Authors: Tamara Rose Blodgett
Blood Enchantment (72 page)
Paco
The narco was not invited, they do not wish to play anymore.
I look at Zaire, absently wondering what he's done there, to get that particular misery out of my life.
He tilts his hat in my direction. The motion is little more than a caress of the brim, but an acknowledgment nonetheless. The owner of Club Alpha got what he wanted.
I'm standing under an arc of flowers on my wedding day. The perfect woman will enter this artfully constructed courtyard in the next few moments, and I owe it all to Zaire and his determination to secure a happiness I could not. I share the sentiment of the other Club Alpha players—
I'd do it again.
Seeing Greta enter through the tall rustic gallery doors in a gorgeous floor-length dress of soft white takes my breath, shattering the oxygen to the wind. I'm left gasping at her beauty.
My fortune.
I finger the matching wedding bands inside my pocket.
Greta's worth was never in her wealth, but in who she is.
To me.
I scan the audience as the music starts, catching Gia's eye. She winks, and I give her a nod.
Tallinn's dark presence graces the only exit. His eyes constantly rove the proceedings, though things could not be safer. I moved heaven and earth making sure of it.
The music trills, announcing the beginnings of the traditional American song “
Here Comes the Bride.
”
And she does.
Greta begins to walk down the aisle, and my heart swells, my chest tight with a new emotion—the only emotion.
Love.
THE END
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A Terrible Love
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