Mine To Promise, page 1
mine to promise
natasha madison
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contents
FAMILY TREE’s for: Southern Wedding, the Southern, SOMETHING SO, THIS IS, ONLY ONE & MADE FOR
1. Addison
2. Stefano
3. Addison
4. Stefano
5. Addison
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29. Addison
Epilogue One
Meet Natasha Madison
Also by Natasha Madison
Acknowledgments
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family tree’s for: southern wedding, the southern, something so, this is, only one & made for
Southern Wedding Family Tree
Mine To Have
Harlow & Travis
Charlotte
Theo
Mine To Hold
Shelby & Ace
Mine To Cherish
Clarabella & Luke
Mine to Love
Presley & Bennett
Violet
Mine To Take
Sofia Barnes & Matthew Petrov
Mine To Promise
Stefano Dimitris & Addison
Avery
Southern Family Tree
Billy and Charlotte
(Mother and father to Kallie and Casey)
Southern Chance
Kallie & Jacob McIntyre
Ethan McIntyre (Savannah’s Son)
Amelia (Southern Secrets)
Travis
Southern Comfort
Olivia & Casey Barnes
Quinn (Southern Heat)
Reed (Southern Sunshine)
Harlow (Mine to Have)
Southern Storm
Savannah & Beau Huntington
Ethan McIntyre (Jacob’s son)
Chelsea (Southern Heart)
Toby
Keith
Southern Sunrise
Emily & Ethan McIntyre
Gabriel
Aubrey
Southern Heart
Chelsea Huntington & Mayson Carey
Tucker
Southern Heat
Willow & Quinn Barnes
Grace
Charlie
Southern Secrets
Amelia McIntyre & Asher
JB Normand
Southern Sunshine
Hazel & Reed Barnes
Sofia (Mine To Take)
Kaine
Denver
SOMETHING SO, THIS IS ONLY ONE & MADE FOR FAMILY TREE!
Hockey Series
SOMETHING SO SERIES
Something So Right
Parker & Cooper Stone
Matthew Grant (Something So Perfect)
Allison Grant (Something So Irresistible)
Zara Stone (This Is Crazy)
Zoe Stone (This Is Wild)
Justin Stone (This Is Forever)
Something So Perfect
Matthew Grant & Karrie
Cooper (Only One Regret)
Frances (Only One Love)
Vivienne (Made For You)
Chase (Made For Me)
Something So Irresistible
Allison Grant & Max Horton
Michael (Only One Mistake)
Alexandria (Only One Forever)
Something So Unscripted
Denise Horton & Zack Morrow
Jack
Joshua
Elizabeth
THIS IS SERIES
This Is Crazy
Zara Stone & Evan Richards
Zoey
Stone (Made for Stone)
This Is Wild
Zoe Stone & Viktor Petrov
Matthew (Mine To Take)
Zara
Lexi
This Is Love
Vivienne Paradis & Mark Dimitris
Karrie
Stefano (Mine To Promise)
Angelica
This Is Forever
Caroline Woods & Justin Stone
Dylan Stone (Formally Woods) (Only One Forever)
Christopher
Abigail (Made For Us)
Gabriella (Made For Romeo)
ONLY ONE SERIES
Only One Kiss
Candace Richards & Ralph Weber
Ariella
Brookes
Only One Chance
Layla Paterson & Miller Adams
Clarke
Only One Night
Evelyn & Manning Stevenson
Jaxon
Victoria
Only One Touch
Becca & Nico Harrison
Phoenix
Dallas
Only One Regret
Erika & Cooper Grant
Emma
Mia
Parker
Matthew
Leo
Felicia
Only One Mistake
Jillian & Michael Horton
Jamieson
Bianca
Bailey
Only One Love
Frances Grant & Brad Wilson
Stella
Only One Forever
Dylan Stone & Alex Horton
Maddox
Maya
Maverick
James
Made For Me
Julia & Chase Grant
Made For You
Vivienne Grant & Xavier Montgomery
Made For Us
Abigail Stone & Tristan Weise
Penelope
Payton
Made For Romeo
Romeo Beckett & Gabriella Stone
Mine to Take
Matthew Petrov & Sofia Barnes
Mine To Promise
Stefano Dimitris & Addison
about mine to promise
From Wall Street Journal & USA Today bestselling author Natasha Madison comes a small town, one night stand, secret baby, second chance romance. When two worlds crossover. From the This Is Series and The Southern Series.
