…..can you come here?”

I didn’t even notice Ari and Jenny taking me back outside. I couldn’t catch my breath. What the fuck was w
rong with me?! They walked me up to the ranch house and set me down on a chair. Emma walked out right then.

I can’t get enough air…
..
.
OH MY GOD……
I am going t
o die before I even get married!

“Ellie darling look at me. Look right at me.” Emma said as she
grabbed my face to look at her.

“Ellie take a deep breath in and blow it out.”

I tried
I
really did…
…
all I could take was small gasps of air and that was starting to not
be enough. Emma turned to Ari.

“Arianna, I want you to calmly go in the house and get Drew.”

Ari turned and ran into the house screaming out Gunner’s name.

Not thirty
seconds later there he was. He came out of the screen door and our eyes met. He came running over to me and landed on his knees in front of me.

“Ellie baby what’s wrong?” Gunner said with nothing but pa
nic in his beautiful blue eyes.

He grabbed my hands and I felt that familiar jolt of electricity. I instantly felt the tightness in my chest let up and I was able to take a deep breath. I threw myself at him and hugged him as hard as I could. He got up and lifted me up with him. I wrapped my legs around him and he started to walk off to the other side of the porch away from everyone.
God I loved to be in his arms like this. It was my favorite way for him to hold me.

He was running his hand down my hair. “
Shhh
baby, it’s okay. I’m here sweetheart. Can you tell me
what’s wrong baby
? Are you having second thoughts?”

What?! NEVER!

I kept my face buried into him. My god he smelled so damn good. I was starting to ge
t that ache in between my legs.

“NEVER!
I want nothing more than to marry you Drew Mathews. I’m not sure what happened to be honest. All I know is I needed to see you and the thought of not being
able to see you at that moment,
I guess it made me panic. I love you! I love you so much!”

“Jesus baby you scared me. I love you too Ellie. I love you so damn much it hurts.”

I pulled back and looked into his eyes. “I feel the same way!”

He just laughed.

“You know we’
re not supposed to see each other b
efore the wedding. They say
it’
s
bad luck.”

“I know for a fact that is not true. Emma told me that she and Garrett saw each other the morning of their wedding. Look how happy they are!”

Gunner just smiled at me as he pushed me into the side of the house and started to kiss me with so much passion I thought I was going to explode. Oh shit I could not wait to sp
end the night with him tonight!

“Can we sneak off somewhere real quick?” I asked as I pushed myself into him.

“My greedy
greedy
little girl.
What am I going to do with you?” Gunner asked as he bit my lower lip. I let out a low slow moan.

“Um, Ellie…we really need to get you back and start getting ready.”

I looked
at Gunner and made a sad face.

“Soon, baby…
…
soon.” He slid me down his body
in that oh so slow way he had.

“See
ya
soon?” I said as I looked up at him.

“See
ya
soon baby.”

After we got back from che
cking everything out
I
felt so
much better. I thin
k just being in Gunner’s arms is
what calmed me down. The cabin was so full of hair spray I thought I was going to die. Jenny must have sensed it was bugging me because she told her friend
s
Ron
and Jet, who were
stylist
s
from Austin, to s
pray outside from now on.

“I just cannot figure out what the hell is wrong with him.” Ari was saying to Amanda.
I was pretty sure she was talking about Jefferson. I needed to push that from my mind today.
I looked their way and they both looked beautiful. Ari, Amanda and Heather were all wearing their hair down but curled. Heather was getting hers curled right now and then she wo
uld be next for the spray down.

Jet was doing my hair and I loved it!
She curled it all in big curls and then piled it all on my head. She pulled pieces of my hair down to frame my face and the back of neck. I smiled as I watched her put baby’s breath all thr
oughout my hair. I gave Gunner five
minutes before he was pushing a pi
ece of hair back behind my ear.

Jet was going on and on about something. I had
tuned
her out after the first five
minutes and just thought about Gunner. I closed my eyes and pictured his blue eyes looking
into mine as we said our vows.

“Ellie did you hear me
honey
?”

I opened my eyes to see Jet staring at me.

“
Oh
,
I’
m so sorry
;
what was that?”

“How do you like it honey
, you
r
hair. Do you like it
?”

I looked into the mirror. I looked perfect. I had just a small amount of makeup on but the way
Ari did my eye makeup really mad
e my blue eyes stand out. The tint of pink on my lips was perfect and my hair…
..
.my hair looked beautiful. Was that even me in the mirror?

“Jet
…
…it is just so
amazing. I love it so much! It looks elegant yet simple.”

Jet smiled from ear to ear then picked up a can of hair spray and
sprayed the shit out of my hair
. God I needed oxygen by the time she was done
. Clearly she didn’t hear the
NO
s
praying hair spray inside rule.

