Last chapter everyone it's been an amazing ride thanks for sharing it. Hope you all enjoy this ending to what has been a pretty intense story.

It's pretty long so get comfy.

Ch. 52 Happy Endings

(BIANCA)

*****July 15th 11 months since Owen's proposal*****

"How is your sister doing this? I've been staring at this book of invitation samples for two hours and they all look exactly the same to me," I huff setting down the book on our coffee table.

"She's had a year to pick all this stuff out, besides Owen actually has an opinion on it," Drew replies sitting on the sofa next to me. He puts his arm around me and joins our lips for a kiss. I scoot down a little and put my head on his shoulder.

Drew, Owen and I graduated college this year and we all went to each other's graduation ceremonies. Last month Drew and I moved in to together, we have a little apartment in Riverdale a few miles from his parent's house. This past Valentine's Drew proposed to me and of course I said yes. We'd recently settled on a wedding date but while Clare seemed to be all giddy with wedding planning this summer it was making my head hurt.

"I honestly don't think I can do this Drew. I love you and I want to marry you very much I'm just not so sure about the whole wedding part."

"Then let's not have one," Drew says and I sit up to look at him.

"What?"

"Let's just get married now. We'll go to city hall or one of those quickie chapels, we'll call my family and have them meet us there. We'll call Owen and Fitz; Adam can bring Anya we'll get married in front of them. Then we'll have a reception at my parent's house this weekend, a little last minute but I imagine all the truly important people to us will be there and we can forget all this wedding stuff."

"I love you, so so so much," I grin and kiss my fiancé deeply.

"I love you, now we got a ton of people to call and we gotta find a place to get married," Drew grins.

"You call your parents I'll call Clare I think she's with Owen," I smile. We each get our cell phones and Drew goes into the bedroom to call his parents, probably in case Audra yells.

"Hey B," Clare answers.

"Hey are you with Owen?"

"Yep he's right here."

"Good put me on speaker," I instruct her.

"Okay you're on speaker."

"Hey B," Owen calls.

"Hi you two got any plans this evening?" I question.

"Just dinner why what's up?" Owen asks.

"Drew and I are getting married."

"Yes we know," Clare says slowly.

"No like tonight, so you two will be there right?"

"Yeah of course," Clare says.

"Great we need to call a few more people but we'll call you back with a place and time."

I hang up with them and call Fitz, Drew comes out and says he called Adam and his parents and they're all coming. We call city hall but they're booked but we find a little chapel in Scarborough that will do it tonight and even provides the marriage certificate. We send out a text with the place and time and then we hit them mall for something to wear. Drew rents a tux his was easy, then we hit stores with formal wear. I decide not to wear white but I find a silver dress, strapless and with a black sash around the waist. Now that we have our clothes we go to Drew's parent's house. Adam, Clare and Maya all still live here and all are in college now. Maya attends the music program at Ryerson and will be in her sophomore year this fall.

"We picked up some flowers," Clare tells me when we walk in.

"Awesome, I'm going to change and then we should go. Drew get in your tux," I tell him.

"Yes Ma'am," Drew grins and goes upstairs with the boys.

Clare, Maya, Anya and my about to be mother-in-law are already dressed. Clare's in a nice ice blue dress, Maya wears soft pink and Anya green while Audra has a cream colored skirt and matching blazer with a grey blouse. We get dressed, Audra does my hair and Anya my makeup, I grab my bouquet then we take two cars to the chapel in Scarborough. The guys took one car and we took another, Drew's already seen the dress however but still tells me I look beautiful when he sees me at the chapel.

"Welcome I'm Pastor Daniel who is the happy couple?" A nice looking man in his late forties asks when we arrive.

"That would be us, Drew and Bianca," Drew grins.

"Right this way, happy couple under the archway there and the rest of you sit anywhere you like. Oh unless you have a best man and a maid of honor?"

"No we hadn't decided on that yet either," I shake my head.

Everyone else sits down and Drew and I hold hands facing each other under the archway. Pastor Daniel stands in front of us on the other side of the archway, he has us fill out the marriage certificate and then he begins.

