I want to throw my arms around him, and I know he feels it. He’s watching me, smiling.
The music changes and all eyes move once again to the door.
Janet appears like a vision. Her hair is swept up and away from her face, pinned back with a wreath of roses. Her dress is simple, white lace, body skimming, with a short train. While everyone’s eyes are on her, her gaze is on one.
Culebra meets her at the bottom of the porch steps. They embrace before turning to the officiant, a young human priest. The ceremony is short, both exchanging vows they wrote. Adelita takes her place, standing between them, arms interlinked. The priest blesses them and declares them a family.
I’ve never seen a more beautiful ceremony.
I look up at Frey.
Except for the one that united us.
About the Author
Jeanne Stein is the award winning, national bestselling author of the Urban Fantasy series, The Anna Strong Vampire Chronicles and the Fallen Siren Series written as S. J. Harper. She has thirteen full length books to her credit, several novellas, and numerous short stories, including "The Wolf’s Paw", reprinted in Hex Publishers' 2015 anthology, Nightmares Unhinged.
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