Undercover Alpha: BBW Paranormal Werewolf Romance (13 page)

She couldn’t move, couldn’t speak for a moment. All she could do was slowly lower her legs and listen as she and Jason caught their breath.

“You’re amazing,” Jason said, putting his hand on her stomach. For once, it didn’t feel too big, or awkward, or ugly. She felt beautiful.

“You make me feel amazing,” she said. “Like a queen, for real.”

“You are a queen,” he said. “My Queen.” He put his hands on her face and leaned down, kissing her deeply.

“You were right,” she said, when they finally broke the kiss. “We need to move ahead.”

“With the clan alliance?”

“That too,” she said.

“Oh,” he said. “Are you sure?”

“I think I am,” she said.

He squeezed her tight. “I have to get you a ring.”

“I don’t need a ring,” she said. “I need to figure out how to explain all this to my family.”

Jason just laughed.

***

Ophelia was still working on her makeup.

“O,” Frieda said. “They’re gonna start playing the music, and we’re gonna walk out without you. That cute Andy dude’s gonna be standing up there without a girl to put on his arm.”

“It’s not symmetrical!” Ophelia whined. “Look, you won’t want me going up there—”

Frieda took her arm. Not gently. “Hold still,” she barked. “You’re gonna be symmetrical with two black eyes if you don’t—” She took the brush in one hand and Ophelia’s chin in the other, carefully brushed at one eyelid, and put the brush down. “Done. You look great. Now get up.”

Ophelia sighed. “Fine.” She got up.

She looked wonderful. She and Frieda were both wearing slim royal blue sheaths with diamond necklaces that had been in Oliver’s estate, with white lilies in their hair. Ophelia had picked them out. She’d helped Lucy pick out her own dress, too. It was a soft periwinkle, the kind of color Lucy loved painting with. Lucy had white lilies and blue hydrangea in her bouquet.

“I guess we’re all ready,” Lucy said. There was a knot in her stomach.

“If you’re sure about this,” Ophelia said. “You have puppies, don’t come crying to me.”

“Knock it off,” Frieda said. She’d taken to the clan with a tremendous amount of enthusiasm, to Lucy’s surprise, meeting with families and helping Lucy with all the communications that Oliver had once handled. With Andy’s knowledge of the clan, she’d set up a phone tree and an email list that would get urgent news out to everyone within a few hours, and then started working on the details of the clan alliance with Jason and Ian. “I’m surprised she didn’t inherit being Queen,” Lucy had told Jason.

“It’s about more than organizational skills,” Jason had said.

Having Frieda so involved had meant Lucy could keep her teaching job, which she was grateful for. She and Frieda had bought out Ophelia’s share of Oliver’s house, and they were still carefully navigating the best way to have a couple and a single woman all have their own space. Jason had suggested a mother-in-law apartment and had gotten a few funny looks.

Dad seemed happy with all of it; Frieda finally with a purpose, Lucy finally with someone who loved her just as she was, even if he was a werewolf. “Some things your mother said to me finally make sense now,” he’d said when they told him the truth. “And she always did get on with dogs.”

Now it was ‘s wedding day. She had her sisters at her side, and Jason had chosen Ian and Andy as his groomsmen, as a way to underline the clan alliance. This was more than a wedding. This was a celebration of the strength of both clans, of how much stronger they would be as allies. No one would go hungry in Lucy’s clan, that was for sure, and if a young wolf got in trouble anywhere in the country they’d have allies they could call on.

This was everything Oliver could have wanted.

And it was everything Lucy wanted too.

Dad knocked on the door. “You girls about ready? Jason might run away, he has to wait too long.”

“No he won’t,” Lucy said, and opened the door.

***

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