Chapter 36

Niklaus:

It’s been a month since I’ve proposed to Kiara and today was our wedding day.

“Klaus! We need to get ready; the guests will be here any minute and I’m not even dressed yet” Kiara said looking at me. I laughed and the maids smiled at us being happy seeing the two of us finally becoming one another’s official. Today was our big day, my beauty was to become my queen.

If you are wondering what happened to Kiara’s mother. We had decided to let the subject slide after having Ian see if it were true what was happening. As it turns out, Lorenzo and Giovanni were tricked into thinking that the queen was locked. King Louis had somehow found out that the two men were my soldiers. I didn’t know how he found out, I have tried finding out how the king was finding out about things, but I was certain that he had someone behind him.

“We will be getting ready princess. Don’t worry, the guests will be waiting for you to come whenever you wish to come out. You’re the bride, there is technically no wedding without you” I said wrapping my arms around her waist and she laughed as I leaned in to kiss her neck. She looked into my eyes when I pulled away, her makeup was already done, her hair done too, all she had to was wear her dress. I was already wearing my suit, everything was ready before Kiara comes out. I wanted her to relax and not worry about anything. I was to take care of everything else. It was bad enough that her father wasn’t going to attend the wedding, we had decided not to invite him. However, I knew that every girl would have wanted to have her father to be by her side on her big day. She couldn’t have him by her side as she knew that he was doing everything in his power to separate the two of us.

“I’ll see you in a bit princess”

I smiled and kissed her neck once again before nodding at the two maids who bowed to me before going to help my beauty get ready. Lorenzo and Giovanni both bowed at me and I nodded at them to come and follow me, everything was fighting against us.

“Is everything ready?” I asked Lorenzo who nodded at me.

“Everything is ready and set as you and the princess asked to prepare,” Lorenzo said and I nodded looking around. Flowers were sent everywhere in the palace. White flower petals were spread everywhere on the floor of the palace in the path that my sweet princess was going to be taking. Her crown was ready for her for the coronation of her becoming a queen. She would be crowned queen after she and I were announced, husband and wife. Ian was going to walk my beauty down the aisle and Grace was her maid of honor. She didn’t trust anyone else with the duty to be by her side, and Grace has taken the role of the sister that she never had. I couldn’t be more thankful for my sister and what she’s done for my wife’s sake.

Had it not been Grace, there were so many things that would have been different for Kiara’s sake. One of them being her growing as strong as she was now. Yes, I did help my mate in gaining strength and training her, but Grace was the one guiding her through most of the things in the kingdom. Showing her that even though she was a princess, she could be strong, that she was to be a queen one day didn’t mean that she would be miserable or weak. No, her being a queen meant that she would be strong that she would be where the people went when they needed something when they needed guidance or help. She was to be their home when no one was. Grace had taught her that when she saw how much her family broke her when she first arrived at the kingdom.

“Where is Prince Ian?”

“He’s waiting for you before going to the princess’s chamber to pick her up,” Giovanni said answering me and I nodded. I couldn’t describe how excited and nervous I was. Knowing that my beauty has accepted me as her mate, how far we had gotten since we first met. Yes, she didn’t know me for tens of years, but she trusted me, she trusted that I wouldn’t hurt her as everyone had around her.

I walked to Ian who was waiting for a signal to go and pick up my mate. He had offered to be the one to walk her down the aisle when he found out that she wouldn’t be calling her father to attend the wedding not wanting her to walk it on her own as he knew what this night meant to every female.

“Need any help?” Ian asked in a teasing manner and I chuckled shaking my head at him. He smiled and wrapped his arms around me hugging me tightly. He knew how much I’d been waiting for this. I had watched my beauty grow in front of my eyes waiting for the day she came to age for me to marry her. Feeling her as my mate when she was barely a fetus inside her mother’s womb, the need to protect the queen who was carrying my future wife, my sweet beauty didn’t know how much I’ve waited for her to be officially mine. The night I claimed her as mine was all I could ever ask for and more, knowing that she willingly gave me herself, that she trusted me with herself. The love I felt for the woman was endless.

“Not at all, thank you for doing this for Kiara,” I said thank my younger brother, he smiled. His blue eyes met my own as he put his hand in the back of my neck and pressed my forehead against his.

