Mated to the Pack(12)

Then entire crowd fell silent, mouths dropping all over the place. Only  the soft burble of the river accompanied the stranger's footsteps.

When the strange wolf reached them, he paused briefly before Trevor,  nodding once and saying in a deep bass voice, "My apologies, alpha. And  you," he looked at Cassie. "You must be Cassandra. I'm pleased to be  able to make it to your wedding day."

Um, who the hell was he?

Before she could answer, the wolf looked at Tamsin. He started to open  his mouth-and she stepped forward, reached out with her hand, and  slapped him so hard his head rocked back.

Cassie and half the audience gasped. The wolf didn't do anything except  rub his cheek, staring at Tamsin with intense green eyes. He just  shrugged and said, "Maybe I deserved that." Then he moved behind Trevor  into the best man spot.

Tamsin glared at him, then looked at Cassie. "Sorry," she said as she  stepped back to her own place. But she kept shooting little glares at  the other wolf, whose cheek now had a nice red mark on it.

Then everyone looked at Trevor. He simply snorted, then said, "Welcome back, Jackson. Might I now proceed with wedding my mate?"

Cassie almost giggled at his tone. And now she recognized the name.  Jackson. Trevor's beta, or second in command of the pack. Hmm. She'd  have to be asking Tamsin later what was up, because there definitely was  some big time history there. But in the meantime....

She looked back at her mate. Trevor smiled at her. A genuine smile that  lit her up inside and made her heart beat faster. "Are you ready, love?"  he asked, his voice soft but one hundred percent certain.

Cassie nodded. "Oh, yes. Definitely. Come on, let's make it official.  Love," she echoed, feeling her entire face practically about to break  because she was smiling so huge.

She kept looking at him, her entire body thrumming with the wild  knowledge of who she was, and how crazy lucky she was. Because she,  Cassandra Wakefield, was the one thing she never, ever in a million  years had dreamed she would be: a badass wolf shifter mated to the most  incredible, sexy, badass alpha of the pack.

"Yes. Let us make it official, mate," Trevor said back to her, holding  her hand tightly, and they both stood together as they were married and  mated, now and forevermore.


the end