"We come together on this day to witness the joining of these two people. Marriage is a bond made from the ties of love. In marriage we not only say, I love you today, but also I promise to love you for all of our tomorrows. Drew and Bianca, in the days ahead of you, there will be stormy times and good times, times of conflict and times of joy. I ask you to remember this advice: Never go to bed angry. Let your love be stronger than your anger. Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend than to break. Believe the best of your beloved rather than the worst. Confide in your partner and ask for help when you need it. Remember that true friendship is the basis for any lasting relationship. Give your spouse the same courtesies and kindnesses you bestow on your friends. Say I love you every day. Did the two of you want to recite your own vows?"

"Yeah sure," Drew nods. "Bianca I love you more than anyone. You have been the greatest thing in my life for so long I can't ever imagine my life without you. I promise to always listen, to never leave the toilet seat up, to always say I love you and kiss you every chance I get. You are my best friend, my lover, my teacher and my reason for breathing."

I smile wide when Drew finishes and really want to kiss him right now. I squeeze his hands and it takes me a few deep breaths to stop being so giddy that I can speak.

"Andrew I love you more than life. You are my savior and my protector, my best friend and my lover, my rock and my strength. I can't imagine a life without you because there is no life without you. You make me happy, you hold me when I'm sad, calm me when I'm angry and protect me even from myself at times. I can't wait to spend the rest of my life with you."

"Drew with this understanding, do you take Bianca to be your wedded wife to live together in marriage? Do you promise to love her, comfort her, honor and keep her for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, forsaking all others and to be faithful only to her, so long as you both shall live?"

"I do," Drew smiles.

"Bianca with this understanding, do you take Drew to be your wedded husband to live together in marriage? Do you promise to love him, comfort him, honor and keep him for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, forsaking all others and to be faithful only to him, so long as you both shall live?"

"I do."

"May I have the rings please?"

"Oh rings! We didn't think of rings," I gasp.

"Here use these for now," Audra says standing up and handing us her and Omar's wedding rings.

"The ring, an unbroken, never-ending circle, is a symbol of committed, unending love. Drew, as you place this ring on Bianca's finger, repeat these words after me: This ring, a gift for you."

"This ring, a gift for you," Drew says.

"Symbolizes my desire that you be my wife," the pastor says and Drew repeats, "from this day forward. As this ring has no end neither shall my love for you," the pastor says and Drew repeats it placing the ring on my finger. Then Pastor Daniel says the same words only replacing wife with husband, and I repeat them putting the ring on Drew's finger. "Drew and Bianca, in your journey of life together, remind yourselves often of the love that brought you together. Give the highest priority to your love. When challenges come, remember to focus on what is right between you. In this way, you can ride out the storms. And when clouds hide the sun in your lives - remember, even if you lose sight of it for a moment, the sun is always there. Drew and Bianca, you have consented together in holy matrimony before God, have pledged your vows to each other, and have exchanged rings as tokens of your love and commitment to each other. In accordance with the laws of the province of Ontario, with the authority of God's Word, and with great joy, I now pronounce you husband and wife. You may seal your vows with a kiss! Congratulations, Mr. and Mrs. Torres!"

I smile at Drew and our lips couple together in a loving kiss. Everyone is cheering for us and we break apart smiling. After thanking Pastor Daniel and paying him we go out to dinner to celebrate. Then Drew and I spend the entire night making love. The next day between alerting everyone to our wedding reception at the Torres house tomorrow Drew and I go to the jewelry store with his parents, and my now in-laws, and pick out wedding rings. Audra and Omar pay for them, they insist on it saying that we saved them all the money on a wedding. We still pick out very simple rings but rings that we like. On Sunday we go to the Torres house, it's a potluck since it was rather last minute and we still are not entirely sure who all is showing up. It doesn't much matter though we already got married in front of absolutely the most important people in our lives.

"Hey Darcy and Peter called they're on their way over and they're bringing Noah," Clare tells us when we reach the house.

