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Kismet nodded. “The king is going to give his blessing on our marriage first, and then the pastor will perform the actual ceremony.”
“Do you have a maid of honor?”
“Yes, my best friend Keyarielle is my maid of honor, and Brynn is a bridesmaid.”
“Acksel’s my best man and Sam is a groomsman.”
“I like the small wedding parties,” Dani said. “I was at a wedding and there were twelve bridesmaids. It took forever for them to get in place to start the ceremony.”
“It’s nice having things on a smaller scale,” Kismet said. “Makes it more intimate.”
Kismet lifted a boutonniere and handed it to Ren. A single pink rose was wrapped with dark green ribbon. “What do you think?”
“It’s beautiful.” Her bouquet was made up of the same roses, dotted with tiny white fairy roses.
“Are you staying with someone tonight?” Dani asked.
Kismet said, “My mom is coming to stay with me here. Ren is going to stay at the apartment.”
He grunted. “We’re already mated and you’re carrying my twins. I still don’t think we need to go along with this not seeing each other until the wedding.”
“It’s a tradition,” Kismet said. “Don’t you want to start off our marriage with all the luck? Why tempt fate?”
His wolf wanted him to say there wasn’t anything good luck related to him not getting to spend the night with her in his arms, but he kept his opinion to himself. His sweetheart was very determined to uphold wedding traditions. Not sleeping together the night before was his least favorite one.
When the bouquets were finished, Ren helped Kismet put them in the fridge for safekeeping. They said goodbye to their friends, and he scooped her up into his arms and carried her to the bedroom.
“What are you up to?” she asked with a smile that was all heat and woman.
“We’ve only got a few hours until my bachelor party and your bachelorette party, and then we’ll be separated until tomorrow afternoon. I want to take advantage of every single minute before I’m stuck all alone tonight.”
“I love how you think,” she said, wiggling out of her shorts. “You have the very best ideas, ever.”
* * *
Ren woke Saturday morning with a crick in his neck and a grumpy wolf in his mind. He’d had a hell of a time getting to sleep without Kismet in his arms. He’d been tempted a dozen times overnight to just say to hell with the tradition and go home to be with her, but it was important to her that they follow all the traditions, so he’d stayed by himself.
He’d busied himself in the office with paperwork, trying to make the time run faster. Eventually, even though the clock had dragged, he was finally getting ready. Because they were mixing human and fae traditions into their ceremony, Ren wasn’t wearing a traditional tux, but instead E’lahn had brought him an outfit like he’d worn to meet the king—dress trousers, a white silk shirt, and a black fitted jacket embroidered with silver wolves and dark pink roses.
There was a knock at the door and Ren called out, “It’s open.”
“We wanted to check on you,” his mother said. “We need to leave in thirty minutes.”
Ren joined his smiling parents in the main room. His mom dabbed at her eyes with a tissue. “Oh, you look so handsome!”
“Thanks, Mom.”
“We stopped in to check on your fiancée and everything looks amazing,” his dad said. “Kismet said to tell you she misses you.”
“I miss her, too.”
His mother held up the boutonniere that Kismet had made for him. “Let me pin this on you.”
“Thanks.”
His dad had a similar one, and his mom wore a wrist corsage of the same flowers as Kismet’s bouquet. “Her talent with flowers is amazing. Every single flower in your yard looks perfect, like it came out of a catalog.”
“She’s really talented, and I’m very lucky.”
