Ella
“Ella!” Cora shouts from the closet, her voice a little frantic. “Ella, help! Please!”
I turn quickly towards the closet, a biscuit and a cup of coffee in each of my hands and Rafe strapped to my chest in his little carrier. “What’s wrong?” I call as I hurry towards her.
But I see the problem immediately as I come to the door, with Cora wrapped up in yards of fabric and one of the stylists tugging fervently at the buttons which close the back.
“It doesn’t fit,” Cora says, her face worried.
“What?” I say, my eyes going a little wide. “But we did a fitting two days ago did you -”
“I guess I got bigger,” Cora sighs, looking down at the little baby bump that makes me so happy to see. “I don’t know – it would be a ridiculous thing to consider with a human baby, but with the way these wolves grow? In leaps and bounds?” She looks back up at me, shaking her head. “I’m sorry Ella what the hell are we going to do?”
“We’re going to use the back-up dress,” I say, grinning widely and shoving the rest of the cookie in my mouth while I put my coffee down on a shelf. Then I move for a big white box I’ve kept secretly in the corner under a pile of other big white boxes.
“Oh, thank god,” the stylist murmurs under her breath, making me laugh.
the seamstresses?” I say to the second stylist, who nods and steps away to place a call on her phone. “We
top off the box and reveal an identical wedding
how unpredictable it is.
off the first wedding dress as I hang up her second
head and glancing over my shoulder at her. “So,” I
her voice high and
fully to her
out of the dress and the stylist takes it away. ” You know that none of this has been important to me, and that Roger and I already had the mating ceremony to
to my sister, the steamer still in my hand. “Don’t be anxious, Cora.
Rafe on his. He burbles up at her, happily kicking his legs, making her laugh. “You’re more comfortable in the limelight than me, sis,” she says with a smile. “The way you handled
was a mess at the coronation! I ran backwards! I
though,” she says, raising her eyebrows at me with a smile. “Everyone loved it. I
her, “you just be
with a grin, crossing her arms across her chest. ” Actually, do you have a robe or something I can wear while I
her and letting out a little burst of warm
and get back to work. But even as I point to the robe hanging up in a corner of
this day? I have a feeling it’s
had the coronation yesterday, but it has been satisfyingly transformed. I was a little hesitant about the choice because I didn’t want everything to look the same, and like we couldn’t make something special for Cora and Roger, but…well,
wouldn’t consent to wear his little crown today – kept taking it off
laughs, looking around,
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