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.

Theo's fault! He'd put those thoughts and comments in my mind and now I couldn't

from one mirror to the next as I tried to stop seeing the dress as something

my face with my

I look in this," I muttered,

gorgeous." “Do I?"

is going to be there. That is something to get jittery

“Yeah...”

She was right.

the time, I thought we'd have the chance to talk

people were traveling to the capitol to attend the wedding tomorrow. What I thought should have

lavish, massive wedding ceremony. Whenever I thought about my wedding, I thought about it

skin shivered at the mere

my ankle in the heels

tripped over the dress

I forgot

literally be thousands of people staring at me and if I messed up or embarrassed myself, it would be in front of the entire kingdom. It would

Brook said, cutting into my

asked frantically,

wedding because it

you're unsettled because you're pregnant. It's normal to feel emotional and vulnerable during pregnancy, but that does impact your usual confidence. Just breathe through it," Brook

closed my eyes. Well, I breathed as deeply as

got this, and it is all going to go well,“ she

front of like ten people. There are going to be thousands there tomorrow!"

be

of the dress. Sherry did some last minute touch ups on the makeup after the

on, let's get you changed into your own clothes," Brook

a simple yet elegant A-line,

tonight for close friends and family only. Alpha and Luna Black will be there

on, I found

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, mostly concealing my pregnant belly

hid my cleavage and came all the way up to the base of my neck. The dress was sleeveless and the lace

way it showed off my adorable

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 skirt. "Lavish clothes just seem so... over the

the mirror, I saw how Sherry and Brook smiled and exchanged a

got to catch the car that is going to take

'Greg is waiting.

in the car. I noticed that Brook and Sherry had also changed into nicer dresses. All three of us

fancy was this

car pulled up on top of a hill and stopped to let us out. I recognized this place. I'd been here recently as it was

in my chest as I looked at the hilltop

old trees that stood side by side. Between the trees

below the archway was a circle of flower petals. Wildflowers

of clouds and it was warm and beautiful. The hill overlooked the palace and in the distance there

here before, I'd never imagined that after some

for me to walk around and just a few chairs where guests would sit. By the number of chairs, there were only a few

was standing under the archway in a midnight blue dress that had sparkles that made her look like the night

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

noticed that all the chairs were on one side of the aisle. On the other,

Tears pricked my eyes.

dinner, it was a

had planned my dream wedding for me after aII—a small and

could ever ask for