I would be excommunicated and they would be disgraced. Also, I never gave any thought to the idea that you’d fall in love with my surrogate.” I started to demur, but Lizzie stopped me before I had two words out of my mouth. Xxx She kissed me good-night then snuggled that still slender body against mine. Toni and I stood together in the living room with David as best man and Beth as maid of honor and with Carl and the judge’s wife as our witnesses. Toni told me later that she had felt as though she had died and gone straight to Heaven. We strolled on the boardwalk for more than an hour as we window shopped and fed the pigeons and sea gulls before turning back in search of the Italian restaurant where we had planned to eat dinner.
