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After a couple hours had passed, he slithered out and propped himself up, his eyes level with mine.You can’t marry her.
I ignored him.
Not unless you tell her.
I stared into the tree line, the sunlight casting short shadows because it was midday.
Marriage is sssacred.
“Fang.” I regarded him head on. “Do you want me to be mortal?”
He stared.
“Because that’s what will happen. My life will be over in the blink of an eye, and you’ll go on for lifetimes without me. Yes, I’ll have children, but their lives will be over just as quick as mine. You’ll know my future descendants, all of them, but you’ll never be able to see me again. Is that what you want?”
Fang broke eye contact and turned his head slightly.
“That’s what I thought.”
But you could sssay no.
“Then she would leave me. I’d rather die than lose her, so I would have no other choice than to live the life I don’t want.”
You don’t know that.
“Yes…I do.”
13
LARISA
I looked at myself in the mirror, seeing the satin gown fit me like a second skin. It was simple, with no texture at all, but that was exactly what I wanted. The material was high-quality, so it had a shine when I turned toward the light. It bunched in the front, the material loose like rose petals about to fall.
Cobra gave a low whistle as he looked me up and down. “Damn, that is one hell of a dress.”
“A black wedding dress,” Viper said with his arms crossed over his chest. “He’ll like it.”
“Shit, he’ll love it.” Cobra moved to check me out from a different angle. “Wear your hair down. You know, with those big spiral things. He’ll like that.”
“Curls?” I asked.
“Yes.” He snapped his fingers. “Clara does that with her hair sometimes. Very sexy.”
I looked at myself in the mirror once more before I turned to both of them. “I need a favor—from both of you.”
“Anything, sweetheart,” Cobra said.
Viper drew close. “You know we’re here for you.”
They teased Kingsnake and each other viciously, but their loyalty was transparent when they tended to me. I knew they liked me, but their commitment to my needs was for a stronger reason than that. “Traditionally, the dad walks the bride down the aisle, and my dad died when I was little. So…I was wondering if you guys would do it?”
Cobra’s eyebrows jumped high up his face in surprise.
Viper’s expression hardened into stone, not in a cold way, but that seemed to be how he expressed his shock.
“Us?” Cobra planted his hand against his chest and looked at his brother. “You want us to do it?”
“You don’t have to. I just thought—”