I didn’t even notice Ari, Amanda and Heather each going behind the giant sheet that was placed so everyone could change. I looked over and saw Ari walking out in the pale pink sleeveless sundress. Oh my…
..
.she took my breath away. The gray silver cowboy boots she had on were perfect
…
…just like she said they would be. She smiled at me as she put on her white cowboy hat. I wanted to jump up and down it looked so fucking good! Just then I saw Amanda and then Heather. They looked like super models…
…
all three of them. I just stared at them. They started to laugh and Ari said something to Heather about getting the same reaction from Josh. Heather hit Ari in the arm and told h
er to go to hell.

Then Jenny walked up to me.

“Ellie, i
t’s time to put your dress on.”

Oh wow…
…
this was it. I was putting on the dress that the four of us spent days searching for. We ended up finding it at the last bridal store we went to in Austin. I was so sick of trying on dresses I was ready to give up. I told Ari I was trying on
one more dress and that was it.

When I looked at myself in the mirror before stepping out to show the girls I almost cried.
MaryBeth
, the bridal consultant who had been helping me try on dress after dres
s, leaned over and said, “That’
s the one. When you look in the mirr
or and want to cry…..then that’
s the dress meant for you.”

I looked over at her as I felt the tears roll down my face. I didn’t even bother wiping them away. I had to show the girls that very second.

I stepped out and hear
d three gasps at the same time.

“HOLY HELL!”
Amanda said.

“Oh my Ellie
it’s
perfect
honey
!” Heather said.

“JESUS, MARY
and JOSEP
H
,
holy fucking shit…
..
.that dress is beautiful!” Ari screamed out as she jumped up.
MaryBeth
helped me up onto the platform and spread the train all o
ut. Oh my god it was beautiful.

MaryBeth
started to t
ell us about the dress as I stared at myself in the mirror.

“Ladies, this is a Jim
Hjelm
wedding dress. It is a Silk Satin faced Organza A-line dress with a strapless embroidered bodice with crystals and hand-cut Silk Organza, Chiffon and
Charmeuse
. The natural waist is accented with
a
Platinum
moire
ribbon and has a bias cut asymmetrical ruffle skirt with a chapel train.”

All three of them just stared at poor
MaryBeth
. “Yeah
…….
whatever the
hell all that means…
..
.Ellie it’
s beautiful! Just
perfect! Get it…
….
Gunner is going to
be
ji
zzing
in his pants when he sees you in this!” Ari said as she jumped up and down.

I
let out laugh as I thought
about that day. I stood up and walked over to the curtain. Jenny and Ari stepped behind with me and helped me get dressed. I started with a white lace bustier along with a pair of blue panties that Ari bought for my something blue. I slipped the garter belt on
that had been used by Emma in her wedding, my something old
,
and started to roll on my
satin
thigh high sheers on. I was wearing cowboy boots under my dress but Ari insisted I wear thigh highs with a garter belt because it would driver Gunner mad when he saw me. I slipped the garter around my leg and up my thigh. It was pa
le pink and a gift from Heather
, my something new
. Now for the dress…
..
.
I was shaking from head to toe.

Jenny and Ari carefully helped me into the dress and
helped to
adjust everything just right. I loved the platinum ribbon belt so much!
Ari helped me slip
on my cowboy boots and
I
wa
lked out from around the sheet.

Amanda and Heather both let out a gasp and Heather started to cry.

“Don’t make her cry! D
amn you
Heather
, you’
re such a fucking sap
!” I looked over at Ari and she was the one starting to cry!

Jenny’s cell phone rang as Jet was handing the girls
all their bouquets of daisies.

“Okay, they are here.”

Gunner would not tell me how I was getting to the wedding
sight; he
just kept saying it was a secret. Jenny had a huge smile on her face as she handed me my bouquet of pink roses
that had a small hanky that Emma carried with her bouquet, my something borrowed
.
I smiled down at Lauren, the flower girl. She was so sweet in her pale pink dress and pink cowboy boots. Ma
t
thew was beyond handsome! Gunner picked out what Ma
t
thew was wearing. He had
on blue jean overalls,
cowboy boots and a cowboy hat.

Amanda and Heather put their cowboy hats on and walked out first. The p
hotographer had been there ever
since we
started to get ready and she had been
snapping away. Then
Ari,
Lauren and Matt walked out. Jenny stepped aside so I could move out the door while she and Jet carried my train. I stopped
dead
in my tracks.

A carriage?

Fuck me….
.
.I looked
over
and was shocked to see another one! Ari was helping Lauren and Ma
t
thew
climb up
in
to
a pink carriage….a carriage for Christ sakes! My future crazy romantic husband had carriages
picking us up. I had to laugh.

Oh
…..
…I was so going
to give him a blow job tonight for this!

Jenny gave me a little nudge to move me along. I was helped into a beautiful whit
e Cinderella looking carriage and I was shocked
to see Garrett sitting there.