Sold AS The alpha King's Breeder

Sold as the Alpha King’s Breeder Chapter 497

Chapter 155: Bonus Story – An Unofficial Royal Wedding

*Ciana*

In the early afternoon on the day before my wedding, I stood on a fitting platform while Brook worked on the final fitting for my dress and Sherry worked on finding the right makeup palette that would match the occasion.

I said “occasion” because it was not just my wedding anymore. The Public Relation department had turned it into this ordeal of a national celebration and public event as the first step to establish a transparent and people-friendly image of the royal court.

Floor length mirrors surrounded me on three sides while my friends worked to turn me into a beautiful princess bride.

The dress I was stuck in was far more lavish than I ever imagined. Apparently, because I was in my third trimester, the seamstress thought that weighing me down with excessive layers of fabric would make me more comfortable.

It was a hefty ball gown with several layers of taffeta and tulle making up the wide spread hoop-skirt.

The bodice was encrusted with jewel—studded lace. It snugged around my pregnant belly and fitted around my breasts, making them pop out in ways I wasn’t used to.

“You look absolutely stunning, Ciana,“ Sherry said, pulling me from my thoughts.

‘The seamstress and her four helpers spent more than two weeks non stop making this dress for you. She did really well, people probably won’t even notice that you’re pregnant,” Brook added.

‘And with your natural beauty it just makes this dress so much more outstanding,” Sherry added.

She started working on my hair, pinning it up in a half-up, half-down do.

‘It is so easy to get a makeup color palette that matches your natural skin tones and eyes and hair color,” she said.

She peeked over my shoulder and I met her eyes in the mirror. I smiled and nodded politely.

‘It isn’t weird that I’m in a traditional, pure white wedding dress, and also nearly seven months pregnant?” I asked, putting my hands on my belly.

Sherry and Brook laughed and kept working.

I looked at my reflection in all three of the mirrors. The dress was gorgeous from every angle, except for the fact that it just didn’t feel right on me.

Suddenly, I had a flashback to when I’d tried on dresses in the Moonlit Crystal for my fake wedding to Warren.

Theo and Brook had both been there. Brook had been so full of praise for the dresses I wore, but Theo…

He’d said all kinds of things.

‘… with a skirt like that, you could be dropped out of an airplane at ten thousand feet and sail gently to the ground.’

His words echoed in my head and I ran my hands along the hefty, wide skirt I was currently wearing. This skirt was so similar to that one. Would Theo think the same thing this time?

1 hope it doesn’t snow, though. In a dress like that, well never find you.’

Another comment about the dress color stuck in my mind. I frowned as I examined the color of this dress. It was the purest white I’d ever seen, just like freshly fallen snow.

I groaned a little and shook my head. Was there such a thing as the flawless wedding dress?

Then there was the last comment Theo had made.

‘… I just think maybe you should try a dress on in the right size. That one clearly doesn’t fit. You’re spilling out all over the top of it.’

Glancing down at myself, I saw how my third-trimester-pregnant breasts popped out of the fitted cups. It was made to fit me perfectly, and according to Brook and Sherry, it was. However, to me, it still felt, and looked, like I could pop out of my dress at any moment.

The more I looked at myself, the more I felt like I wasn’t wearing a dress. I felt like I was shoved into a teeny, tiny, pale, parachute!

under my

my mind and now I couldn’t stop comparing my

to the next as I tried to stop seeing the dress as something horrible,

covered my face with my hands

in

are you talking about?” Sherry asked. “Ciana, you look absolutely gorgeous.” “Do I?” I asked, glancing at the

just nervous, Ciana. You’re getting married and the entire kingdom is going to be there. That is something to

“Yeah…”

She was right.

hadn’t hesitated in saying yes. Of course, at the time, I thought we’d have the chance to talk about what kind of wedding

to the capitol to attend the wedding tomorrow. What I thought should have just been friends

all my imaginings had I thought I’d have such a lavish, massive wedding ceremony. Whenever I thought about my wedding, I thought about it being small and

skin shivered at the

ankle in the heels

the dress and planted my face on the

I forgot my

up or embarrassed myself, it would be in

said, cutting into my

I asked frantically, my

You’re going to be fine at the wedding because it is your day. Just forget about the rest of

unsettled because you’re pregnant. It’s normal to feel emotional and vulnerable during pregnancy, but that does impact your usual confidence. Just breathe through

and closed my eyes. Well, I breathed

You’ve got this, and it is all going to go well,“ she

rehearsed it in front of like ten people. There are going

still be fine,“

adjustments, she helped me out of the dress. Sherry did some last

on, let’s get you changed into your own clothes,”

simple yet elegant

a rehearsal dinner tonight for close friends and family only. Alpha and Luna Black will be there along with Lady Nita. This is the dress His Majesty ordered for the dinner, do you not like

putting it on, I found

it hung to my ankles but was a little shorter in the front, hanging to my shins. The dress had a high,

to the base of my neck. The dress was sleeveless and the

off my adorable belly

Honestly, if it was up to me, I’d choose to wear this at my wedding,’ I admitted softly,

mirror, I saw how Sherry and Brook smiled and

on, we’ve got to catch the car that is going to take

‘Greg is waiting.

changed into nicer dresses. All three of us got in the car. I

fancy was this

stopped to let us out. I recognized

heart thudded in my chest as I looked at the hilltop and the sun

trees that stood side by side. Between the trees an archway made of sticks had been

the archway was a circle of flower petals. Wildflowers grew all over

overlooked the palace and in the

here before, I’d never imagined that after some decoration, it could be

and just a few chairs where guests would sit. By the number of chairs,

under the archway in a midnight blue dress that had sparkles that made her

in a tuxedo. I knew he was Theo’s best

all the chairs were on one side of the aisle. On the other,

Tears pricked my eyes.

a rehearsal dinner, it

had planned my dream wedding for me after aII—a small and intimate outdoor ceremony with only the closest

could ever ask