"Oh yay I can't wait to see him," I grin. Noah is Darcy and Peter's five week old son.

"We've heard from everyone they're all coming," Adam says.

"Sweet so we better set up," Drew remarks hugging his siblings.

We set up and people begin arriving, we greet Anya, Fitz, Owen, Tris and the Milligan parents. Fitz's mom, Zig, Lucas, Mia and Izzy, Snake, Spike, Jack, Emma, Spin and little Blake, Jane, Sean, Reese and Paige, Jay, Manny, Johnny and Dallas and last to arrive are Darcy, Peter and Noah.

"Congratulations you two," Darcy smiles as they hug us.

"Noah is so cute," I gush looking at the baby boy in Peter's arms. We saw him when he was three days old and they brought him home from the hospital but he's grown so much. After a talking to a few more people we get some food and sit down with Clare, Owen, Fitz, Maya, Adam, Paige, Sean, Reese, Lucas, Mia, Spin and Emma.

"We have news," Paige speaks up and looks at Reese.

"I'm going to be a big brother," Reese grins.

"That's wonderful news," I smile.

"How far along are you?" Clare asks.

"Eight weeks," Paige says with a big grin.

"That's exactly how far along I am," Mia speaks up.

"Mia you're pregnant too?" I exclaim.

"We just found out this morning, we told Izzy but asked her to keep it a secret," Mia smiles as Lucas puts his arm around her.

"This is great we'll be pregnant together, they'll grow up together," Paige grins.

"And well protected," Owen comments.

"Yeah very well protected, if the babies are boys or girls I'll protect them both," Reese says.

"Me too," Lucas nods.

"And me, so will Spinner, Jay, Owen, Fitz and Peter," Sean speaks up.

"So will me and Drew," Adam remarks.

"Hey we'll protect them too just because we're girls doesn't mean we can't protect too. Everyone here looks out for everyone, we're all one extended family and we're all very protective of each other," I point out and everyone nods in agreement.

We keep eating and I look at my husband and smile, looking at my new sisters and brother-in-law and around at everyone here, our close friends and extended family. I smile happily and kiss my husband.

(FITZ)

*****December 12th Five months since Drew and Bianca's wedding*****

"Hello Beautiful," I greet Maya when she gets in my car.

"Hi," she grins kissing me softly. "So where are we going to dinner?" She inquires.

"Actually Owen is out with Clare, they'll be gone for several hours and so I thought we'd eat at my place," I reply.

Last summer after he proposed to Clare Owen and I decided it was time to move out of his parent's house. So we got an apartment that was near our two schools. It's a two bedroom and Maya and Clare are over a lot but Owen and I share one bedroom and the girls share one when they stay over.

"Sounds wonderful," Maya grins.

"Of course I can't cook so we should grab some food to-go," I comment and Maya giggles.

We stop at and get food and we go back to my place. I didn't tell Owen about tonight I was too nervous, but I knew Owen was taking Clare to a show tonight and dinner first which meant they'd be gone a good four hours and that should be plenty of time.

We sit at the table and eat in silence, just watching each other and smiling, just happy to be in the others company. When we're done eating I clear the dishes and look at Maya.

"I finished a picture today, one I've been working on for a couple of weeks. Do you want to see it?" I ask.

"Of course I do I always want to see your artwork, I love your artwork," she smiles.

"Stay right there," I say and go back to my room retrieving the picture I've kept hidden from everyone all week. I had it framed and everything and I turn it upside down so Maya doesn't see it.

I hand it to her and she turns it over, she looks at it, really taking in the sight of the picture. Then her face lights up and her mouth changes between surprise and bliss. She just stares at it for a moment, unable to take her eyes off of it or speak and then she looks up at me.

"Mark is this…are you…" she stumbles over her words and looks back at the picture running her fingers over the glass frame. The picture I drew is Maya sitting at this exact table and me on one knee holding open a box with a shiny engagement ring in it.

"I'm afraid it's not as big as the one in the picture," I comment taking a box from my pocket and opening it as I go down on one knee, "Maya will you marry me?"

