C27 TWENTY SEVEN

Chance May Crown Me

DEREK

If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me.

— William Shakespeare, Macbeth

THE SUN SHONE bright, dancing over our magical roses as I waited for my bride to walk down the aisle sprinkled with multi-colored rose petals.

In the three months since the winter solstice, our lives had evolved into something I could have never imagined