Chapter 35. Wedding Day

Cassian POV

I knew Lyra was beautiful from the moment I laid eyes on her, but I didn’t expect to lose my breath at the goddess who just walked into this room.

Her eyes smile at me from across the galley, now a makeshift wedding chapel with all the tables pushed to the side and white napkins tied in bows along the aisle, as her maid of honor—the artist behind those bows—escorts her toward me. She glimmers like a flower in full bloom, her strawberry hair glistening against her alabaster skin, turning this ship in the middle of nowhere into a palace.

My wolf howls with joy, and everyone else disappears from my mind—the first mate, Cathal, who stands beside me in place of Turgan, who would otherwise stand up as my best man, Maggie, Lyra’s maiden of honor, and the small contingent of my Royal Guard and its officers who are aboard ship, as well as just