Page 1 of Accidentally Wedded To A Werewolf

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Luna glared out at the snow disdainfully.

“I’m going to drive off a cliff and die,” she announced to her empty car. “Play something fun at my funeral.”

Her phone’s loudspeaker crackled from the passenger seat. She paid for the best phone coverage, but the mountains surrounding the road made her think they didn’t actually meanfullcoverage.

“Luna Stack,” her fiancé said. “Putting the fun in funeral.”

There was an annoying slurping sound.

Luna narrowed her eyes. “Are you getting started without me?”

“Babe,” Hector said. “I’m not even on theplaneyet. I don’t leave for another four hours. I’m still at the restaurant having drinks with your family. They say hi, by the way.”

“Hi,” Luna said sourly. “Is Dad having fun? I hopehe’s having fun. I’m at a conference in the middle of Nowhere, Alaska, forhiscompany.”

“Youinsisted,” Hector reminded her. “He didn’t even want you to go!”

Luna ignored him, wiping a stray streak of lip gloss off her chin in the rearview mirror. “I’m gonna get stuck out here with nothing but bikinis and skirts for warmth. I packed for the beach, not this winter wonderland bullshit. Can you pass me to Dad?”

There were sounds of a scuffle.

Luna frowned. “Hector?”

Her little brother’s voice echoed through the receiver. “Hi, Luna! Hector says you’re stranded in monster country. Don’t get eaten!”

“Monster country,” Luna repeated. “Everywhere’smonster country, dipshit. Your best friend’s a vampire, Clancy.”

“I heard there are way more in those mountains,” came Clancy’s breathless voice. He sounded tipsy, which he shouldn’t have been since he was still nineteen.

“Are Mom and Dad letting you drink?” Luna asked.

Clancy snorted. “I’m incollege, Lu. I’ve been drunk before.”

“No, I know. I’m just surprised they let you after you puked in a pot plant at Mom’s birthday party.”

“I had food poisoning!”

“Yeah, from all the tequila,” Luna groaned. “Hector, be a dear and take the phone away from my idiot brother.”

“On it, Popsicle Princess,” Hector called.

Luna rolled her eyes. “I’m not frozen yet!”

There were more scuffling noises and a whine of protest from Clancy.

Luna peered out at the road. The snow was definitely getting thicker, and she had another hour before she reached the airport. She poked at her phone, bringing up Google Maps. There was a town coming up, right? She wouldn’tactuallyget stranded in her car, slowly freezing into an heiress popsicle.

Google Maps dropped in and out of service, her little dot appearing and disappearing on the long stretch of road.

“Still can’t believe I’m the only one who had to go to this stupid conference,” Luna mumbled as she tapped hopefully at her glitchy phone.

Her dad’s voice echoed distantly through the crackling receiver. “You begged, honey. How was it? As boring as I told you?”

Luna sighed. Ithadbeen kind of boring. And the parts that hadn’t been boring, she couldn’t talk to her dad about.

Her dad let out a satisfied grunt. “What did I say? Stacks aren’t made for work, hon.”

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