Chapter 151
Annette POV:
We decided on a party, it would be good to have some good memories for the bad came. Everyone needed one last one last night without any care or any worries.
One last final hurrah before the darkness came. It felt like over these past few weeks perhaps we dreamed it. This phantom was no longer a part of our world.
We still had no way of knowing when he would attack and where he would come from. We had a strong suspicion. His ego wanted to beat us on our home turf. He had been properly stomped into the ground and now he wanted to do the same.
I had welcomed the distraction of a party from this horrible fight we were heading towards. For once I let myself melt back into the mindless matters of ribbons and balloons. Nothing seems quite so hard when you have a celebration to plan.
We had roasted lamb on spitz and we had done up the pavilion with ribbons and banners. People were dancing and cheering, and I could only think of what the celebration would be like if we actually won. How many fewer people would be here?
My mind at the thought of those who might not ever grace, our presence again. I couldn’t stand it. How much more did they want to take?
I knew everything they wanted was supposed to be ours, supposed to be sacred. So I let the wine pour and the mead overflow. I want to know more cares for one last night and then we could drown ourselves and all the pain that was to come.
I could only hope he wouldn’t keep it too much more suspense, I knew he wouldn’t. He was a selfish greedy man. He wanted his prize and he wanted it now.
“Dance with me,” my husband held out his hand.
“The big Bad Wolf dances?” I teased him, before I stood and let him guide me out to the dance floor.
“We have our whole lives to worry about things but I am done worrying about this. no more will be taken from us. I promise,” he vowed, I saw it in his eyes, the resolution that nothing else would happen. I so desperately wanted to believe him, but I knew it was out of his hands. Even the great Grayson Addams couldn’t stop the bullet.
Things were going to change again, but I trusted him to keep us safe. I would do the same. I wouldn’t lose him, and I knew he would do anything to keep me safe.
I pressed myself to my husband’s chest and relished in his warmth and solidness. The sturdy rock I could latch onto this Storm. I looked out at our people who all seemed to understand that they needed to enjoy this moment some faces of apprehension, others of carefree joy that had missed moments like this.
I remember my wedding feast and the unbridled happiness that came over our people. We didn’t know the monsters that were coming our way then, we didn’t care. We were all just so happy to have each other and have a place to call home.
Memories resurfaced of the childish fighting my husband and I did when we first met. How hard we had fought against our fate. Instinctively, my eyes drifted over to my brother. He laid against one of the columns and stared at Ella from across the pavilion.
She looked beautiful in her dress and her hair floating down her back. Felt like I was looking at a past version of myself. I wanted to shake him and tell him not to be so moronic as a moment like this goes by.
“Go,” my husband told me relinquishing me from his arms. “ he’s been a child long enough,”
I think it was lucky for my brother that I was the one coming to speak to him and not my husband. I’m sure that if Grayson had his way he would fling those two and into a room and lock them in there until they gave in.
At this point, I was half tempted.
“Ask her to dance,” I ordered my brother half-heartedly.
He set his jaw and looked away from her as if he wasn’t at Zodiac killer level of leering. “I don’t know who you’re talking about,” he huffed.
“Enough!” I snapped. “She’s a great girl and you are a lost little puppy following her around and she is tormenting herself because she doesn’t think she deserves you and you are only facilitating that belief by refusing to be anywhere near her!”
I was gobsmacked by how stubborn he was being over this. He knew she wanted him to, and he knew that all of the tradition was nothing if lived in an unhappy marriage. Unhappy leaders make for an unhappy pack, he knew that and he was still torturing himself.
Why for our parent's sake he should have realized by now there are worse things I. Life than our parents' disappointment.
“She deserves way more than me, I don’t want to put her in a position like that. Grayson is a full-blooded alpha and he still is being raked across the coals. Imagine a full pack of people like that I won’t do that to her,” he growled at me.
“Excuses!” I hissed, grabbing him by the shoulder of his shirt. “And you know our people would never! They want to see you happy with all you’ve sacrificed and done for them. They see that and you insult them if you suggest anything else!”
How dare he try and degrade the pack that we grew up in. He was using the pride of our parents to hide his cowardice and I was fed up with it.
I walked away from him deciding that if he was going to behave like a child I was going to treat him like a child and that my husband probably had the best course of action.
“Ella can you help me get some more wood for the fire,” I softly whispered to her and she followed me dutifully.
As Luna, I held keys to certain buildings around the pack lands. The utility room of the keep was one such room and Ella didn’t seem to notice that’s where we were headed and not the woodshed.
“Here,” I opened the door and peered inside.
She got a confused look on her face “Did you place extra wood in here?” She asked.
“Sorry,” I told her before shoving her into the room and locking the door.
“Annette!” She shrieked banging on the door. “What are you doing?,”
Get my brother to the utility room at the back of the keep.
Already on my way
Not long after I watched my husband walk with Charlie through the keep to the other door of the utility room.
Time for you to fess up brother dearest.
This was for his own good. He needed to face his fears and admit he liked Ella. Goddess forbid something happens in the coming weeks and they never get the chance. I cared about both of them too much to see that happen.
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Hi everybody sorry for missing last week I was a little under the weather, but good news is that my schedule will be clearing up soon and I can write more! So i have a question if I were to put in a epilogue about charlie and ella would you be intrested?
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