Alice & Patrick’s happily ever after

Hello Ma’am, I love the Alice books and I was wondering one thing after finally finding out how I could contact you, When and how did you decide you wanted Alice to marry Patrick who was her childhood sweetheart? Was it the plan through the whole series? thank you for reading this! xoxoxo

I’m not really sure.  I had to see how their personalities developed as the books continued and at some point I guess I fell in love with the idea of Alice and Patrick truly falling in love, and from then on I just knew….