Rejected, And Became A Heiress

Chapter 36

My breath hitches at a flash of bright red. Is it her?!

I look again and realize it was just a noble she-wolf's red scarf. My shoulders slump the slightest bit.

Not Cara.

"It's time, sir. We need you at the altar."

Still no sign of her.

It's too on late.

Lilia's POV

This is the moment I've been dreaming about for my entire life. I'm going to become Luna. I'm going to lead the most powerful pack in the world!

Well, I guess Alaric will be there too, but that's a minor detail.

Victory is so close I can almost taste it. The throne is almost mine.

Now, if only I wasn't surrounded by idiots. No one can do anything right today, apparently.

Alaric just looked really terrible. But I'm about to be his wife; how dare he treat me like this?

Thank goodness he'll have me to mold him. I'll turn him into the perfect then, obedient Alpha King, or a husband. He'll do everything I ask, and the pack will be under my full control. "Any sign of Cara Wilson?" I ask my handmaiden for the tenth time this morning.

"No ma'am. No one has seen her all day," my servant replies.

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"Marvelous!" I can't contain my gleeful smile.

At least one of my plans must have worked, then. I had several plots against her going at the same time. One can never be too careful.

George is supposed to sabotage Cara's car then "accidentally" cause a wreck. Just in case she somehow turned up at the wedding anyway, my brothers were assigned to watch the door and intercept her. I found a nice broom closet she could be shoved into until the wedding was finished.

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humored Alaric by pretending to give a shit about that stupid free kitchen he's setting up. I've paid my dues, and now it's time to

snatch the bridal yeil out of my handmaiden's hands and place it atop my own

time, ma'am." The

at her, drunk with the idea of how much power I'm about to

with approval and admiration. They would kill to take my place;

beautiful daughter of the Arbun family! She's elegant and

perfectly that wedding gown

to her must be the best

me! Who wouldn't want to be me right

this. I've earned

born to enjoy

the altar, I picture the blue gemstones I'm going to have put on my new Luna crown. The smile I give Alaric might be the most genuine one he's seen from me yet. The officiant blathers on with the ceremony, talking about silly things like love

Whatever.

are

And I'm no sucker.

to be

part and give Alaric the most charming, most endearing, sweetest look I can possibly deliver. I bat my beautifully long and thick eyelashes at

'I do' and get this over with! I

But he doesn't.

He's not saying anything.

me the

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the fuck

Alaric's POV

"A-HEM!"

Lilia clear her throat in a comically annoyed

from my distracted thoughts. I look at

is my and

and I are tucked in together under a beautiful canopy of red roses, pink

miniature wooden and gold carvings. There's wolves and the moon, and that forest. They tell the story of our pack, of our people. I can't help but remark that Cara's really outdone herself this time. I thought the proposal setting she made was wonderful, but this... This is... This is a wedding fit

to the officiant, trying to look contrite, "Apologies

C

falls. "Alaric!

Lilia and

C

woven into her hair, into her dark red braid.

look, would make any man or wolf stop in his tracks. Blood