Their Divine Doctor(Divine Creek Ranch 9)(66)
Blake asked, “Do you have the rings?” Emma removed their rings from the pocket in her safety vest, giggling when a dolphin tickled the bottom of her foot.
She remembered wondering what it had been like for Maya, watching as she bound her heart to her men back in August. Now she knew.
Because they were floating in the Caribbean Sea, the men were not able to kneel, but everything else went according to plan. Everyone chuckled when dolphins squealed in apparent delight as Blake declared them bound to each other.
Blake congratulated them and then left them to spend some time with each other and the dolphins before they returned to the boat where the reception was getting underway. Her immediate family, including her hearing-impaired grandmother, was all able to attend.
Emma and her men chuckled when her grandmother asked, “What kind of a wedding was that? No matron of honor and the bride kisses the best man, too? What is this world coming to?”
Emma squealed when two dolphins nudged her feet so that she actually rose on the water’s surface.
Gage said, “Looks like they want to play, angel.”
Emma replied, “They sure do!” as she rose in the water again. “So what’s next on our list?”
Duke laughed and said, “We still haven’t sung karaoke.”
Gage chuckled and said, “I still can’t believe I agreed to add that to the list. I think you’re going to do that one without me.”
Emma shook her head and replied, “Oh no, mister. We do everything on our bucket list together.”
“Okay, but can it be something besides ‘I Will Survive’ by Gloria Gaynor?”
Desiree giggled from the boat and said, “Oh! I love that song! At first I was afraid, I was petrified. Kept thinking I could never live without you by my side…”
Emma’s mom jumped in the act next, melodramatically singing, “And then I spent so many nights, thinking how you did me wrong, and I grew strong, and I learned how to get along…”
Summer took the next few lines, until finally at the chorus they were all singing along, while Emma, Duke, and Gage looked on from the water, in amazement. Some of them had even started dancing while they sang.
Gage asked, “Is your grandma doing the running man?”
Emma giggled. “I don’t know, but now you know where I got my dancing talent from.”
Next, the musicians got into the spirit of the song, and before they knew it, everyone on the boat was line dancing to “I Will Survive,” even Ace Webster, Kemp Whittier, and Emma’s grandma, who could cut a rug when she set her mind to it.
While they were all distracted, Duke and Gage drew close to Emma in the water, and Gage murmured, “So, angel, was it everything you hoped it would be?”
Emma shook her head as the music played on. “No. It’s much more than I ever expected, Gage.”
Duke pressed his lips to her temple and said, “You’re stuck with us now, sweetheart.”
“There’s nowhere else I’d rather be, Duke.” She kissed them both, lingering at their lips as a sweet languor began to steal over her. Suddenly she gasped and giggled.
“Did one of the dolphins goose you? I think one nipped my butt a minute ago,” Duke said with a chuckle.
Emma shook her head. “Nope! Now I know what we have to sing at karaoke together. Sugarland’s ‘Stuck Like Glue.’ Whoa-oa, whoa-oa, stuck like glue, you and me baby we’re stuck like glue…What?” she asked. “Everyone knows that song! Come on,” she urged with a giggle as she wrapped a forearm around each man and kissed them gently one more time.
Duke slid a warm hand around her waist and kissed her throat. “You and me, baby, we’re stuck like glue.”
Gage mirrored Duke’s hold on her other side and whispered softly, “There you go making my heart beat again, heart beat again, heart beat again…”
Emma giggled, and the three of them put their heads together. She whispered, “I’d still be hiding if it wasn’t for you two…and a few friends.” She giggled as she looked toward the boat at the group still gyrating and line dancing.
THE END