Addison
I never thought I would see him again.
Especially while I was planning someone else’s wedding—yet there he was holding hands with his girlfriend.
Our one night was wild and passionate; I could never forget him because it changed my life.
Now he’s here—and the result of our one night is twirling in a princess dress at our feet.
Stefano
I didn’t make mistakes.
I was the one you called in when you needed answers.
I was cutthroat but they didn’t pay me to be nice.
I was in control every single second.
The only time I let my guard down was five years ago.
If I thought seeing the woman I could never forget again would throw me off—it’s nothing like seeing our daughter for the first time.
prologue
Dearest Love,
Well, well, well, what can I say.
Two universes are about to meet again.
Five years later.
Just this time there is more than the two of them.
How will Stefano react when he sees Avery?
How will Addison react to them co-parenting?
How will the family react?
Only time will tell.
XOXO
Love NM
addison
“What do you mean she fell?” I ask with my teeth clenched, one step away from a total panic attack.
“I mean, she drank a little bit too much sweet tea and she fell,” Zara says from the other end, trying not to laugh but laughing still the same. “It will be fine. We’ll take care of it.” Zara, the future groom Mathew’s aunt, was supposed to be taking care of things.
“Where is Ingrid?” I look over my shoulder to make sure no one sees me panic. “Can I talk to her?” Ingrid was in charge of serving drinks an
I hear yelling from the other end of the phone, some giggles, well, lots of giggling, and then Ingrid comes on the line. “Hello.” She sounds like she’s one step away from losing it.
“There will be no more drinking,” I order. “It’s coffee and water and get them some food.”
“On it,” she replies and then quickly hangs up.
“She’s coming,” someone says, and then I turn to watch. I can hear myself breathing heavily but try to do it as silently as I can, which is proving to be harder than I thought. My heart is beating a million times a second, if that is even possible. I have never in my life been this nervous. Well, that isn’t exactly true. There have been other moments. Monumental moments, actually.
I can count on one hand when my life undertook a major change. One was the time I had my first ever one-night stand. The second was when I found out I was pregnant from said one-night stand. The third was being cut off from my whole family and giving birth alone. The fourth was getting this job, and now the fifth is them giving me the reins for this wedding.
I swear to God, I can feel the drops of sweat pouring off me as my hands shake. I look over at Clarabella, Presley, and Shelby—the four of us are hidden in the middle of a forest, waiting for the surprise proposal to happen. We all know Sofia is going to say yes; she’s been in love with Matty since they went to college together. Sure, they had a break between and he did get engaged to someone else, but that led them to be together again. I mean, it’s not every day your wedding planner is the ex-love of your life. It’s also not every day, you leave your fiancée for your wedding planner once you realize you’ve been in love with her and only her your whole life.
“The wait is killing me,” I whisper to Clarabella, who stands beside me. Shelby stands on the other side of Clarabella next to Presley. The three of them have the biggest and most prestigious event-planning business. They originally started out just doing weddings and then slowly started adding in corporate events. That took off so much, they have recently decided Clarabella, Shelby, and Presley would take care of the corporate side of the company, leaving Sofia to handle the wedding side. The first thing she did was officially place me as a junior event planner. I have been working under her to make sure I would be ready. News flash, I was not ready. I mean maybe I was, but I was definitely not ready for today.
When Matty came into the office last month to let us know he was proposing, we went wild. He then told us he not only wanted to propose to her but also get married at the same time. If I thought that was nuts, imagine my surprise when he left and the three of them looked at me and said, “Congratulations, you just landed your first client.” I was shocked to say the very least. I told them I couldn’t do it. I wasn’t ready, but push came to shove, and they said they were going to be there in case I needed them. From that day, the next two weeks were the most stressful of my life. Not only was I planning this wedding but I was doing it in secret, which made it even more stressful. Let’s just say, tonight I’m going to have the biggest drink of my life, then properly collapse.
