THIRTY-FOUR: "The Wedding Will Be Postponed"

The royal wedding was temporarily put on hold, and the parties involved—The immediate Royal Family, The Clermont Family, Juniper, and her son—were escorted to the private and relatively quiet space of the vestry to discuss the situation, away from the main cathedral area and the public eye.

Even as they sat around the huge wooden table, Cedric could neither believe his ears nor his eyes.

He was beyond flummoxed!

After the last time he had seen Juniper, she'd disappeared, dropped from the face of the Earth. No one knew where she'd gone, not even the Clermonts.

A lot of assumptions had gone through his mind the past few years— Perhaps, she'd taken his warning and disappeared from his life or worst. . . she'd died somewhere and no one knew about it.

But now here she was, after all these years, with a child. . . claiming he was his.

How was that even possible?

Last he checked, the child she was carrying, belonged to her late sister, Vivienne, and her fi