After running away from home seven years ago to escape a loveless arranged marriage, Kyra Wilder has finally mastered up the courage to be back in her small town of Ruthwell in Washington DC. She’s ready for a second chance with her parents and the people who used to be her friends back in high school and most of all, she’s ready to tell her parents that she’s about to become a bride.
But the small town she lived in hasn’t changed all that much in the past seven years and no one seems to have forgotten her betrayal, or seems anywhere near ready to forgive her for her past mistakes. Everywhere she goes, she’s met with hostility and anger and it’s thinning out her chances of redemption ever second. Now, how does she tell her parents and her friends that not only has she moved on in her life, further than anyone had ever anticipated, but she’s happy and successful in what she does? And amid all the truths and revelations, how does she tell everyone that she isn’t marrying a man, but the woman of her dreams?

The Bride GL

“I want to be with you, Kyra, in every sense of the word." Gabby told me, taking my hand and placing it on her chest, right over her heart. 


I could feel the erratic beat of her heart through my palm, the way she was just as nervous as I was…it gave me a kind of reassurance that I wasn’t alone in all of this. She felt the same way too. 


It also made me realize that none of this was a dream, and I was living in the reality where I had found the love of my life…the person who would accept me for who I was and stay beside me no matter what. 


In that charged moment, the emotional floodgates opened, and our words became a torrent of passion and longing. 


"Kyra, I've never felt so alive before. Let's embrace this, let our hearts guide us.” She urged, bringing our bodies incredibly closer. “I want to be the one who holds you close, who shares every joy and goes through every challenge with you." 


Chapter 24: Intertwined With You