“It’s happening?” someone whispers from beside me, and I see Sofia and Matty walk into the open space we spent the morning decorating. I wanted it to be magical, so the trees have tea lights wrapped around them. I made the men wrap every single tree you could see in the distance with lights. I got a lot of huffing and puffing, but for Sofia and Matty, they did it.
Sofia looks around confused, and then she gasps when Matty gets down on one knee. My hand goes to my heart. I don’t know about everyone else, but I stop breathing as we listen to him.
“Sofia.” You can hear the smile and love in the way he says her name. She doesn’t say a word. Instead, she steps back and shakes her head.
I don’t hear what she says, but I see Matty smile at her. It’s a look I see often. It’s a look I secretly wish for myself one day.
“From the moment I laid eyes on you, I knew two seconds later I had to know who you were.” She laughs at his joke. He calmly says the two words that will change them from dating to engaged. “Marry me?” he asks her, and I can’t stop the lone tear from running down my face. “After all the ways I practiced asking you this, the only two words I can remember are those two. When I was getting ready to propose to you, I went to my father and told him. He came with me to ask your father for your hand in marriage.” Sofia mumbles something, and then her laughter fills the forest. I look at the other side of the clearing to see her family there waiting for her to answer. “Yeah, well, he said no. Luckily for him, I was going to do it no matter what he said.” He takes the black box out of his pocket, and all I can do is hold my hands up and cross my fingers. My eyes are closed as I wait for the words. “So, what do you say, Sofia? Will you marry me and make me the happiest man in the world?”
I wait for her to say yes, but instead, all I hear is gasps from all around me. I open my eyes in time to see the ring box flying out of his hand. My eyes follow the ring box to make sure I know where it lands. “Oh my God!” Sofia shrieks. “The ring!” she yells, and I hear voices.
“He had one job,” her father, Reed, says from the other side of the forest. I look at the sisters, who all shake their heads.
“She charged him,” Viktor, Matthew’s father, says coming out of their hiding place. “Was he supposed to let her fall?” Matty quickly reaches out and grabs the box. “He found it, you see,” Viktor proclaims loudly.
“This was supposed to be just the two of us,” Matty tells Sofia, and she just grabs his face and kisses his lips, saying something else to him.
“I really wish she would speak up,” Clarabella says from beside me.
“We should have snuck mics into their clothes,” Shelby hisses.
“Can you imagine if we did that, and they had sex before?” Presley looks over at us.
“Can you imagine if we did that and gave everyone headsets to listen to it? Or better yet, broadcasted it to everyone waiting at the barn?” Shelby shakes her head.
“Why would your mind even go there?” Clarabella chides. “It’s always the worst-case scenario.”
“No, it’s not true. Remember when Travis was going to get married, and our event space almost burned down, and then the ‘bride’”—Shelby uses her hands to do quotations—“ended up in the emergency room? I never once said we shouldn’t do this.”
“Yes, you did.” Presley laughs. “You said if Mom wasn’t going to kill me, I’d tell him to perhaps rethink things.”
I can’t help but roll my lips when I see Shelby tilt her head to the side as she remembers it. “I mean, if that wasn’t worst case, I don’t know what is.”
“I’m not saying no!” Sofia yells over her shoulder, making all of us look at her again. “I will never, ever say no.”
“Is that a fact?” Matty asks her, and I just smirk. “So, if I said, let’s get married today?”
“He did not,” Reed groans. “Did he just—”
“Here we go,” Shelby states, “do or die.”
“Why is it die?” I hiss. “Never die. Always live.”
“Matthew,” she says, and I hold up my hand.
“What if I said I took care of everything, and all you have to do is choose the dress?” She isn’t the only one who hisses at that. All the men do as well. You see, to pull this off, we had to sneak around and pretend it was going to be just an engagement celebration. But what they didn’t see was all the details we snuck in. They were so busy worrying about the proposal space, no one picked up on the fact we had wedding dresses delivered. We had to bring in Zara, who owns Zara’s Closet and is the most sought-after personal stylist in the world, to ensure all dresses were available. We swore her to secrecy, and it was hard since Matty’s mom is her twin. Do I think she kept her word? No. Do I think Zoe hid it well? Yes.
