Stronger by Ang Chris

Chapter 30

Today I had to make my gown and start preparing food. Everything was to be made from scratch. We had a lot to do.

Grayson had spent the past couple of days organizing the guest list as I didn’t know any of his allies.

It was not easy or dreamy as it had appeared but it was all happening so quickly. We were prepping and none of the actual celebration had started yet.

On Friday I was going to be cleansed. I had to bathe in moon pool, and then spend the day having oils rubbed into my skin and runes scribed on my back.

Here in the Northern Ecl*pse pack, it was custom for the bride to get a tattoo before the wedding. I would have the symbol of the pack inscribed on my sternum. Grayson had one too but he got it when he became Alpha.

It was a moon in front of a pine and paw marks below it. I wasn’t too excited about that but it was a duty of mine.

Grayson would spend the same day in solitude. He would train, meditate, and pray. He wasn’t allowed to look or talk to

anyone.

That night I would go to the forests to find him and our wolves would be with each other.

Right now though I was with Amaria and Elizabeth making my dress.

It was a simple gown to humble me before my mate. It was strapless with two inches at the top of my back and flowed

from there.

“The color is perfect my dear,” Amaria smiled at me.

I began cutting down the fabric to the design Elizabeth had drawn out for me. Two simple rectangle like bits.

I was thankful that binding dresses were not supposed to be extravagant. The only tricky part here was the train that flowed from behind me. I was born of alpha blood so I had a long train. It was to stretch six feet behind me.

“Okay so now it’s basically a six–foot–long U,” Elizabeth explained, drawing out the back of the dress.

It was cut again and we marked for the hem. I know it’s morning and tedious when it’s not your gown but when it is every stitch, cut, hem, mark, they all electrify you.

The three of us began hemming the gown and talking to one another. It had to be hand sewn so my hard work went.

into it.

“Are you nervous?” Amaria looked over to me.

any space between us if I knew him like no one else but he gave me the trust I needed.

you,” Elizabeth leaned forward and placed

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you

long time and you are…the only one who he bends

Amaria finished to ease my many many thought.

him and my hesitancy to give in to it. His mind would be alight with everything I

top of the

known how to do all of this so I didn’t

do on my own. This was my dress to be bound to Grayson in. This was for me to give to him.

we would…but I don’t think either of us is ready for that level of

to myself old songs from my childhood that my mother hummer when she

thing I was not embarrassed by or ashamed of was wanting to wait to sleep with him. I would be his wife, but I did not know him as I should to bare myself to him. Giving yourself at that level can make someone feel

hours. I had to use an invisible stitch to make it look as good as possible. That was no bother. Elizabeth had made me a strand for the inches at the back to hold me up

morning I would spend getting ready having my hair

be with him. I would take the pampering and

and no one

women of the pack came along. I

have done so well,” Amaria ran her fingers

a woman who didn’t birth me mom but Amaria deserved it. She had been there for me through

began making food today we were making the bread for the feasts. The one the pack had on Friday, then the one where I served everyone

the first feast, then a sourdough, and finally

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of the women of the pack had to leave to finish the day’s

all day for it. That is also why the second feast is smaller and more intimate,” Charlotte exclaimed to

amazing, and the white dress for the second feast I have to see that

Saturday night everyone would dress in white for the moon. I was going to wear a white lace dress that Elizabeth and Amaria had given me as a gift earlier in

bread,” I nodded to them and

while, we had finished and the bread was left to

giddily ran upstairs with

closet and quickly put it on so

knees, and it laced up in

cotton. I found that I loved both feelings as the more you wore

after grabbing ribs and potatoes.

kind of

starved you!” Amária teased me