Chapter 22

Eden took a piece of buttered toast and forced herself to chew and hope that old dragon Anne doesn't start preaching to her about her duties on the wedding night

It wasn't that she didn't need advice, but she would never dare to ask for it from the people who would become her family…

When Lucas came to pick her up, Eden only had to take a quick look in the mirror to see that she was white as a sheet. 

She was standing in the living room when the young alpha was called in, not daring to sit down for fear of wrinkling her outfit.

“Well, this!” Lucas stood still on the threshold, eyebrows raised, a large bouquet of white roses and tea roses in his hand. 

“No doubt, Ian is going to marry a real beauty,” he exclaimed admiringly.

Eden blinked, then took another look, longer this time, in the direction of her mirror. Big eyes, long eyelashes, red lips... Not a beauty she thought to herself, but certainly more beautiful than she had ever been.

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