Dominating Love ✓

[Chapter Thirty]

Chapter Thirty

As soon as I stepped back into the reception area it was like I was a different person, I felt like a different person. The bottom part was gone, shed like the weight of the sadness I had felt, I was lighter.

David was standing in the middle of the floor alone waiting for me and I stepped up to him and he smiled at me and held out his hand and I took it.

“Oh, why you look so sad, the tears are in your eves, come on and come to me now. Don’t be ashamed to cry. Let me see you through ‘cause I’ve seen the dark side too. When the night falls on you and you don’t know what to do, nothing you confess could make me love you less, I’ll stand by you, won’t let nobody hurt you.”

The song was perfect, he was my second father growing up and now he was my father-in-law. He’s been there for me since I was five, he’s seen nearly twenty years of my life and he was just involved in my life as my parents were in Chase’s.

I pushed Linda and David away when my parents passed away and I was tired of doing that. I didn’t realize how childish and insulting it was, even though they fully understand; it doesn’t change that I had been acting like less than the woman my parents raised me to be.

Loving them doesn’t make me love my parents any less and my own parents would have been ashamed and horrified at how badly I shut them out from my life. I know they both loved me and that was okay, it was okay to love them back.

He danced with me and he would spin me around and I felt happy, he held me the way only a dad could as he sang the song in my ear and I smiled and laughed and the little bit of tears I shed were happy ones.

This song meant a lot to me, he picked it and it was like he was telling me he still loved me. He would protect me and he’s there if I need to talk or cry or scream. He’s there for me for everything and when life becomes too much he’ll still be there.

When the song ended I kissed his cheek and he squeezed my hand.

And I know this was our wedding but we decided we would feed everyone before we did our second dance and not make them sit there for hours watching one dance after another.

People got up and go their food and Chase and I went from table to table greeting everyone and thanking them for coming. I knew some people would leave early but I knew a lot of them would also stay here into the late hours, enjoy the bar and dance when we put the fun music on.

Everyone was fed and happy when we started toasts. Anyone could get up and make a speech and the mic was passed as person after person said one sweet thing after another. Some made you want to cry and some left us laughing so hard we were almost in tears. Once guests made their speeches Chase and I had our second dress.

“I didn’t expect this.” he told me as he looked at my dress

“Well if we’re going to have a proper dance we can’t have all that fluff in the way.” I joked and he smiled at me as he took my hand and ‘How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You’ came on.

It was a fun and sweet song to dance too and after the first chorus we invited couples to join up. Monica pulled Riley onto the dance floor and Rochelle grabbed Scott’s hand.

It was funny. Riley was completely at ease dancing with Monica, Riley was a better dancer than even Chase thanks to dance classes since we were nine, but Scott looked freaked out being in front of so many people. Rochelle knew how to dance and tried to lead Scott, he stumbled a little but it wasn’t that bad.

Linda and David joined us as did Tina and her husband Frank, friends of mine from college.

This wedding reminded me of how many people I didn’t hang out with, actually the last few years I’ve mostly stayed to the same small group of people but I didn’t want to do that anymore, I wanted to see my friends and reconnect with them. I didn’t want to seclude myself from the world anymore.