Page 20 of Wild Wolf
Her old friends turned to each other, talking about running with the moon last month, cutting heroff.
Okay, she could take a hint. Jordan rejoined Nolan, but the encounter with her old friends deeply bothered her. Come to think of it, they hadn’t been truly friendlysince…
Thatnight.
Don’t think of that night. Make every moment from today oncount.
How she wished she could forget about the past and truly begin to live. Well, she’d tryhard.
Suddenly she felt a shift in the air pressure, a heaviness that hinted of powerful magick. Jordan turned and saw several shining lights like twinkling fireflies. The lights floated in the air and danced around her. She laughed with delight, but the other Lupines at the table leaned back, fear tightening theirexpressions.
The Fae came to the wedding afterall.
A glowing pink and white light the size of a volleyball drifted toward her, accompanied by two smaller globes of light. The globes ball materialized into Selene, the queen of the Fae colony. Two tall, slender Fae, with silver hair spilling down the backsides, stood at her side. They did not smile, but Selenedid.
Jordan curtseyed as the other Lupines bowed their head inrespect.
“Jordan. Rise child.” The queen touched her shoulder and Jordan’s skin tingledpleasantly.
She did, and slid her hand into Nolan’s palm as her mate bowed his head in respect toSelene.
The Fae queen gave him a long look. “I am pleased with your bride, Nolan. You have donewell.”
“Your Majesty.” Nolan did not return the queen’s smile. “You didn’t give me much of achoice.”
Confusion filled her as she glanced at Nolan. Now was not the time to ask,however.
“Sometimes we must be forced into choices that are the right ones for us,” the queen saidsoftly.
The Fae queen indicated her attendants. “My attendant, Risa,” she said, gesturing to the shorter Fae, “And her sister, Elaine. Perhaps you remember them from your previous time here,Jordan.”
Jordan nodded. “Mypleasure.”
The sisters did not smile back. Rather, they stared at Nolan like lovestruck teenagers. The thought amused Jordan. Both “girls” had to be well over one hundred. Selene herself seemedancient.
Ageless.
The Fae queen touched Jordan’s shoulder again, and a faint tingling shot through her. It felt like a surge of power, but more familiar. “I bless your union and all the offspring that will result init.”
Selene’s voice dropped to a whisper. “And I give you a gift. When you need to find the power within yourself, use your voice. It is a true gift bestowed onyou.”
She puzzled over this. But this was not the venue to question the powerful Faequeen.
“Thank you. Will you stay and dine with us?” Jordan asked, wanting to spend more time with this magick creature she had seldom seen in her years with thepack.
Selene gazed around at the fearful faces. “I think not. But thank you, child, for asking. You honorus.”
With a nod at Nolan, she morphed into a ball of pink and white light again. Risa and Elaine stared longingly atNolan.
“Good-bye, alpha,” Elaine said in her high-clear voice. “If you need us, call uponus.”
“Yes,” her sister echoed. “We shall always be here foryou.”
Ignoring Jordan, they dematerialized into glowing balls of light. The sprites dancing around Jordan followed as the queen and her attendants floated away, back into theforest.
Jordan and Nolan walked back to their table. When they sat, she leaned close so no one else couldhear.
“You were forced into marrying me? BySelene?”
