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.
you call the seamstresses?” I say to the second stylist, who nods and steps away to place a call on her phone. “We
sighs as I take the top off the box and reveal an identical wedding gown,
it over. “I remember how unpredictable it is. At least you aren’t being flown over
as I hang up her second and begin to steam it. “This is….slightly less stressful than that. But
laugh a little, shaking my head and glancing over my shoulder at her. “So,”
Cora says, her voice high
a little and turn fully to her now. “You’re not excited for your
and shaking her head at me as she steps fully 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
the steamer still in my hand. “Don’t be anxious, Cora. It’s going to
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 the
was a mess at the coronation! I
eyebrows at me
her, “you just be perfectly you! And it will be
” Actually, do you have a robe
at her and letting out a
says, swatting at me and laughing, making me turn away and get back to work. But even as I point to the robe hanging up in a
a feeling it’s going
because I didn’t want everything to look the same, and like we couldn’t make something special
at my side, Rafe in my arms in a chic little tuxedo with a white jacket. To my chagrin, he wouldn’t consent to wear his little crown
he laughs, looking around,
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