SWNOVELS Chapter 140
Chapter 140: The Wedding (1)
Drexel POV
As the evening approached and the full moon rose in the night sky, I got even more anxious. It's not that I was afraid of getting married, but the effect of the moon rays was getting stronger by the second. The soft beams were burning my skin and all I wanted was to claim my bride. The full moon had strong effects on the werewolves
Being the children of Moon Goddess, we couldn't help the emotions that kind of doubled in us. Without mates, we were on our sexual high, and with mates, it was a different story
Some called it a moon fever
I was wearing my tuxedo when Leo dropped in
along with Eric. "The guests have already assembled in the temple grounds, Alpha," said Eric as Leo helped me wearing my tuxedo. "You must hurry up and be there before Penelope."
I was holed up in my room and Leo was strict not to let me meet Penelope because he said it was bad luck to meet your wife before marriage
Penelope was in her room getting all dressed up with the help of our stylist Sarah and her team. I knew that Penelope was into simple things but come on! I was the Alpha of the largest pack. I wanted everyone to see my beautiful mate in her most beautiful form when she was bonded to me
"I want to see her, just once!" I pleaded with my beta who had turned into this crazy strict father of mine
"Nope!" he refused. You will see her only at the
temple now
"You are being absurd. You know that, right?" I growled
"I am just making sure that this pack is full of good luck after you marry Penelope."
"And what does that mean?" I snapped
"Tt means that we get to see heirs of Alpha Drexel," Leo replied nonchalantly. Eric hummed in agreement
Shaking my head at the way my pack members thought about this union, I picked up the blue velvet box that had wedding rings and gave it to him
The temple was jam packed. Though Leo had told me that Alphas and their Lunas have come
from almost every place under me, I didn't know that there were so many. As I walked through the temple gardens, they parted for me and bowed in submission
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I took a deep breath as I walked in the center of the garden through a path that was strewn with flower petals. The temple was beautifully lit by strings of white lights that traversed everywhere
Every tree and bush were sparkling with yellow and white lights. It looked as if the stars had come on the earth for my Penelope
My breath lodged in my throat, I climbed the stairs of the temple and walked towards the main sanctum where the statue of the Moon Goddess was. A month back, this was the place where I exposed Freya and the five Alphas. The memory brought bile to my throat. It made me remember my mistakes and what all I missed doing with Penelope. I exhaled a ragged breath,
trying to breathe out those memories
I reached the sanctum and gave the blue velvet box to Eric who was following me all the way here. Jarlen was standing right over there and he looked... happy
"You should have listened to me the day I said you should marry her instead of Freya," he chuckled. We both hugged each other. I couldn't have agreed more. He had hinted that I should marry Penelope on the full moon day the day he met
her
I stood by the side of the Moon Goddess's marble statue. This temple was ancient. The statue in it was old. It was said that whenever the mates bonded here, a hidden knife would come out from within the statue. It never showed when wolves married out of love
Strange. I didn't know how Moon Goddess
judged that we were mates or not. I mean how would a statue judge that
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I nervously waited for about twenty minutes, shifting on my feet, looking at my wristwatch every ten seconds, wondering how my bride would look, wondering 1f the Moon Goddess would present her knife for bonding and imagining how it would be to kiss her
"You look like a teenager who has just reached puberty," Eric commented on which Jarlen laughed
"You can't blame him!" he said as I grunted
I was about to give them a reply, when something in the air shifted. It was charged with current. The mouthwatering scent of my bride wafted in the air and I froze. A shudder passed through my body as if a thousand butterflies
touched me all at once. I felt a caress of a thought. A tendril that seeped in my mind and calmed my nerves. I didn't know how Penelope could do it without my mark on her, but whatever it was, it was so... pure and beautiful and soothing. My eyes were fixed on the corridor, waiting for her to arrive
I caught a glimpse of her silk gown first, then her white silk sandals and then she came into view. The world stopped moving when I saw Penelope walking through the corridor in her white silk wedding dress, the veil over her face and a large bouquet of white lilies. I stopped breathing because she stole my breath away. My favorite kind of adventure was about to begin
Her arm was curled in Leo's who had volunteered to give her to me because Steven couldn't make it. As she glided through the marble corridor, I couldn't help feeling that
serious attraction I had harbored for her from so long, getting even more serious. It was as 1f with every step she took towards me, the invisible thread that tied us became thicker, stronger
Her train trailed behind her as she took each delicate step in my life. It was the most breathtaking sight I committed to my memory
No one could be as lucky as me. My lips parted in a soft exhale when she arrived in the sanctum. Leo got her to me. And when she came to stand in front of me, I murmured, "You look so beautiful that I can't breathe."