Chapter 44 - So many plans and hidden agendas

Leah’s POV

I breathed yet another sigh of relief as my fingers slipped over the soft satin of my pure white dress. So far there had been no sign of Eli or his pack and although Emily wasn’t happy about our plan, she had no other choice but to agree that it was our only option. So, the time had come for Sebastian and me to be officially mated in front of the entire pack. It was a bigger thing to me than I let on and while we were busy making all sorts of plans it was easy to avoid the enormity of it all, but looking at myself in the mirror, all dressed up in my wedding dress, I couldn’t stop the tears from forming.

“Wow!” Emily’s voice echoed throughout the room and I turned to smile at her. “Our parents would have been so proud to have you as their daughter.” She hugged me and I couldn’t help but feel a little sad that I didn’t have either dad here to walk me down the aisle, but Emily volunteered and that was good enough for me. We walked out of the lift and I could hear the people e