“Bella!” Emily rushes into the room, ignoring all but Bella. “What happened?” Emily cups Bella’s face. “I felt a pain in my cheek, and I just knew it was you.”
“You!” Mum yells again while reaching for Emily.
Bella grabs her mate and pushes Emily behind her back.
“Stay away from my mate. You may have gotten away with putting your hands on me, but you lay one finger on Emily, and I’ll kill you.”
“Don’t you dare threaten me! You’re my daughter, and this witch has cast some sort of lesbian spell on you. Well, I’ll make sure she’s forced to remove it, then I’m taking you away from this godawful place.”
“Mum,” She refuses to look at me, so I take her arm and force her to look at me.
As I make my way down the flowery makeshift aisle, my arm looped with my fathers, my stomach flutters. I’m nervous but excited.There are so many people here. Thousands, in fact, because the whole pack is here to witness this. I see so many familiar faces and gasp in surprise when I see Mason with Katy. I knew Katy would be here, but I didn’t think Mason would come.He winks at me while Katy blows kisses.I smile and turn my head to the front.I see Lorcan standing on the podium surrounded by our pack members and family. The King stands in front of Lorcan, ready to officiate the ceremony.Lorcan smiles right at me, eyes nowhere but on me, and I smile in return. He is indeed wearing a suit of white, with this dark hair slicked back but loose around his broad shoulders.
“Gianna?” I force my eyes away from Lorcan to look at Orrin. “Do you have something you’d like to say?”I nod my head and take a deep breath in through my nose and out through my mouth.I haven’t prepared anything because I didn’t have time. After Harper let slip what was happening here today, I thought about telling Lorcan how I felt. But then, Lorcan knows how I feel.However, there is so much Lorcan doesn’t know. So many things he should know about how happy he makes me.I never thought for one moment when Lorcan dragged me back to Sliver Paw that I’d be standing here today. Not once did it cross my mind in the weeks since that he’d want to marry me.Did I envision Lorcan as my husband?No.
“Lorcan, can you stop pacing? You’re making me dizzy.”I growl at Gianna’s father.My mate was shot; she’s in surgery; what the fuck does he expect me to do other than pace?The son of a bitch has to know how this feels right now. Gianna is his daughter!She was my wife mere minutes before someone shot her in the back. Josh immediately caught the guy, and I should be in the dungeon right now interrogating the prick. But I can’t bear to do anything until I know if Gianna is going to make it.I can still feel her in my arms. I can even see the wide-eyed look of fear Gianna gave me when she slumped forward. I’m still covered in the blood, she coughed up, and I can still hear myself begging her not to leave me.
“What in Selene’s name is going on here?”“My Alpha,” Emily bows her head in respect, something I never thought I’d see from Emily.Sure, she bows her head in my presence, but because she has to, not because she wants to. It surprised me that Emily spoke to me with such respect.“Bella and I,” She stops and swallows before looking at Bella.“This witch,” Sofia snaps. “Has bewitched my daughter and made her believe that they are mates.”“We are mates, Mother. Why can’t you accept that?”Emily and Bella is not something I saw coming. I actually thought that Bella would hate Emily on sight after finding out how Emily is with Gianna. It shows what I know.
“My Alpha?” Emily looks at me while sniffing. “You know me better than anyone here. You know when I’m lying and when I’m not. Gianna gave us her blessing,”I hold my hand up to stop Sofia from speaking. I won’t have her interrupting as though she has the right!“Harper was there. I know this is neither the time nor the place for this. But I am begging you, please speak with Harper, and she’ll tell you the truth of what was said.”I sigh.Emily is right; this is neither the time nor the place. However, I have to admit that it’s taking my mind off the time. Waiting for news of my wife is driving me nuts.Harper is with Josh and my family right now, she’s incredibly close to Gianna, and this has hit her hard.
“Are you okay, babe?”Bella doesn’t spare me a glance; she simply continues to stare into space.Bella hasn’t said a word since Lorcan banished her parents from pack lands. It was harsh, but I understood why he did it.Sofia is a nightmare and then some. She doesn’t want her daughter having a female mate, and she also thinks Gianna’s baby is cursed, thanks to Lorcan.Antonio isn’t so bad, but, of course, he’d take his mate’s side. That is just the way of things; the mate bond is strong, no matter who you are.They’re lucky to be alive, and they have Gianna to thank for that. I may have hated her since she arrived here, but she’s been good for Lorcan, and I can admit that.I wasn’t expecting my mate
Once I’m done taking care of Bella in the shower, eating her pussy until she’s screaming my name, she takes me with her mouth.I did say no, but she wouldn’t hear of it, and Bella didn’t stop sucking on my clit until I was a puddle at her feet.I then washed her hair and body and my own before drying her off. Bella watched me with a slight smile on her face as I tucked her up in bed, naked as the day she was born. Bella told me last night that she always sleeps naked.Fine with me.“I love you, Emily, more than anything in this world.”I lean in and kiss Bella softly. “I love you, too, Bella. No one will ever come close to you because you are everything.”“You’re my everything,” She mumbles, her sleepy ey
“You have three seconds to tell me what I want to know,”“Just kill me already. You’re going to anyway.”I roll my eyes.Every motherfucker says the same damn thing!None are original.I walk over to my tool bench and grab the tooth extractor. Right now, pain is my pleasure, and this prick has received plenty of it.I look at my father as he stands in between Luther and Leander. Bastian and Kale are here also. Kale didn’t need to be here, but Josh called him to the cellars. Not only to bring adrenaline injections but because Kale admitted that he wanted to watch the light leave the eyes of the bastard who almost killed his best friend.Kale had no right to befriend Gianna, but I know Kale means a lot to