Helooked nervous and cleared his throat. “I wanted to ask you something.”
Uh-oh.He wasn’t going to try to change my mind about marrying Kai, was he? I knew itwas asking for trouble from the vampires, but I thought he understood that wedeserved our happiness. I thought he agreed that no one else should dictate ourlife.
“Iknow your father wasn’t a nice man. You don’t seem to have been treatedproperly from any man in your life, aside from my son.”
Okay… Where was this going?
Hewiped his hands on his shirt. “Aurora, may I escort you down the aisle and giveyou away to marry my son?”
Oh.Then all my emotions broke loose. His words, his voice, it was too much. Icried and laughed at the same time. “What did I do to deserve to marry intothis family?” I asked him.
Heopened his arms for a hug and I could see that his eyes looked misty as well. Iembraced him. He cleared his throat and stood taller.
Hepulled back and looked into my eyes. “What did we do to deserve you?”
Icould hear footsteps running down the hall. The door burst open; it was Devon.“Plan B, sir! They brought the helicopters.”
Rajnodded and held tightly to my hand, whisking me down the hallway and into ourgarage. He jumped into Kai’s Audi as Diya, Emma, and Maya burst through the doorbehind us.
“What’sgoing on? What’s plan B?” I screamed. Kai always had his plans and I knewnothing about them! I jumped into the passenger seat trying not to rip my Sari.The girls piled into the back.
Rajhit the garage clicker and the door began to open. “Kai didn’t want you toworry. We have a second wedding location set up in the event that thishappened.”
“What!”Emma screamed from the back seat. “I’ve been decorating this one all day.”
Ireached back and squeezed her hand. “I’ll see it later, Em. I’m sure it’sbeautiful.”
NowI was pissed. How dare they try to ruin my wedding! To get involved in mypersonal life. Fur began breaking out onto my arms. Raj took a side glance atme. “You have a right to be angry. Hold on.” He put the car in reverse and flewout of the garage spinning the wheels.
Hesped down our private drive and onto the pavement, making a left onto the mainroad, then eased over into the left lane. White snowflakes began to fall fromthe sky. I smiled.
“Papa,just a reminder, in America they drive on the right side of the road,” Diyatold him.
“Oh,right.” He swerved over and Emma screamed. I suppressed a giggle. I could hearhelicopter blades in the distance flying toward our house.
“Tristanand Izzy have decided to renew their vows. RAIDOS is in for a surprise whenthey don’t find you at the altar,” Raj said with a grin.
Iopened my mouth in shock. “That’s genius!”
Rajnodded. “I thought of it.”
“Well,at least someone will enjoy my decorations,” Emma said bitterly.
Heslowed the car down. There was some type of check point up ahead.
“It’sour pack, dear,” Maya told me.
Aswe neared, there was another stopped car trying to come up the mountain. Rajrolled down the window and I could hear one of the other wolves asking thewoman in the stopped car something.
“Militaryexercise up ahead, ma’am. I need to see your ID with address to prove you livein the area.”
Rajspoke to one of his guys. “Don’t let anyone come down this road for the nexthour. Do whatever you have to,” he commanded.
Theman nodded. “Yes, sir.”
Rajtook a hard right and led us up a small winding road. I had never been to thispart of the mountain. We were still on the mountain, but not exactly in the areawhere the pack lived and roamed freely. There were a lot of cute littlemountain cabins and cottages, mostly inhabited by humans.
“Whereare we going?” I pondered aloud.
