Charlie and Ella 4
Charlie POV:
The seconds between me asking her to marry me and her answer felt like centuries. It wasn’t right in our culture to slop to hide your love from the pack, it was an insult to them, but right now they deserved to be insulted. My mother was determined to bully her away from me and I knew she would believe the lies and plain being spewed at her. How someone so beautiful not only thought me worthy of them but also thought I was out of her league I’ll never understand.
The only thing more insulting than being heir to the pack would be getting divorced my mother would have to end her smear campaign against Charlotte. I had been coming to inform her that my mother had spent the better part of the day telling everybody that she had seduced me and was trying to take over our pack for Graysons sake. Most of them seemed to believe her but luckily there were a few who had been shocked by my mothers deranged antics. She had lost some respect in her babying James’s outbursts.
I wouldn’t let Charlotte hear those obscene stories, I would make her my wife and raise her up above all those leeches.
“Yes,” she spoke so quietly I almost missed it.
“What?” I had to make sure I wasn’t making it up in my head.
“Yes,” she repeated this time with fervor and conviction.
I could have died then my life was fulfilled. I scooped her up, thankful the goddess had smiled enough on me to create her.
She kissed me and looked up at me with a bright shining smile over her face.
“This is insane,” she muttered in between my incessant kisses.
“No trust me this is the most sensible thing I’ve ever done in my life,” I told her again, bringing my lips to hers.
She pulled away from me afterwards, pacing for a moment I wanted to pull her back to me and silence any worries she had.
“How are we supposed to do this? We’ll need to get to the moon pool at night, I’ll need a dress,” she began muttering.
It was true we needed a plan, but again my only thought was releasing the woman who had agreed to marry me.
We decided to sneak out separately I would go out first because I was on the second floor and it would be harder for me. She would sneak out her window. I would sneak out the side door and we meet about 50 yards away from the house figure that would give us enough room for talking.
I was sure that my parents would find us at some point figure out what we were up to, but my mother seemed to have sulked back into our corner for the rest of the day.
After I had left her, she had gone on the phone with my sister who given her permission to go through her dresses and I was waiting for her to find me in the woods. I’m sure she’d be a vision no matter what she chose. Even though I knew her to be breaking, I wasn’t expecting the ethereal angel that came before me.
“ are you OK? Did you make it out all right?” She asked me but the words didn’t quite compute in my head. In fact, I don’t think I could’ve picked out a single word in the entire English language at that moment.
She was in a white dress that had sparkles all over it, she was illuminated in the moonlight. I couldn’t compose a single thought that would compare to what I saw before me. Her hair curled falling down her back, the strapless dress, bearing her shoulders to the wind and slight goosebumps on her.
Any, and all that I had once had of her paled in comparison.
“Are you okay?” She asked me again her face worried and fearful. She kept her hands around my face and it brought enough sense to me to speak.
“I’m fine,” I managed but it only made things worse I sounded like I’d been punched in the gut. Somehow, I managed to compose myself and find the strength to say anything. “You are beyond the dreams of any man,”
She shakily ran her hands down her dress “So you like it?”
“ if I ever tell you, you’re not beautiful just know I’ve been taken somewhere,”
She shook her head and pushed me away playfully, and we had it off into the woods towards our moon pool.
I was supposed to be in front of the moon pool with hundreds of wolves from all over the country. There would have been great parties, dancing, and tournaments. My wife should be adorned with gifts to garner her favor.
Instead we rushed under the cover of darkness and flitted through the trees to make our vows in secret. I should feel guilty for not pleading in front of my pack, and her pack, and our parents. Right at this moment though I was thankful it was just us. She was all I’d ever need anyway.
When we arrived we stumbled breathlessly stopping in our tracks at the reflection of light on the small body of water.
“Last chance, are you sure?” I turned to her and all she did was smile brightly and drag me in front of the arch ready to be married.
I couldn’t believe this was it we were now going to be joined forever. We promised to take each other for the rest of our lives. I kept waiting for her to hesitate to realize what a mistake she was making marrying a fool like me. Taking on dragons for someone who couldn’t put two words together.
Instead she matched every word I spoke agreeing to be my wife, to marry me, have children with me, to be by my side whatever comes our way, no matter the troubles we may face.
At the end she stepped forward baring her shoulder to me and I felt my heart jump into my throat but I wouldn’t have stopped even if I wanted too. A force greater than anything I had ever known pulling me forward to but down hard into her.
She bit into my as well it didn’t hurt at all and I prayed she had been blessed with that as well. She slumped against me ever so slightly the power of the goddess reaching her a flowing through her. Now an heiress to the pack.
My wife.
We nestled against a tree, talking of our life together. How many kids we wanted, what we wanted for the pack. Making plans and dreams that we knew would be shattered come morning. We fell asleep in each others arms. Waking with the first morning light.
We begrudgingly made our way back to reality but there wasn’t anything my mother could do. We were married, and we would stay married until the end of time.
We walked up the steps of my house. My mother flung open the door and her eyes landed squarely on the bite marks. I saw it all cross her face at once, anger, the betrayal, the fear, and the resignation that this was where we were at.
“ I hope you’re happy,” she sneered.
And to be honest, I was. I was married to a woman I adored that I would burn the world for. She would be the mother of my children, the Luna to my pack and we would live a great life together. I didn’t care that my mother was angry, all I cared was that I got to spend my days by Ella’s side
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