Chapter 367

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• Claire's fingers clasped tightly around the bouquet she was holding. As the priests went on and on, she felt as if someone was digging into her heart with a pickaxe and was ripping it up from the inside…. As if her heart was being handed over to someone she wasn't yet ready to hand over anything to. And yet, he was being given her heart, of all things.
• "Today, Tyler and Claire, you stand before God and before these witnesses to join your lives as one. In doing so, you promise to love one another...."