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Our story really was crazy. I couldn’t wait to tell it to our kids and grandkids one day. I’d always listened with rapt attention whenever Nana told me how she fell for my grandfather. Theirs was an epic love story. But so was ours.
“You know,” Duncan said, “I owe you an apology. When the whole fake dating thing started, I thought, he can never go through with it. Wyatt would, but not Griffin.”
“Thanks for the vote of confidence,” Griffin replied with a laugh. I giggled. Somehow, I couldn’t see Wyatt pulling off what we did. Then again, I didn’t know him very well. But he was like all the Sterlings—determined and stubborn. One thing I was sure of: when he’d fall for someone, he’d fall hard.
“What can I say, I’m rarely wrong.”
“Dad, don’t distract him,” Jeremy said.
As Griffin took his position to throw, Jeremy said loudly, “Phoebe, can you stay next to him to make sure he’s lucky?”
Griffin laughed as I grinned, stepping as close as possible to him without being in his way.
“That’s right, buddy,” Griffin said. “She truly is my lucky charm. And she always will be.”
