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.
I say to the second stylist, who nods and steps away
take the top off the box and reveal an identical wedding gown, just one size larger. “How…how did you even have the foresight to see
had a wolf pregnancy too!” I say, lifting the dress out and carrying it over. “I remember how unpredictable it is.
says, beginning to strip off the first wedding dress as I hang up her second and begin to steam it. “This
and glancing over my shoulder at her.
Cora says, her voice high and
and turn fully to her now.
stylist takes it away. ” You know that none of this has been important to me, and that Roger and
still in my hand.
before dipping her head to kiss Rafe on his. He burbles up at her, happily kicking his legs, making her laugh. “You’re more comfortable in
was a mess at the coronation! I ran
was perfectly you though,” she says, raising her eyebrows at me
at her, “you just be perfectly you! And it will be just as
chest. ” Actually, do you have a robe or something I can wear while I wait for the dress to be ready? I’m
the steamer at her and letting out
even as I point to the robe hanging up in
day? I have a feeling it’s going to be a really
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
chagrin, he wouldn’t consent to wear his
he laughs, looking around, “when you
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