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however white lace kept her modestly covered. Similar lace also adorned the cuffs and trim of the dress.
    Once his sister and sister-in-law were nearly upon him he was able to view his bride. She looked beautiful and had he been her lover his heart might have leapt at the sight of her. She looked feminine and innocent or she would have if her belly hadn't protruded outward clearly signaling the life within her. Once his eyes were drawn to her middle it was hard to bring them back up to appreciate any other feature she had.
    She stopped next to him before the priest. She looked as serious as he was. There was no hint of a blushing bride on her face.
    "Dearly beloved, we are gathered together here in the sight of God..."
    Nathaniel's eyes passed over the chapel as the priest droned on about how the union of man and wife was like the union of Christ and the church.
    He had never considered himself particularly pious. The chapel had been on the land for generations and likely as not more for show than actual worship. He wondered how many werewolves were also piously religious. Some must be as their priest was a werewolf and not the only one either. In fact, there was a special monastery that the priest retreated to during the three days of the moon where turning was inevitable. It was secluded and confined or so the priest had told him when he had asked. It was nothing like the country home where Nathaniel and the werewolves on their land went. The land was actually in Scotland and they shared it with several English and Scottish packs. They had been doing so for generations and continued as long as their nations were not at war.
    The priest talked about poor marriages and wrong reasons to marry. Nathaniel certainly was not marrying lightly or to satisfy his own lusts. The child in this woman might be a werewolf and the pack could not afford to lose one of their own. It was nothing beyond that. Sophronia was pretty enough but not a woman he thought he could feel lustful towards. Even if she had not been heavy with a child, she was not the type of woman he favored. She was not Vivian.
    "...the causes for which matrimony is ordained. First it was ordained for the procreation of children..."
    He supposed that after this babe was born he would be expected to fill her with another and then another. Each child would be born with only a dice rolls chance of being a werewolf. If he had married Vivian, or any other she-wolf, then their children almost certainly would have been born were-kind. If he wanted white dogs he didn't breed a white sire with a black bitch. Yet, his father had said the marriage to Sophronia was, at least partially, to keep the pack from losing a were-child. Had his father forced them to risk losing the were-gift on the rest of the children he and the chit might have?
    "...secondly, it was ordained for a remedy against sin, and to avoid fornication..."
    Nathaniel glanced at his brother whose head was bowed beside him and whose eyes were closed. Was his brother in an inebriated stupor or was he feeling sorry for the sin of fornication he had committed that had gotten them in this mess to begin with?
    Eldon had a wife. He needed only to wait another few months to quench his lust with her but instead he had chosen to bed Sophronia instead of waiting for Claire. Had Claire really held out her innocence until the wedding or had she given herself to his brother before but Eldon had still needed to lust after other chits?
    "...thirdly, it was ordained for the mutual society, help, and comfort that the one ought to have the other..."
    How could he and Sophronia expect to help and comfort each other for the rest of their lives when they were mere strangers? One night of his brother's poor judgment had led his father to choose a woman to be his comfort until death.
    "Wilt thou have this woman to be thy wedded wife, to live together after God's ordinance in the holy estate of matrimony..."
    It was the moment. His last moment on