The Angel and the Dragon (Hattie Jenkins & The Infiniti Chronicles Book 8)
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I turned to my husband. “I have to get dressed,” I said, kissing his nose. “Think you can round up these animals yourself?” I straightened his tie.
“I guess they’re kinda my kids now too, right?” He said, arching an uncertain brow.
“You’re good at this marriage thing, eh?” David tapped my bum as I marched off to find my wedding clothes.
“I know it’s her big day and everything,” Carbon said, fiddling with a bow tie at his neck. “But, do you think she’ll be carrying some salmon treats with her? I mean, I’m gonna have to wait for at least ten minutes while Reverend Peacefield does the wedding speech. I’ll need a snack, you know?”
I rolled my eyes. “Carbon, Maude doesn’t have time to think about feeding you treats on her special day,” I said.
“It’s how she’s going to feed Horace, is what I’m wondering about,” Fraidy said, marching into the room with clean paws, and brushed hair. “That guy is three times Maude’s size. She’s gonna be eaten out of house and home.”
“Irusan,” I said, reaching out for my brave kitty. I climbed into my sky blue silk dress and clipped a pair of fancy earrings to my ears. “Glad to see you’re wearing your flash with pride today, little man.” I nudged the patch of white fur visible on Fraidy’s chest. My sweet kitty had spent his entire life hiding this anomalous streak, for fear of being rejected by his wholly black brothers and sister. It had been Hinrika, Fraidy’s faerie cousin who had recognized the mark of the king of the cats. Irusan. Without even knowing it, my Fraidy boy had been born the king of all Cait Sidhe and bore the white mark to prove it. Through the years, however, my moggie had covered his unique marking with everything from mud to licorice juice, to Mother Night hair dye, in an attempt to ‘fit in.’ Legend had it that Irusan had been a brave and powerful cat king, and Fraidy had proved this lore by overcoming his more recent namesake by being the sole challenger to Shields’ dragon when the beast had tried to kill us with fire.
Fraidy stuck out his chest. “Hinrika thinks it makes me look handsome,” he said, purring.
“I think it makes you look like the dufus you are,” Gloom said, looking squarely at my king of cats.
“Well, I’ll be wearing it for the next wedding too, dufus or not,” Fraidy told his sister with an air of indignation.
“Well, if you guys don’t hop to it, you’ll be late for that one too,” David said, shooing the kitties from the chair.
The ring bearer for the next wedding had something to say about that, however. “Nope, nope, nope,” Jet pounced around the room to show us how serious he was about the matter. “There ain’t nope way I’m gonna be late for Portia-Poo’s wedding, nope way, nope,” he explained. “Ol’ Fearwyn chose me as her ring bearer, yep, yep, so I’m gonna be early and beat Thaddeus and Portia to the altar, yep.” My zippy cat’s pride knew no bounds at this moment. That Portia Fearwyn had selected for her ring carrier, the cat that she had previously wanted to murder, was a testament to the fact that the old witch harbored a deep respect for my kitty.
“Three weddings in one year,” Shade said, shaking his head. “Who’d have thunk it?”
David and I looked at one another. My dragon-shifting husband gave me a radiant smile.
“I don’t think anyone could have imagined how everything turned out, buddy. It’s like a dream.” And taking me in his arms, he said " And it’s the best dream ever.”
THE END
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