“You are my big brother, you’ve been by my side through everything. This is the least I could do” Ian said smiling “she is my sister. She and Grace are alike in my eyes”

I smiled and hugged my brother once again before pulling away and heading toward the door to greet the guests who were just arriving at the garden, I smiled at them as they bowed to me. I nodded at them to rise. A few guests came to congratulate me on the big day. Aiden flew by my side and I smiled, the people’s eyes widened at the sight of the dragon, but I didn’t care. I pat the dragon’s head and scratched his ear before he shrank himself to stand on my shoulder looking at the people who were around us.

“I see you’ve mastered this new skill,” I said looking at Aiden who purred excitedly.

“Yes, I’ve been practicing it for a while,” Aiden said in a low voice not wanting the people around us to hear him. He didn’t want anyone to know of his species, being the last of his kind. Knowing that his mother was killed, that Verone’s dragon was the one ruling in Aiden’s place, his life was in danger until the little dragon could fend himself “I can also grow to double my size”

“I believe Kiara doesn’t know of this?” I smirked and Aiden purred making me chuckle. If Kiara knew of this, she would have told me. None of us knew of this, he had been practicing without us knowing when he went for his hunts which he’s been doing on his own lately.

“I have been using it to hunt the little preys, they see me as small as they are and think that its safe, then I grow to their size and attack them,” Aiden said and I laughed shaking my head before Lorenzo nodded at me signaling that Kiara was on her way to the garden, the music started playing indicating for everyone to take a seat as the bride was on her way.

Aiden stayed on my shoulder, Grace smiled at me standing on Kiara’s side waiting for her to be her maid of honor, I stood there waiting for my princess to arrive. Flower petals were being thrown everywhere to guide my beauty to where she was going to walk, I knew that she loved the smell of roses and lilies and I made sure that their aura surrounded us, the orchids were in the vases spread on every table and every corner.

Kiara appeared in the distance, she and Ian were smiling, I could hear her racing heart as she walked, her face wasn’t covered by a veil, she didn’t want to wear one. Her white dress hugged her breasts and waist and loosened around her hips, flowers were covering her waist where the belt was. The flower bouquet she carried was a mixture between white and pink roses and jasmine, I chose the bouquet for her sending it to her bedroom as a surprise. Her makeup was natural, simply making her skin glow rather than changing her features knowing that I love the natural look on her. Her hair was curled neatly, and a crystal tiara was on her head.

She reached me and I smiled taking her hand before Ian stood beside me and I pulled my wife to me, cupping her cheeks and kissing her forehead. She smiled at me and I could feel her cheeks heat up as she blushed, her heart was still racing.

“Relax my beauty,” I said in her mind making her bite her bottom lip as her smile widened. I couldn’t help the smile that formed on my face as I counted the minutes separating the two of us from becoming husband and wife. The people sat down waiting for the ceremony to begin and my own heart raced as we both looked into one another’s eyes. The words ‘I do’ said from the two of us had me smiling and cupping her cheeks as I kissed her. The people cheered on and my wife’s hands went to my torso, smiling into the kiss, I rested my forehead against hers.

“ALL HAIL KING NIKLAUS AND QUEEN KIARA” Ian announced and Kiara’s eyes widened being addressed as queen for the first time. Grace walked toward Kiara with her new crown. I had it designed for her, it was a new one made specifically for her.

Kiara bowed to me and Grace handed me the crown before she took off my wife’s tiara for me to put the crown on the crown of her head. She bit her bottom lip keeping her head down as I put the crown on her head before she rose to look at me, I smiled and cupped her cheeks and kissed her forehead. She took my hand in hers and kneeled to kiss my knuckles but I removed my hand from hers and took both her hands in mine and kneeled kissing both her knuckles. The people cheered and ‘awes’ could be heard all around us making both my queen and I smile as we looked into one another’s eyes.

It wasn’t until we heard a clap that was different from all the others. That forced everyone to stop clapping as the sound of the clap sounded slow, the steps could be heard as the claps got louder meaning that the person was getting closer. Both Kiara and I turned to see who was there, my hand was in mine and our fingers intertwined.

“Congratulations to the new bride, and groom”

King Leonardo’s eyes met mine and his eyebrow was raised as he looked at both me and Kiara, however that wasn’t what annoyed me. Behind Leonardo stood Prince Caspian, and King Verone…