Chapter 7

The bond-severing ritual was originally scheduled to take place three hours before the wedding.

However, Emma insisted that William postpone it.

She wanted to enjoy her wedding day without having to share it with the unpleasantness of a bond-severing ceremony, plus she was anxious that it might run late and override with their ceremony schedule. Since William was determined to give her the wedding she wanted, he agreed.

Emma also asked him to do something for her.

“Emma wants you to be one of her bridesmaids,” William relayed to Hannah. He stood in front of her with his arms crossed,…