Maya looks between me, the ring and the picture I drew having envisioned this scene in my head a million times. She can't seem to get a word out yet but she starts nodding.

"Yes, yes," she finally says.

I take the picture from her hands setting it on the table and slip the ring onto her finger. I stand up and she stands with me our lips attaching in an elated kiss. We keep kissing for a while and I pick her up taking her to the sofa. I set her on my lap and we continue kissing for several minutes before breaking apart for air. Maya makes herself comfortable in my lap and stares at the ring on her finger.

"I want to call everyone and tell them but I want to tell Clare and Owen first," she says.

"Agreed but they probably won't be back for a couple of hours," I remind her. She simply grins and kisses me and we keep kissing until the door opens and Owen and Clare come in.

"Good your home, look," Maya grins showing them her ring. Clare shrieks happily and runs over looking at her sister's ring and the two embrace happily then Clare hugs me.

"This is incredible I'm so happy for you guys," Clare grins.

"Yeah congratulations both of you," Owen smiles hugging us both.

"I know I'm so happy I can't stop smiling but we wanted you two be the first to know. Have you kept all the stuff for wedding planning? I've liked everything you've picked out and we'll be inviting all the same people, literally all the same people. And I want to get married at the same church too," Maya says talking in a quick excited voice.

"Wait I have an idea, we should get married together," Clare speaks up. "We've already sent out invitations and you said it yourself you'd be inviting all the same people, you like everything we picked out and you want to get married at our church. You were going to be my maid of honor and Fitz was going to be Owen's best man but that's easy enough to change. We can send out announcements that it will be a double wedding and our wedding isn't until next year anyway so it will give people plenty of time to hear about it and for us to change whatever we need to."

"Yes it's a wonderful idea I love it. After everything we went through and how far we've come together sharing our wedding day would be such a perfect culmination of it all," Maya smiles so excited she's practically jumping off the sofa.

"Of course only if you two agree?" Clare says looking at me and Owen.

"I think it would be perfect," Owen smiles.

"Agreed," I grin and we both kiss our fiancés.

"Okay we have a few phone calls to make," Maya comments when we break apart.

"Yes and you'd better call our brothers first," Clare points out.

(CLARE)

*****December 22nd One year since Fitz proposed*****

I stand in front of the full length mirror with Maya looking at the sight of us with a smile on my face. Not just a smile of happiness, I am happy, happier than I've ever been in fact. My smile is a one of contentment and peace, serenity and love and the peak of what has been a very long road of healing and finding true love and happiness.

Maya and I look like princesses in our wedding dresses. Best of all we feel like queens, there was a time when we felt like nothing so feeling like a queen on the day we're going to marry the men that we love it's a good feeling.

Maya's dress is all white, with a bodice and off the shoulder sleeves; the long ball gown skirt is a separate piece. The bodice and skirt are embroidered with flowers and the embroidery is enhanced with beads. She wears pearl jewelry and white roses in her hair which is pinned up to show her face.

My dress is also long but it's not a full flared skirt. My dress is halter style with V-neckline and empire waist made by a sash of silver silk enhanced by flowers and designs done in silver and gold thread. The skirt on my dress flares out a little and there's a small train in back, the bottom of my dress is trimmed in silver and on my skirt and bodice is an elaborate design embroidered in silver and gold thread. I have amethyst jewelry representing my birthstone, a necklace and matching earring set that Owen gave me on my last birthday. My hair is partially pinned up with a silver hair comb.

After the decision to make it a double wedding last year Owen and I had to change our wedding party around a bit. Maya was going to be my maid of honor with Darcy and Bianca as my bridesmaids but now that Maya and I are both brides we decided Darcy and Bianca would be our maids of honor and there just wouldn't be bridesmaids. We can't have every important person to us in the wedding party or there would be more people in that than in the seats. Fitz was going to be Owen's best man, Adam and Drew his groomsmen but now Adam and Drew are the best men.

"The music is starting are you girls ready?" Mom asks.

"Yeah we're ready," I smile.

