Page 304 of One Winter Knight
“Oh, hello, Saoirse. I didn’t realize you would be getting readytogether.” Dad entered, followed by Daddy. The two of them came in wearing tuxes, flowers pinned to their lapels.
“Why wouldn’t we?” She gave him a pointed look.
He put his hands up in surrender. “Your pack application has been approved. You're getting married today. You don’t need to threaten to fight me anymore. She’s yours.”
“I want to see them fight,” Timmy whispered to Dom.
My dads had argued with me a bit when we said we wanted a small wedding in a castle. But when I offered that they could throw me a party in Boston in a few weeks and invite whoever they wanted, they relented.
“We brought something for you, Sweetie,” Daddy said.
“Really? Thank you.” My heart fluttered. Though I was wearing my mother’s wedding jewelry already.
“We found her veil. I know you said you weren’t going to wear one, but in case you do…” Daddy opened a box. Inside was a short, layered, gold net veil on a little comb. It was covered in gold pearls and little sparkles.
“The only reason why I didn’t want to wear one is because we couldn’t locate it. I can’t believe you found it.” I put my hand in my heart.
“May I?” Dad asked.
“Of course.” I turned around, my back to him, as he placed a little comb in my hair. By Dom’s face, I could tell that she would be fixing it as soon as he left.
“You look beautiful,” Daddy said.
“I think she would be quite proud of you for sticking to your beliefs and finding a pack of your own. We really appreciate how much work you put into bringing your pack to this point.” Dad kissed me on the cheek.
My heart swelled. “You’re proud of me? That means everything.”
That’s all I ever really wanted to hear.
“We’re always proud of you, but we are especially proud of how far you’ve come in the past six months,” Daddy replied.
“The fact that you have also managed to still keep all your benchmarks and get your app to testing is admirable,” Dad added.
It gave me something to do when Hale was studying and Carlos was practicing. I also felt useful, like I was doing meaningful work. Not that my pack didn’t appreciate all my redecorating. They did. Our place was just that… ours. Even my advocate had complimented me when she’d done all my home visits, and you know she’d seenallthe nice places.
“I love that app,” Dom said. Lots of my friends were testing my app, but we had other testers as well.
“We’re proud of you, too,” Daddy added to Saoirse.
“Thank you, Eoin,” she replied with a nod, and then her eyes flickered to Finn as if to say,aren’t you proud of me?
“You’ve done a very good job this past six months. I hope that Dusty does as good of a job being head alpha,” Finn replied.
I’d actually wanted Saoirse to stay head alpha, since legally, the head alpha could be any designation. But in the end, she wanted Dusty to have it. It also made sense.
“Thank you, Finn–and he will. Also, I appreciate the thoughtful gift.” Saoirse looked at her phone. “Are we ready? The coordinator wants to know.”
“We are,” I replied, with one more glance in the mirror.
“We’ll see you out there. You look so beautiful.” Dad gave me another kiss on the cheek and Daddy kissed the other.
“That turned out cute.” Timmy had out his phone. “Don’t worry I’ll send it to you.”
“I’d like that, thanks,” I replied, making sure I had everything.
“Please tell me Finn gave you weapons as a gift.” Dom grinned at Saoirse as she fixed my hair and veil.
“Oh, he did,” Saoirse stated.
