The Secret Between Us
Chapter 29

A few days later

I can’t believe it, today is the big day… or maybe I should call it “the real day”. He and I in our convertible car driving through the streets of Toledo towards Consuegra, a little town not far from here with the Castillo de la Muela and a group of windmills -When you see the church where we’ll get married, you’ll love it- I hear him tell me and I turn to look at him and smile.

-If I marry you I don’t care if I do it in a nice church or under a hut… I swear that the only thing I want is to join my life with you forever,” I answer a little louder than usual because of the wind.

Izan smiles, takes one of his hands away from the steering wheel and caresses my knee -With you I will always try to make everything as good as possible, I can’t imagine my life without you my beauty- He tells me and when he speaks to me and looks at me like that, I feel like the world has stopped.

-I love you Izan De Luca, and no one will ever make that change,” I assure him.

-I love you too,” he says and releases me only to continue driving.

Little time passes when the beautiful view of the town of Consuegra comes before our eyes, and in these moments I feel like I’m inside a story like Don Quixote de la Mancha -It’s beautiful- I murmur getting lost in the views that are definitely much more beautiful than how they look on the internet.

-It is, and you see that church over there? – He asks me pointing to an incredibly beautiful church that stands out for its simplicity and its Castilian-Mudejar style.

-Is that where we’re getting married? – I ask excitedly.

-That’s right, it’s called the Church of San Juan Bautista, and as a curious fact, it was built in 1567, if you talk to the priest who agreed to marry us there, he will tell you a lot of very interesting details about the place, but to be honest, today I don’t have a head for anything else but you” He comments making me smile.

-We’ll have time for all that, today I just want us to think about the two of us,” I reply and the closer we get to the church, the harder my heart beats,

I’m nervous, but not because of fear, but because of the emotion this provokes in me. Some time ago, we believed that all this would be impossible, and in theory it still is, but we have forgotten what can and can’t be to make it a reality just because we want it to be.

The priest is an old man who doesn’t think the word “nice” is too small for him, he is having all the patience in the world with the two of us. He has given us a place to change and told us to take our time. I can’t fool myself, I would love my dad to support me through all this and be here with you as he is the only thing I have in my life. I wonder if my mother, wherever she is, would support such a thing… I guess not, after all she abandoned me when I was two years old, so little did she care about me, much less will she care about this.

I finish getting ready, and once I’m ready, I go out to the central nave of the church, and there I see Izan in his black dinner jacket waiting for me in front of the altar. He looks so handsome dressed like that and my eagerness leads me to walk towards him at a fast pace that makes me be there in a few minutes. I don’t know if this is the most romantic wedding in the world or not, but it’s real and for us that’s what counts.

-You look beautiful,” she compliments me with a huge smile tattooed on her face.

-You look very handsome too,” I reply with a smile and we settle in as the priest asks us to do so. He looks at us and smiles as I take the hand of the man who in a few minutes will be my husband to begin this intimate ceremony. We have been through many of the situations he does not mention, we have also overcome the trials and if there is one thing we do not doubt, it is that we are willing to love each other under each of the circumstances he mentions at this moment.

I feel like I’ve waited my whole life for this moment, and Izan’s gaze reflects the same. His green eyes, like mine, are crystallised, and when we say the “yes” that unites us forever, we both break into a cry that is a product of everything we have been through to get here. My now husband k****s me as if there were no tomorrow, and I respond in the same way until we realise where we are and decide to stop just out of respect for whoever sees us.

-I love you,” we say in unison and this time, those two words have a much stronger meaning than they have always had in our lives.

-My wife…” He murmurs, making me smile.

-Husband… You don’t know how happy I am right now.

-Of course I do, I’m just as happy, if not happier, than you are. – He says and kneels down in front of me to k**s my belly. “Now we’re going to be a family,” he murmurs, making me lose track of time just by looking at him.