Izzy is the flower girl and she goes out first followed by Bianca and then Darcy. Then Maya and I get escorted by Mom and Dad. Owen and Fitz stand shoulder to shoulder in the center, Bianca and Darcy stand on one side and our brothers on the other. Mom and Dad kiss our cheeks and hug us then we take our husbands hands. Reverend Baker stands in front of us and begins.

"A wedding is the celebration of the miracle of love. Owen and Clare, Mark and Maya today, in the presence of God, we celebrate this miracle in your lives. Here are some wonderful words that define the true meaning of love. Love is patient and kind; Love is not jealous or boastful; Love is not arrogant or rude; Love does not insist on its own way; Love does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices with the right. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. Learning to love each other and to live together in harmony is one of the greatest challenges of marriage. Marriage is not to be entered into lightly, and we are to hold it in high honor at all times. Owen and Clare, Mark and Maya I charge you all as you stand in the presence of God, to remember that love, trust, and loyalty are the foundation of a happy and enduring marriage. No vows are more sacred than those you are about to make. If these vows are kept unbroken, and as you endeavor to do the will of your Heavenly Father, your lives together will be full of joy and love. Owen take Clare's hands, look into her eyes and recite your vows."

Owen smiles taking my hands, our eyes lock and he takes a breath, "Clare you are beautiful, amazing, intelligent, generous, brave and kind. Even in your darkest times there was a light in you that could not be extinguished. You truly are a miracle, my miracle and without you my life would be dark. Your inner strength makes me strong, your love gives me hope, gives me a strength I never knew possible. Your beauty both inner and outer lights my world and makes everyone's lives who touches yours a little brighter and a little better. You write beautiful poetry and have the strength to go after the truth no matter how hard it might be. The darkness you've suffered would have shriveled most people but you came out of it even stronger and able to take on so much. I have loved you for so many years, I have watched you heal and grow. I love you with every part of my soul. Sharing my life with you is the greatest of adventures; I look forward to every moment, the joyous ones and the hard ones. I vow on this day before God, our family and friends to be a man worthy of your love, of your beauty, strength and generosity. I vow to hold you and always be grateful you're in my arms. I vow to cherish the wonderful you that you are. I vow to love you now and always."

Owen finishes and I have happy tears running down my cheeks. From the corner of my eye I see mom crying happy tears. People are so silent I can barely hear them breathing.

"Mark please take Maya's hands and look into her eyes as you recite your vows," Reverend Baker says after a few seconds.

"Maya I'm not as good with words as Owen," Fitz says and a few people laugh in good nature. "I usually draw what I feel but that wouldn't work here and I tried to write vows but they never came out right. So I got some help from Owen to speak from my heart. Maya I love you so much just thinking of you makes me smile. I feel as though I've loved you my entire life. You make me happy, you make me complete. I vow on this day before God, our friends and our family to love you more and more each day. I vow to cherish you forever. I vow to appreciate each and every day with you. I vow to always remember what you've been through and to always be amazed by the amazing person that you are."

Fitz finishes and I hear my sister's breath catching in her throat, it makes me smile even more. My heart is pounding so much I think the entire church can hear it but it's an ecstatic pounding.

"Clare look at Owen and recite your vows."

"Owen my love for you comes from the deepest part of me. I lived in darkness, hate, sadness and brutality for so long I believed that's all there was. In the depths of that void, in a hopeless life where all I lived for was trying to protect Maya from pain and everyone from knowing you were the guiding light. You, with the help of others, brought me out and saved me. Nothing comes out of the dark untouched and when you're in it so long it's seeps into you. A lessor man, a weaker man would not have seen in me what you did. Owen because you saw beauty in me I saw it too and I vow to always see the beauty in you, in me and in us. Owen because you were strong at times when I couldn't have strength I vow to always find my inner strength and be yours when you need it. Owen because you always make smile I vow to laugh at all your jokes, to be happy that I'm alive and to always smile when we fight to make you laugh. Owen because you are kind, generous and caring to me, and to all that you care about, I vow to be grateful for you and appreciate all that you are and all that you do. Owen because you love me, because you love me so passionately, so deeply, so truly and intensely I vow to love you for the rest of my life and beyond. I vow to love every day we spend together, cherish every minute I have with you and honor the time that God gives us together."

