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.

“It would be easier if there wasn’t any space between us if I knew him like no one else but he gave me the trust I needed. I feel

and placed a hand on my

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you know?”

him. I have known him a long

trusts his people. This makes you his,” Amaria finished to

of every day. I would know his thoughts and fears. He would know my desire for him and my hesitancy to give in to it. His mind would be alight with everything I had kept inside and mine would

to put an eyelet in on the top of the dress

I had known how to do all of this

on my own. This was my

I don’t think either of us is ready for that

me to sew and I hummed to myself old songs from my childhood

wife, but I did not know him as I should to bare myself to him. Giving yourself at that level can make someone feel like

gown together over the next two 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 all night.

when the sun goes down that whole morning I would spend getting ready having my hair done, my face

this was to prepare me to be with him. I would

is private and no one

came back. This time though all of the women of the pack came along. I would show them

done so well,” Amaria ran her fingers through

mom,” I replied. It was odd calling 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 on Saturday,

more and more decadent. Normal bread for the first feast, then

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day. Most of the women of the pack had

are supposed to fast all day for it. That is also why the second feast is smaller and more

dress is going to be amazing, and the white dress for the second

the second feast on Saturday night everyone would dress in white for the moon. I was going to wear a white lace dress that Elizabeth

the bread,” I nodded to them and we

the bread and after a while, we had finished and the bread was left to rise before it was

ran upstairs

quickly put it on so we made it to

it laced up in the back. I think I’ll put my hair up that night, my mom will be here to help

found that I

sat down after grabbing

of food finally!

teased me as I ferociously dig into the meat.