Chapter 7- 27(0) dresses

"Hello!"

I was passed out in my bed when my door flunb open, and a cheery voice plucked me out of my dreams. I cracked an eyelid open and took in the blonde girl with sparkling green eyes. She looked about 24, in a pretty pink dress and gold glitter on her cheeks. Her hair was tied up in an intricate knot and everything about her just screamed eccentric.

She bustled over, reaching a hand out to help me from the tangle of sheets and for a minute I don't remember my own name not to talk of where I am at the moment. Then it all rushes back to me.

The library. Human luna. Werewolves. The red haired demon who tried to kill me. Kaison's declaration that we were getting married tomorrow evening. Today. Which was even worse after a terrible night of tossing and turning.

I was getting married tomorrow and I wasn't any closer to finding a way out of here. Kaison called off Elion hovering over me all the damn time, but now the twins who were shaped like mountain bears were at my door since last night.

I wasn't sure if it was because he was still skeptical about me not running away or if he thought one of his people might kill me when I was sleeping. Either one was not favorable at all.

The girl helped me up, smoothed down the nightgown I was wearing and gripped my waist. "Yes, yes." She began murmuring to herself. "This will do just nicely. I might have to let out a few inches, someone's been taking too many sweets, haven't they?"

"Hey!" I slapped her hands away. "I'm right here. And why the heck are you feeling me up?"

She ignored me and kept murmuring, this time taking in my tangled hair. "We'd need to do something about that mess too." She stopped abruptly and clapped her hands together and a large trolley was pulled in and hung on it were rows and rows of dresses in different sizes and colors. The girls who rolled it in came to me next and began peeling the nightgown off me.

I squealed and clasped my hands to my chest because they were like robots and we're freakishly strong.

The woman smacked my hand with an admonishing face. "How am I supposed to make your wedding dress, the epitome of class and dignity, a beauty fit for—" she trailed a glance down my body. I could have sworn she was about to say beauty too and changed her mind. "-you, when you won't stay still."

"Where's Dinah?" I did not sign up to be prod and poked, and fitted for a dress and a wedding I didn't even want. I stepped away from the crazy bat lady and towards the door. "I'm not taking off my clothes! I'm not wearing a stupid dress. And I'm not taking any more of your thinly veiled insults. All of you can go suck it!"

The blonde woman and her entourage's mouth fell open. I stilled and shot a smug look at her, my back still to the door. That'll teach them not to mess with me.

"Suck what?"

A voice said behind me. Even if my eyes were closed, and I was half deaf in one ear, something told me I'd still recognize his voice. It had been only three days and I was starting to pinpoint his deep baritone anyway. I slowly turned around, adjusting my thin dress back onto my shoulders. I couldn't remember myself putting it on last night due to exhaustion so I sent out a whispered prayer that whatever possessed me to talk trash right now didn't allow me to wear a see through dress. "Oh, it's you."

Kaison's jaw clenched but he didn't acknowledge the statement. He looked over my shoulder at the women. "Dawn. Ladies."

"Alpha." I heard Dawn say, a surprisingly nervous lilt to her voice. "We were just telling the Luna-to-be her dress options."

"Ah, yes." Kaison looked at me again and this time his blue eyes shone with irritation ,yes, and amusement? "She's painfully stubborn. You may have to tie her up."

The girls gasped. Of course he'd want that. Kinky bast— "I'm not wearing a frilly dress." I glared at Kaison the best I could standing at barely 5 feet.

Kaison's eyes flashed. He definitely wasn't used to people saying no to him. "We agreed—"

"We agreed on me marrying you, yes. But you didn't say jack s*** about a wedding dress." I lowered my voice to a furious whisper. "You seriously want me to wear one of those white monstrosities to a wedding you not only forced me to attend, but to attend as the bride as well?"

More gasps. Kaison's left eye twitched. I could tell he was losing his patience. We couldn't have one conversation without getting frustrated with each other. Only God knew how we were going to survive married life. What happened to happy wife, happy life?