I barely make it through my vows and I'm squeezing Owen's hands tightly. I'm only vaguely aware that there's a church full of people and only vaguely hear Reverend Baker tell Maya to say her vows.

"I'm not very good with words either," Maya says and people laugh again, me and Owen included. "I'm better at writing music and the occasional song but I also got some help with my vows. Clare helped me express what my heart sings about you. Mark my love you have been my happiness and my strength, my protector and my confidant for so long. I can't picture a life without you. Every day we're together I find another reason to love you. I vow here on this day in front of God and all those we love to love you, to honor you, to cherish you and be grateful for everything we have."

"Owen and Mark take the rings and place them on Clare and Maya's fingers," Reverend Baker instructs and Drew and Adam hand them the rings. "Owen do you take Clare to be your wife? Mark do you take Maya to be your wife?"

"I do."

"I do."

"Clare and Maya please place the rings on Owen and Mark's hands. Clare do you take Owen to be your husband? Maya do you take Mark to be your husband?"

"I do."

"I do."

"As you continue on your journey together, I ask you to remember this advice: The key to love is understanding as it is the little things that say so much by themselves. The key to love is forgiving to accept each other's faults and pardon mistakes. The key to love is sharing, sharing your good fortunes as well as bad, together. The key to love is giving, giving without thought of return, but with the hope of just a simple smile, and by giving in but never giving up. Owen and Clare, Mark and Maya, may your love never fade, may you never take each other for granted, and when you are old, may you be found, hand in hand, still thanking God for each other. Never forget to treat each other with tenderness, kindness, and respect, and remind yourselves often of what drew you together in the first place. I now pronounce you husband and wife and husband and wife, you may each kiss your bride."

Owen and I attach our lips as I'm sure Fitz and Maya do as well. Everyone begins clapping and Reverend Baker pronounces us Mr. and Mrs. Milligan and Mr. and Mrs. Fitzgerald. We finally break apart and then leave for the reception being held at the ballroom of a nearby hotel. The four of us take our first dance as husband and wife. We eat and dance a lot more, Maya and I each dance many times with our new husbands of course but we also each dance with Dad, Drew and Adam. We also both dance with Peter, Spinner and Snake. I dance with Fitz once and Maya dances with Owen once and I also dance with Reese while Maya dances with Zig. After lots of dancing it's time to cut the cake, each couple has a little cake and there's a big cake for all the guests. After cutting the cake and feeding each other a bite we get a piece and sit down.

"So you two set a date yet?" I ask Adam, he proposed to Anya a couple of months ago. Mom cried knowing the last of her kids was getting married.

"We're thinking next spring, March or April," Adam says just as Anya sits down.

"I want an outdoor wedding with lots of flowers," she tells us.

"Reese and I were thinking next fall," Jane announces coming over with Reese.

"Does that mean you two are engaged?" I ask.

"He proposed last night after the rehearsal dinner," Jane says showing us her ring.

I grin and hop up to hug them both, everyone else that heard also comes over to hug them and congratulate them. We sit back down after a few minutes and I look around the room at everyone. Paige and Mia each laughing at their young daughters eating cake, and getting it everywhere, Willow Cameron and Sasha Valieri are already the best of friends. Blake and Noah are playing together and Izzy is dancing with her father. I look at Owen and wonder when we might have kids and what they'll be like. I know that we'll love them, that we'll treat them with respect and be good parents.

The reception ends at ten, Maya and Fitz leave for their honeymoon tonight, they're taking a red-eye to Paris. They have two weeks touring France, a bevy of art and culture and music they'll love it. Owen and I leave in the morning and are spending our first night as husband and wife in this very hotel. Tomorrow we leave on a Mediterranean cruise. When we all return from our honeymoons Owen and I will be moving into our own apartment and so will Fitz and Maya, but we'll still be in the same building.

