The show would go on.
CHAPTER 32
AVRIL
After two ofChloe’s alphas stalked off to take care of Charlie, the wedding altar was close enough for me to hear my sister ranting at the alpha still sitting at her side.
“Shouldn’t you be over there helping?” Chloe hissed.
“I can see the action better from here! I wish I had some popcorn,” Sabien muttered, his gaze darting around the chairs as if a vending machine complete with buttery snacks would suddenly appear out of one of them.
“It’s the principle of the thing! We need to show a united front for my sister!”
“Oh, like having twenty-three alphas, half of them military-trained, aren’t enough to go after that limp-dicked cheater and whoever that other guy is? I can’t enjoy all the wedding drama if I’m a part of it.”
My sister hissed at him in her bad-bitch voice, “Sabien, I swear to God, if you don’t get off your ass, I am straight up locking you out of my nest for my next heat.”
Sabien sighed dramatically, making a show of getting to his feet and wiping fake dust off his pants before stalking off and joining the rest of his pack.
CHAPTER 33
DAVID
I swear to God,if one more person tried to stand between me and marrying Avril, I was going to lose my fucking mind.
The moment I saw her at the ceremony, I had never wanted her more. I couldn’t even recall a time when I hadn’t wanted to make her mine—now I got a chance to do it officially. In front of all of these wedding guests, I was itching to claim her, legally in the eyes of the world. I couldn’t wait to sign the paperwork and send it off to the government, telling everyone that she wastaken—so back the fuck off.
Avril’s dress looked like a dream—like a web of crystals glued to her hot figure, then cascading out into a ball gown that made her look like a fairy princess. With the tiara and the jewelry, she looked like glittering perfection. Simply exquisite.
God, she was gorgeous.
Avril was luminous and serene as she made her way down the aisle to me.
All I wanted to think about was that when I peeled that dress off her, it would be with Avril legally recognized as mywife.
But the moment that I finally got my head out of my ass and realized that I needed to ‘put a ring on it’ it seemed like everyother man Avril had ever romantically considered was coming out of the woodwork to try to do the same.
Avril wasmine.
Standing there and watching multiple men challenge me for Avril, and being told to stand down was agony. I couldn’t even think right now. All I could wrap my head around was that it was important to my woman—something about wedding pictures—and now I was expected to stand there and endure as pathetic man-children started whining about why they should get to take my girl.
I shouldn’t have had to listen to this; it was humiliating.
Ishould be the one in the other room beating the crap out of her ex. Frankly, the little shit deserved it. There would be nothing more satisfying than having my turn making him pay for hurting my girl.
The moment that Avril’s fathers and brothers… and the alphas married to her omega sisters all returned to the hall, looking a bit rumpled but surprisingly not worse for wear, I knew I needed to act fast.
If I kept allowing all the interruptions to pile up, I was never going to get to marry this woman.
“Excuse me.” I turned to the officiator, who was still sort of dazed, as if he was still processing the craziness of not one, but two men crashing the wedding to try to steal away the bride. I could totally understand—I was reeling from it, too. “Neither of the objections have any legal standing, those men were just… throwing tantrums. Could you do me a favor and marry the two of us?” Specifically before someone else barged into the room.
I needed to get this locked down and make herminebefore the next interruption.
The officiant nodded and took a deep breath.
For a moment, I was worried that he was going to say that he was going to need to review the objections or postpone thewedding. I’d heard that in some religious ceremonies, any sort of objection automatically halted the marriage proceedings.
Instead, the officiant held out his hands, gesturing to Avril and I. “By the power vested in me, I now pronounce you husband and wife. You may kiss the bride.”