Kaison stepped towards me, into my space until I was sure there wasn't a hair breadth of space between us again. I wasn't going to step back, because I was proud and I didn't want to lose this game of wills. He looked down at me and my heart stopped.

Yes, I hated him. Yes, he kidnapped me. But kidnappers shouldn't look like this or we'd never want to leave. His blue eyes cut into mine and my gaze dipped to his mouth and back again. "Wear the damn dress, venefica." He growled and said in a language I didn't understand and I damn near fainted. "Or I will lock you up in this room until the only company you'll have is the ghosts in the walls."

I swallowed. His gaze dipped down to my dress and I finally had the good sense to step back. Kaison stepped back as well, nodded at the women on ce more and left the room without another glance. I could finally breathe. I looked down and my dress wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. Still pretty indecent but at least I wasn't basically naked.

A large aaigh from behind me had me turning around. Dawn, Kaison had called her, had fainted theoretically into the other girl's arms. "Hold me girls. I'm burning up!"

The girls giggle and hold Dawn up as she requested while Dawn fans herself with her hands. "You two are something! I can see why he looks at you that way, you're exactly what he needs."

I was blushing like I had a firework in my throat. "I don't know what you're talking about. Can we just get this over with?" I stalked over and pulled a random dress out of the pile. The girls who were giggling before jumped up to help me with it.

"Oh, all of a sudden so eager." Dawn smirked then all of a sudden her face changed as the dress was zipped behind me. "Oh my moon goddess, take it off. It's disgusting and insulting. You're insulting me with that dress."

I rolled me eyes and slipped out of it again. It was more hours of that, trying on different gowns and Dawn explaining in great detail why it was a disgrace to be viewed upon. And at one point, I was starting to think the problem was me.

"Alright, that's it." I shook my head at the next dress the girls held up. I was done. I'd done what Kaison asked and I'd tried, I really did, but this woman was getting on my last nerve. "Yes, Dawn, I get it. I'm not perfect like you, I don't have a perfect body like you and your minions over there. My hair's flat and curly at the same time. I'm bloated and I have huge thighs. Doesn't mean you have to point it out every freaking second."

Dawn stopped whatever she was doing and looked at me. Her green eyes narrowed and she turned to her followers. "Girls, leave us."

I raise a brow at the way they immediately hop out of the room. Is she planning on murdering me too? "I know jujitsu."

"What's that?"

"Like a martial art? It's Japanese—Never mind."

"I don't hate you, Amara. Like you think I do." She said, glancing at me over her shoulder. "And you're —uniquely pretty. And your hair has character."

That didn't sound like a compliment. It sounded like she tried to compliment me and came up with the best she could do.

"Hmm." I say in reply.

"I actually thought you'd be far worse, like the other human. She was mousy, not like you, who has quite a lot to say. You talk so much, and it's mostly rather vile things. I've never seen Alpha Kaison so pissed anytime a person open their mouth like he was with you and I don't even blame him."

But my mind was already whirring. I had latched onto what she said before like a leech. "Human? Who was the other human, Dawn?"

Dawn must hear the tone of Mt voice because she turns back around. "You don't know? The first human mated with a wolf in this pack was Fiona, Kaison's mother."

My eyebrows flew up without restraint. Just when I thought there were no more secrets in this damn castle, another one popped up. It was like watching a soap opera. "Kaison's mother was human?"

"Yes!" Dawn gushed then she slapped a hand over her mouth and glanced around suspiciously. "I wasn't supposed to tell you that but I figured you should at least know a little about what you're getting into."

"How do you know all this?"

"My mother was the castle's tailor like I am now. I have to help her around the shop and I couldn't help overhearing somethings." More like eavesdropping but I wasn't going to say anything when she was giving me information so freely like this. "Fiona was a human like you, she has spirit although she was a quiet little thing. But she made the mistake of catching Alpha Ceaser's eyes at the time. And she paid for it. Dearly."

"What happened to her?" I leaned in as did she. I had a feeling what was going to come out of her mouth but I wanted to hear it all the same.

"She was killed, Amara."