Fitz and Owen take off our garters and toss them into the crowd of single guys. Johnny catches mine and Zig catches Maya's. Maya and I throw the bouquets next then we hug our family goodbye and we walk Maya and Fitz out to the waiting car.

"See you in a few weeks Sis," Maya says hugging me.

"We made it, we got our happy ending," I smile.

I hug Fitz and she hugs Owen then they get in the car and we wave to them until they're out of sight. Then Owen picks me up in his arms and takes me up to the suite. He unlocks the door and carries me over the threshold closing the door and giving me a tender kiss.

"So my Gorgeous wife how do you feel?" Owen asks setting me down.

"Amazing," I smile, "and ready for tonight."

Owen sets me down and gives me a soft kiss again, then he goes behind me and slowly unzips my dress. He kisses each of my shoulder blades tenderly and my eyes close. I've had sex before of course, or more accurately I've been raped. With all the sexual experience I have it was forced upon me though, even when I was just giving into Reese. I've never been made love to before, until tonight. It took so long for an intimate touch not to evoke even the slightest bad memory or dark emotion in me from all the times Glen or Jake touched me. But Jake and Glen, all the torment I went through and the abuse it's all a long, distant and dimming memory and tonight is all about me and Owen.

He carefully takes off my dress and then picks me up setting me on the bed. He takes off my shoes kissing the tops of my feet clad in my white stockings. I decide I've lost enough clothes for the moment and it's time for Owen to take some off. I stand and take off his tie, his jacket and then he sits taking off his own shoes and pulling me into his lap. Our lips clasp together in a loving and passionate kiss and he unlatches the stockings from my garter belt rolling them off my legs. When they're off we stand up, Owen takes his shirt off and undershirt, he takes his belt off and his pants and now he's in nothing but boxers. He begins to take those off too but I stop him, pulling them down his legs. I stand again and he kicks his boxers away. Now that he's all naked he takes off my garter belt, corset and last my panties and then he smiles. A smile of lust yes but not lasciviousness, a smile of love, of bliss and excitement, a smile of appreciation and it makes me smile.

"You are so incredibly beautiful," Owen says and I blush a little.

"And you are incredibly handsome," I grin kissing him softly, "and sexy," I add as he picks me up and sets me on the bed.

I open my legs and our lips couple as his fingers strum softly at my pussy lips. I moan into the kiss, my legs opening a little more. I feel Owen's cock throbbing against my thigh and I become wet, aching to feel him, for me and my husband to become one. He spreads my slit open and guides himself in. My back arches, I moan and grip onto him as he enters me slowly. When he's nearly all the way in I break from the kiss to moan and Owen begins trailing gentle kisses along my body. He starts to pull out slowly and my eyes open locking with his.

Owen is slow and tender; every movement he makes brings me to a new level of pleasure and erotic sensation. This night of pure love and love making was worth waiting for and there isn't the least bit of fear in me, no dark thoughts it's just the two of us. Each breath we take together sends me to new sensations of elation and bliss. I have no idea how long we made love but it felt like hours. Just when I think I can no longer stand all the rapture and ecstasy I explode with it. My entire body shaking in immense orgasmic climax, my body trembling and my heart pounding, I cry out Owen's name at the very pinnacle of pleasure. Owen climaxes at the same moment I do, his own body shaking, his heart pounding along with mine and he cries out my name. We slow down our movements and Owen pulls out of me, he lies on his back and I roll over using his chest as a pillow.

"I love you Owen, I never thought I could be this happy or that this day would come. There was a time I thought Maya and I were nothing and we'd always be sex slaves. I never thought she or I deserved happiness or happy endings and we both got them."

Owen grins leaning over to kiss me, "And you both deserve them. I love you Clare Milligan my beautiful wife."

All the wedding vows were done by me but most of the rest of it were taken from officiator speeches found online.

That does it for this story it's been quite a ride, with some pretty intense chapters but I hope you all enjoyed it. Replacing this story and appearing next Sunday is Nothing to Say the Guilty are Safe.