The Alphas And The Orphan

Thursday 25th January

Star’s POV

After waving goodbye to Seb and Juliette, I hurry back to the dining room, my boys are still seated at the table, and I move around the room giving all five of them a k**s on the forehead, “I’m so happy with all of you, no snarling, no throwing anything and no one harmed.”

All five look at me with resignation in their eyes. Ace pulls me onto his lap. “He is going to be around more, isn’t he?”

“Yep, in fact, he will be sitting with Cam at the wedding!” There is a collective g***n around the table. “Why do I get the short straw?” He actually pouts.

“Before I answer that, I have a question to ask.” I look at my father, he looks back, a worried but hopeful look in his eyes, “dad, would you give me away tomorrow?”

The smile he gives me melts my heart. “It would be a dream come true, baby-girl. I would be honoured.”

Jumping up I run and hug him, “now to answer you question Cam, Seb is sitting with you because, my triplets will be standing, nervously waiting for the woman of their dreams to walk towards them and make the promise to spend the rest of their lives loving each other. And dad will be walking said woman down the aisle, so she can make said promise.”

I walk be hind Cam and hug his neck from behind, “now would my wonderful step daddy want to disappoint such a warm-hearted girl?”

My boys laugh at us, as Cam sighs in resignation, “when did I go from a reared warrior to a timid pup? Ok little Star, I will make nice with your socially awkward cousin.”

Planting a wet sloppy k**s on his cheek, I pat his head and say, “there’s a good puppy,” Smiling I Shout “toodles, I’ll be at your mums trying on my dress.” I grab the dress and the box it came in and head for the door.

“Asteri? Don’t forget my parents will be here in just over an hour,” shouting back that I’ll be there, I run to the Alpha suite.

“Amanda? Are you here?” She meets me halfway down the corridor and I shove the box at her. “Seb found my mum’s wedding dress. Can you help me? It may need alterations.”

She screams in excitement, causing the Alpha to run to her rescue. Goddess, these two are adorable. She grabs him and pushes him out the door, “go find your son’s. We have girl stuff to do.” She then closes the door on his confused face.

We hang the garment bag on the back of the door and I carefully unzip it. Amanda helps me take the dress out, gently shaking the gorgeous antique lace as it pulls free.

She closes her eyes, and a sob leaves her lips. “it still smells of her. f**k, it’s like she wore it yesterday. I remember your helping her into it the day of her wedding to your dad.”

Hugging her, I grab her Han and pull her into the middle of the room, “and now you’re going to help me.” She wipes her eyes and nods.

Stripping out of my clothes, and with Amanda’s help, I step into the dress. The boho style dress, fits me like a glove, the V neck bodice, with delicate cap sleeves hugs the curves of my breasts, showing a tantalising hint of cleavage, cinching in high on the waist, the sheath dress drops to the floor at my feet before fanning out at the back into a short train. The dress is so light is seems to float as I walk. I feel like a forest nymph.

Amanda stands behind me and takes my hair out of my plait, letting it hang loose down my back, then places something on my head. She moves away and pulls a bag out of the box. “s**t!” I turn to her and see she is holding a long lace veil in her hands, there are holes running through it, she throws it on the floor with a growl, then pulls a satin bag out, I can see more holes, she gingerly pulls out a pair of ruined satin shoes.

“Damn it!” Her eyes fill with tears, and her shoulders drop, “hey, hey, it’s ok, I was already thinking bare feet would be better with a woodland wedding and this dress and lets see if there is anything we can use from the bits we brought from the bridal store.

She cups my cheeks and k****s my nose, “I couldn’t love you more if you came from my own b***d baby-girl, I’ll go get everything we bought.”

She runs to what used to be Lex’s room, and when she comes back she is loaded down with bags and the heavy-looking garment bag, I help her put everything on the floor and we are about to start looking for the veil we purchased.

Pulling it out of the bag, I shake it out. The lace is very modern and it’s so white that it will look odd, “this isn’t going to work, do we need it? Let’s forget the veil, I’m not going to let a little lace ruin our day,

She smiles, then starts looking through the bags. Before running back into the bedroom, she is gone for a while, but when she comes back, she is carrying two boxes.

“Ok, I wanted to lend you this,” she opens the box and I gasp. Lying on a bed of satin is a soft pink pearl choker, with matching bracelet and earrings.

“I also found this in the top corner of Lex’s closet.” She opens the box with a grin. I chuckle. The box is full of my hair ties and scrunchies. He really did keep them.

she pulls out a light blue lace ribbon, “we can make this into a garter or something,.”

She helps me put on the jewellery and drags me into her bedroom. She fusses with my hair, then turns me to the floor-length mirror. I am mesmerised.

“Did Gem tell you where she got the dress?” I shake my head, “we had been searching and searching for the right dress for weeks, and she was getting really stressed, one morning, Luna Drew asked if we would look for something in the attic, so up we go I was whining about mother-in-laws, and then I heard a gasp, and Gem came out of an old wardrobe, holding a dress, she was so excited and we were both yelling, we carried the dress down and asked the Luna about it. It had belonged to her mother, but Drew had been too tall for it, so had never worn it. She told Gem to try it on, and when she saw her in it, she gave it to her, told her to pass it down to her daughter.”

I stare at her, wow this is really old. “So the dress is your something old, your sexy lingerie is something new, my pearls are something borrowed, and the stolen lace, you’re something blue.”

“And we are done and ready for a wedding!”