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Sorry, I can’t talk now, Eeds. I’m at a prelim pack meeting. The ceremony happens tonight though. Wish me luck xoxo
Shit. Shit!
Something major must have happened for Jaxson to change his mind. Not that I knew why he didn’t want to be a part of his pack before.
I shook off the strangeness of that turn of events, and went upstairs to finally soak Ms. Puss.
The moment my toes hit the steamy water, my body melted. I relaxed, letting the warmth pull away any soreness, until I dozed.
When I woke in lukewarm water, I relocated my dozing to the bed.
I’d had a long night, I reasoned. And I needed to be fresh for the incursion. That’s what I told myself, at least.
No one wants to admit they were sleeping to avoid thinking about the life-altering even looming several hours away.
“Eden! Eden!”
Someone was shaking the bed.
Nope, me. They were shaking me.
I cracked an eye. “Whadizit?”
“Eden! Get up! It’s eleven-thirty. You’ve got to get ready for the—”
I shot out of bed to find a harried Sunny hovering over me.
“Why didn’t you set an alarm?” she scolded.
“Because I didn’t expect to sleep so long.”
Sunny looked at me like I’d grown a dick for a head. “Exhaustion is the main side effect of a new mate bond. The king’s been napping on and off all day.”
“Well, if someone bothered to tell me things like that, maybe I would have known!” I ran to the bathroom to brush my teeth and wash my face.
“We don’t always know exactly what to tell you, Eden. So much of it is just known and part of our culture, it’s hard for us to think about it from the perspective of someone who wasn’t raised with it.”
Yeah, that made sense.
I went into the bathroom looking like a five, but angry at a ten, and came out looking like a ten and feeling…well, I was still ten mad that I had to hurry but I wasn’t yelling at Sunny anymore.
Sunny helped me put my hair up after I got myself into the indigo dress. “You look amazing,” she said when I’d stepped into the nude heels.
“Thank you,” I said and did the finger motion for her to twirl. Sunny spun in a small circle, golden dress fanning out around her to show off her thin, strappy heels. “So do you. If you weren’t dead set against the vamp life, I’d say you might have a shot at finding your mate tonight. That’s how good you look.”
“Aw, thanks, Eden.”
And then it was time to go down.
“Remember,” she said as we traversed the great room stairs arm in arm. “You’ll be one of the first to enter, right after the king. You’ll be announced as his mate and you’ll just have to walk down the stairs and join King Julian’s side. Do not look at Titus. Not because it’s against the rules, but because I don’t want you getting worked up, okay?”
“Okay.”
“I’ll be one of that last to enter. It’s likely the event will have moved on to dancing by the time I come down the stairs, so don’t look for me.”
“Got it.”
“Don’t be nervous. Just be your badass self, okay?”
