Total pages in book: 46
Estimated words: 44113 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 221(@200wpm)___ 176(@250wpm)___ 147(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 44113 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 221(@200wpm)___ 176(@250wpm)___ 147(@300wpm)
I nodded, my mind whirling. Hang on, was I really about to just tell my friend that I’d gone out and married Prince Cole?
“One, two, three—”
“King Hayden.”
Shit.
Callie blurted it out before I could even finish thinking it through in my own head. But oh had she said it, and my jaw dropped.
Whoa.
“Faith!” she hissed at me. “Come on! Are you serious right now? You said—”
“Callie!” I blinked, shaking my head as I stared at her. Okay, forget me having had a drunk wedding to Cole. Callie was about to run off from her own wedding with one of his friends.
“You’re getting married today!”
“Yeah...” Her lips tightened. “But not to King Milton.”
“Wow, that’s….”
“Pretty crazy?”
“Well, yeah,” I laughed. “But also really freaking amazing?” I snorted. “I never pegged you for a runaway bride. I mean, wow, this is huge.”
“I don’t love Milton, Faith!” Her shoulders slumped. “And if I’m going to marry someone, I mean…”
“And you love Hayden?”
She nodded quietly. “I know we just met, but he’s—”
“I get it,” I blurted out. “Believe me, I get really, really get it.” I laughed nervously. “Even if everyone’s going to say he’s wrong for you, or if it’s scandalous, or if you know it’s going to freak everyone out—”
I quickly shut my mouth, realizing I’d pretty obviously moved on from talking about her to talking about me.
Callie grinned at me. “Um, got something you want to share?”
I could feel the heat creeping over my face, but I shook my head. Later. For right now, this was all about her.
“Later, okay?” I whispered quickly. “But tell me, when are you running off with King Hayden?”
“Soon,” she breathed, her face flushed. “Really, really soon.”
I squeezed her as I grabbed her suddenly, yanking her into a big hug as we both jumped.
“Oh my God, you’re getting married!” I whispered gleefully. “For real now!”
She beamed at me and I felt my heart soar.
“What do you need me to do?”
She laughed nervously. “Well, there’s going to be a tiny bit of trouble.”
“Like when you don’t walk down the aisle and everyone freaks the hell out? That kind of trouble?”
I winked at her and she rolled her eyes.
“Yeah, that.”
“Well whatever you need, I’m here for you. And if I could find Lola and Riley, I know they’d do whatever you needed too. Probably way crazier stuff than I could ever do.”
She laughed. “Well, first, I just need your help getting back into my wedding dress.”
Wait, what?.
I looked at her curiously. “Wait, exactly how soon is soon with you and Hayden getting hitched?”
“Umm..” She bit her lip, her eyes sparkling as the blush crept over her face.
“Like thirty minutes.”
My jaw was still dropped as I flung my arms around her and squeezed, giggling in happiness for her.
“Oh, and Faith?”
I pulled back, holding her hands as I beamed at her. “Yeah?”
“I need you to do something else for me.”
“Anything!”
Callie grinned. “Would you be my maid of honor-slash-witness?”
Yeah, forget being quiet, even in the supposedly blocked off wing. Because both of us shrieked for joy as I flung my arms around my friend.
Chapter 16
Cole
“Cole.”
I whirled at the familiar voice to see my friend Sven coming around the corner. I nodded at him as he approached.
“Where the hell have you been, man?” I raised a brow at him. I’d had a drink with him, Hayden, and Xavier a little earlier, before all the wedding festivities had started, but I hadn’t seen him at all after that. Him or Hayden, come to think of it. I mean, none of us had any real vested interest in even being at the wedding aside from the open bar. And I was pretty damn curious where he’d gone off to.
“Nowhere,” my gruff, man-of-few-words friend muttered.
My eyes dropped to his shirt collar, and I grinned. “Yeah well ‘Nowhere’ wears a pretty nice shade of lipstick, pal.”
Sven scowled at me, but I could see him trying to hold back a grin.
“You gonna tell me now, or are you going to make me liquor you up later and trick it out of—”
“Look, Cole, we don’t—” he glanced at his watch. “We don’t have a ton of time.”
Instantly, I was on alert.
“What’s going on?” I growled, tensing and glancing around.
Sven blew air through his lips slowly. “We, uh, we got a little bit of a situation.”
“How about we skip the riddles?”
He grinned. “Enjoying this wedding?”
“I’ve barely attended any of the reception so far, but, sure?”
“Well, get ready to leave it. Soon.”
“The fuck is going on?”
“Hayden’s marrying Princess Callie and running off with her.”
My brows shot up as my jaw about his the floor. “Holy shit.”
“Yeah.”
“Hold on, he’s marrying Princess Callie? On her fucking wedding day to Milton?”
“Have you ever known Hayden to be the subtle type?”
I whistled lowly, grinning. “Fuck, man. When?”
“Soon. Really soon. I’m actually going to meet him now.” He glanced at his watch again. “Think you can find Xavier?”