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"You always were a firecracker."
I ignored Knight, who was still hovering over her protectively.
"Tell me," I gripped her hands tight. "Are they forcing you to marry Coulter's brother?" I gave Knight a significant look. "Or are you really in love with someone else?"
"Oh my god, no," Rose shook her head, "Knight is just protective, that's all." Her face turned serious, "He helped me when I had no one else."
"You always had Bourbon," He flopped to the floor by our side, apparently inviting himself into our conversation.
"Yeah, but Bourbon wasn't communicating very well back then was he?"
Knight smirked, pulling out a joint and pressing it to his lips.
"Knight!" Rose gasped. “You can't smoke that in here!"
He eyed her lazily, pulling out his lighter but, at the serious look she gave him, he sighed, and stood up.
She pointed towards the back door where I'd entered. "Not even in the building. I don't want you ruining the other dresses."
He shrugged, but began to walk off. “Fine, but if anything happens to you while I'm smoking, Bourbon will take my nuts."
"I'll take your nuts if anything happens," Dante growled from the doorway.
Unlike Knight, he was staying out of ear shot, having the sense to give us our privacy.
Rose waited until Knight had disappeared and Dante was facing away from us to speak. "You're going to be at the wedding right?"
"I think so, but I’m not sure. They haven't told me anything."
"Of course not," she grunted, shaking her head in disappointment. "Heaven forbid men learn how to communicate. I've told Nero that I'm not showing up to the wedding if you can't be there--"
I leaned back, clutching her arms to whisper fiercely, "Rose, if they're forcing you to do this, I swear, I'll find a way to get you out of this. I will burn down the whole chapel if I have to."
She burst out laughing. "I would like to see that. Father Norris would probably call it an act of God."
"I'll do it," I promised fiercely.
She shook her head. "I actually want to marry him."
I narrowed my eyes skeptically. "Are you sure? You don't have to lie to me, Rose."
"No," her eyes were clear, "I swear to you, Aster. I love him. I really do." There was a happiness to her gaze that I'd never seen before.
Rose had always been amazing, but every time I'd ever seen her, she'd had this sadness about her. I assumed it was her asshole adoptive father.
But now, she had a calm assurance about her. A brightness. Honestly, she was radiant.
It was like she was glowing.
I inhaled a sharp breath. "Are you pregnant, Rose?"
Her eyes widened. “How did you know?"
I shook my head. "I didn't, except you…” I raised a shoulder, "I don't know, you just look like it. You really look like you're a glowing bubble.”
“Well," she bit down on her lower lip, "despite everything that's happened, I really am happy. I really do love Bourbon, and we're going to start a family together." Her cheeks were burning with a soft pinkish tone and her eyes were gleaming. She really was truly luminous.
She wasn't lying.
