Chapter 23

The moment he is gone, I huff in relief. What the hell is happening to me? I grab my dress back out of the closet and head to the bathroom to get ready. It’s no surprise to me I am ready before the Alpha. I wait in the large community center where the ceremony is taking place as everyone hustles around me, setting up chairs and flowers and all the things unimportant.

Why must everything be some monumental event? it’s not a mating ceremony or a luna ceremony. It’s a damn guardianship. I tap my heeled black ankle boot in annoyance. It took me all of 10 minutes to be ready. A swipe of eyeliner and mascara, hair up in a large twisted bun, and stepped into my dress.

“Damn.” Kane says, approaching me.

“Thanks, I think.”

“Alpha Wade says he will be down soon. Do you know if we have everything we need to do this ceremony thing?” He asks, looking around at the spectacle that was being erected around us.

“Honestly, we just need the stone dagger which I already pr