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“Eden, please. I can do this. Let me.”

The shake of his head ticks me off. “No, baby. I just can’t do that.”

The lock clicks, and he almost jumps out when I stop him. “Eden,” I say, and he turns. “I asked you to let me.”

Although the spell Galchobar put on us has our telepathy blocked, he can read my eyes. They’re saying to let me do what I had planned,  or I’m going to be pissed, and who wants a pissed off bride on their wedding night?

He pauses and considers what I’ve asked. “Alyssa, this is very dangerous.”

“I’m supposed to do this. I can feel it. Please allow me to,” I say.

Eden holds the door open just enough for me to slip through it and says, “May Our Creator be with you.”

I place a kiss on his cheek as I move past him, hopping out of the cage and running back towards the opening I came out of. The lion’s roar lets me know he sees me.

His paws thunder behind me and his roar sends heat to my back. I dart into the opening and fall back against the wall as the lion runs past me, then I fly back out the opening.

Kyle and Eden are running to the gate as I see another lion released at the far end of the arena. It takes off after them.

I run at that lion as I hear the roar of the other lion, which has turned around and found me again. With that one behind me, I run straight for the other and jump over its back as the lion who follows me crashes into him.

Seems lions don’t take kindly to being run into!

They fight each other while I double up my speed and run for the gate. Eden holds it open as Kyle yells, “They’ve stopped fighting each other and now they’re after you. Run! Hurry!”

A paw swipes at me, catching the material of my dress as it flies behind me. I hear it rip and pray my whole backside isn’t exposed. Through the gate I run, right into Kyle’s waiting arms as Eden locks the gate.

The tug on my dress from Eden examining just how close one of the lions got to me turns my attention from the tight hug Kyle has me in. “I’m okay,” I say as I pull away from Kyle and turn to Eden. “Are my panties showing?”

Kyle answers, as I’ve turned my back end towards him, “A little. Why’d you put on red panties with a white dress?”

At that moment, I realize the spectators are all cheering and applauding.

How crazy is that? I never noticed them until it was all over.

Galchobar’s booming voice comes from somewhere, but again, I don’t see him. “She has succeeded.”

Eden points up and Kyle and I join him in looking in that direction. Galchobar floats down to us, landing gently on the rocky floor in front of us. Kyle leans over. “I’m not this guy’s biggest fan,” he says, drawing the old man’s attention.

“Nor am I yours,” Galchobar says. “Yet your connection to our very special creature means we must co-exist.”

“What does that mean?” Kyle asks.

A flash of light fills my eyes, leaving me blind. My body falls, but many hands catch me.

What’s happening to me?

CHAPTER 35

KYLE

I’ve been kidnapped and placed in a clear box!

Another cage, and the second time I’ve been abducted on the same night. Ally and her new husband have told me this is not part of their medieval wedding, but what the hell else could it be?

And where in the hell is Laura?

After that completely fucked up wedding, Laura and I went up to the patio.