Sold as the Alpha King’s Breeder

Chapter 155: Bonus Story - An Unofficial Royal Wedding

*Ciana*

In the early afternoon on the day before my wedding, I stood on a fitting platform while Brook worked on the final fitting for my dress and Sherry worked on finding the right makeup palette that would match the occasion.

I said “occasion" because it was not just my wedding anymore. The Public Relation department had turned it into this ordeal of a national celebration and public event as the first step to establish a transparent and people-friendly image of the royal court.

Floor length mirrors surrounded me on three sides while my friends worked to turn me into a beautiful princess bride.

The dress I was stuck in was far more lavish than I ever imagined. Apparently, because I was in my third trimester, the seamstress thought that weighing me down with excessive layers of fabric would make me more comfortable.

It was a hefty ball gown with several layers of taffeta and tulle making up the wide spread hoop-skirt.

The bodice was encrusted with jewel—studded lace. It snugged around my pregnant belly and fitted around my breasts, making them pop out in ways I wasn't used to.

"You look absolutely stunning, Ciana,“ Sherry said, pulling me from my thoughts.

'The seamstress and her four helpers spent more than two weeks non stop making this dress for you. She did really well, people probably won't even notice that you’re pregnant," Brook added.

'And with your natural beauty it just makes this dress so much more outstanding," Sherry added.

She started working on my hair, pinning it up in a half-up, half-down do.

'It is so easy to get a makeup color palette that matches your natural skin tones and eyes and hair color," she said.

She peeked over my shoulder and I met her eyes in the mirror. I smiled and nodded politely.

'It isn't weird that I’m in a traditional, pure white wedding dress, and also nearly seven months pregnant?" I asked, putting my hands on my belly.

Sherry and Brook laughed and kept working.

I looked at my reflection in all three of the mirrors. The dress was gorgeous from every angle, except for the fact that it just didn't feel right on me.

Suddenly, I had a flashback to when I'd tried on dresses in the Moonlit Crystal for my fake wedding to Warren.

Theo and Brook had both been there. Brook had been so full of praise for the dresses I wore, but Theo...

He’d said all kinds of things.

'... with a skirt like that, you could be dropped out of an airplane at ten thousand feet and sail gently to the ground.’

His words echoed in my head and I ran my hands along the hefty, wide skirt I was currently wearing. This skirt was so similar to that one. Would Theo think the same thing this time?

1 hope it doesn't snow, though. In a dress like that, well never find you.'

Another comment about the dress color stuck in my mind. I frowned as I examined the color of this dress. It was the purest white I'd ever seen, just like freshly fallen snow.

I groaned a little and shook my head. Was there such a thing as the flawless wedding dress?

Then there was the last comment Theo had made.

'... I just think maybe you should try a dress on in the right size. That one clearly doesn't fit. You’re spilling out all over the top of it.'

Glancing down at myself, I saw how my third-trimester-pregnant breasts popped out of the fitted cups. It was made to fit me perfectly, and according to Brook and Sherry, it was. However, to me, it still felt, and looked, like I could pop out of my dress at any moment.

The more I looked at myself, the more I felt like I wasn't wearing a dress. I felt like I was shoved into a teeny, tiny, pale, parachute!

I groaned under my breath.

my mind and now I couldn't stop comparing my dress to those

to the next as I tried to stop seeing the dress as something horrible,

covered my face with my hands and

don't like how I look in this," I muttered, shaking

you talking about?" Sherry asked. "Ciana, you look absolutely gorgeous." “Do

Ciana. You're getting married and the entire kingdom is going to be there. That is something to get jittery about,” Brook

“Yeah...”

She was right.

the time, I thought we'd have the chance to talk about what kind of

the wedding tomorrow. What I thought should have just been friends and family turned into a nationwide

a lavish, massive wedding ceremony. Whenever I thought about my wedding, I thought about it being small and intimate. A private

skin shivered at the

in

I tripped over the dress and planted my face

I forgot

at me and if I messed up or embarrassed myself, it would be in front of the entire

cutting into

I asked frantically, my

going to be fine at the wedding because it is your day. Just

you're pregnant. It's normal to feel emotional and vulnerable during pregnancy, but

breaths and closed my eyes. Well,

ceremony three times. You've got this, and it is all going to go well,“ she

front of like ten people. There are going to be thousands there tomorrow!" I cried, overwhelmed all

you'll still be fine,“

was done with her adjustments, she helped me out of the dress. Sherry did some last minute touch ups on the makeup after the dress was

you changed into your own clothes,"

was a simple yet elegant A-line, white

today. ” 'Did you forget? King Theo arranged a rehearsal dinner tonight for close friends and family only. Alpha and Luna Black will be there along with Lady Nita. This is the dress His Majesty ordered for the dinner, do you

found myself falling in love with

light and flowy. In the back, it hung to my ankles but was a little shorter in the front, hanging to my shins. The dress had a high, empire waist,

and came all the way up to

it showed off my adorable belly and was not

a lot. Honestly, if it was up to me, I'd choose to wear this at my wedding,' I admitted softly, running my hands down the light, flowing

I saw how Sherry and Brook smiled and exchanged a knowing

to catch the car that is going to take us

'Greg is waiting.

car. I noticed that Brook and Sherry had also changed into nicer

was this dinner supposed to

top of a hill and stopped to let us out. I recognized

thudded in my chest as I looked at the hilltop and the

except for two old trees that stood side by side. Between the trees an archway made of sticks had been

a circle of flower petals. Wildflowers grew

was warm and beautiful. The hill overlooked the palace and in the

before, I'd never imagined that after some decoration, it could be

white, satin carpet laid out as an aisle for me to walk around and just a few chairs where guests would sit. By the number

the archway in a midnight blue dress

was with her too, all dressed up in a tuxedo. I knew he was

side of the aisle. On the other, Theo's pets

Tears pricked my eyes.

dinner, it

for me after aII—a small and intimate outdoor ceremony

ever ask for and the