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“Hurry, Eleanor,” Alyssa said, tugging on her wrist “You’ll see Reg in less than an hour, and then you have a whole lifetiet you dressed and your hair fixed”
“Just a o anywhere,” she said to Reece
“I’ll be right here,” he promised
Forcing the feeling of dread down her throat, she turned and went into the roo her reown Lara sat on the vanity bench and a lets around the headpiece of her veil Eleanor was a lovely bride Lara’s eyeswo Lara wondered if it was sos for Reece As soon as her thoughts drifted to thejust outside the door, her heart raced and butterflies filled her sto aruy
The faint huown made Lara’s heart skip a beat
“The ao!” she said to theher hair
“Don’t move I am almost finished”
“You don’t understand I have to go, right now”
Alyssa appeared behind her “Are you going to be sick?”
The hu louder Her stoh It was ti a lock of hair from her scalp in the process She was too terrified to feel much pain The maid made a sound of impatience, but Lara was already halfway to the door
“Reg!” she called
The door opened immediately He’d kept his word
“Is it the amulet?”
She nodded, colliding with his chest and reveling in the comfort his embrace provided Reece stumbled back into the corridor, but did not release her froht hold
“Alo”
“Say the chant now, before he gets here,” she pleaded
Reece shook his head “That won’t work Both pieces of the amulet have to be near each other for the until he arrives”
She looked up at hi the amulet in her fist “Hold onto it, in any case Get ready”
“Are you afraid?”
She nodded
He kissed her brow and enclosed her hand in his “I won’t let him take you from me, Lara That’s a promise He will never take you from me”
She nodded again, wanting to believe his words, but her fight or flight nervous systerew increot froht be sick
“I want to see you in a dress like this again so down the aisle towards me”
She couldn’t understand how he could be so calm
“You make a beautiful bride, Lara”
There was a loud crackle followed by a crash in a roohter
“Where are they?” Carl’s voice bellowed “God damn it, I asked you a question”
Sir Clayton’s bedrooed out of the rooe flickered to Carl’s and then back to Sir Clayton’s