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. I feel

trusts you,” Elizabeth leaned forward and placed a hand

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do you

he would admit you scared him. I have known him a long time and you are…the only one who he bends for,” She intently used each word as if

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

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

an eyelet in on the top of the

to do all of this so I didn’t feel so

all together. This part I had to do on my own. This was my dress to be bound

think

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

know him as I should to bare myself to him. Giving yourself at that level can

to make it look as good as possible. That was no bother.

whole morning I would spend getting ready having my hair done, my face cleaned, and my legs

most of this was to prepare me to be with him.

is private and no one

came back. This time though all of the women of the pack came along. I would show them the dress and they would give approval.

have done so well,” Amaria ran her fingers through my hair as she commended me.

mom,” I replied. It was odd calling a woman who didn’t birth me mom

The one the pack had on Friday, then the one

first feast, then a sourdough, and finally the brend I made, a rosemary bread that would be

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for my day. Most of the women of the pack had to leave to finish the

all day for it. That is

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

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

finish the bread,” I nodded to them and we

and kneaded the bread and after a while, we had finished

on,” I giddily ran upstairs with

and quickly put it on

flowed. It had a skirt that went down just below my knees, and it laced up in the

and a t–shirt. The fabric they made here could be gauzy or it could be as thick as cotton. I found that I loved both feelings as the more you

after grabbing ribs and potatoes.

kind of food

Amária teased me as I