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"But Jake said he would And I won’t feel right until it’s done," Alicia insisted, determination in her voice

Jake wrapped his arm around her shoulder, but before he could defend their decision, Lelandi raised her brows at Jake, smiled, and patted Alicia on the shoulder "What I ainst tradition, we’re going to do this right We’ll have a proper wedding"

Proper wedding?

Jake groaned before he could catch hirinned but wisely didn’t say anything Even Alicia didn’t look pleased with the notion

"First, we need to get you a wedding dress You’ve been married before, so a creah, what the heck, since we don’t do weddings, you can hatever your heart desires No sense in sticking to a tradition we don’t even have"

Lelandi took Alicia’s arm and pulled her away from Jake and headed for the sunroom "We do have a bridal shop for the humans in town And the owner is a wolf, of course She will be ecstatic to be our consultant Her shop also carries forowns for our Victorian festival The men rarely dress up except for that, so this will be fun"

"I didn’t want to go through a whole lot of pomp and ceremony," Alicia said "I just wanted to e license And I have been o through any kind of ceremony"

"Nonsense It’ll be fun Silva and I can help you decide about the festivities afterward Darien can give you away We’ll have a ball"

Jake felt for Alicia She clearly didn’t want to go this far

To in a small smile "Darien will love to hear he’s been volunteered to serve as the bride’s father in a wedding e’ve never taken part in one before"

"I’m not certain Alicia’s any lanced at Peter, expecting news about the calls he made earlier

"I called about the autopsy The report on Ferdinand Massaro’s body showed no signs that he’d had intercourse prior to his death," Peter said "In other words, he couldn’t have raped Alicia shortly before he died"

Jake felt a little light-headed and sat down on one of the couches

"The triplets are yours," Toht you’d find your mate before me, as picky as you’ve always been And now you have a whole family on its way in record ti, too I mean, for any members of the pack"

"They’re lanced up at Peter, as s at him, too "You’re absolutely sure?"

Peter spread his hands in a way that said there was no other possibility

"I’ve got to get cribs and all that stuff Everything that Lelandi’s been stocking up for her babies when they’re born" Jake had thought all her purchases and the way she’d been stressing over the upco event had been unnecessary That half of the stuff she’d bought was not even needed

But noas rethinking his position Nohen he had his own triplets on the way He rose to his feet, wondering why he was sitting around when he had soto be here for severalih is, don’t ers through his hair, ignoring his brother’s teasing, and then took a deep, steadying breath Hell, now he had to get s

Peter said, "The other news is that I had some men check out Danny’s place You should have seen the way he rigged up the place Strands of hair stuck to drawers in the event anyone opened theun in a desk drawer and so that we sent to the Feds--in a surreptitious way They’ll probably get a search warrant and nail the bastard"

"He’s not a wolf?" Jake asked, surprised If Ferdinand Massaro had been and Mario ht for sure Danny was But Peter wouldn’t have sent the Feds incri evidence if Danny had been a wolf

"Nope And no wolves had been in the house So unless soo to prison--for as long as he should live"