SKYLAR
The Avery women, of which I am now one, are crazy, especially nonna. They dragged me off back into the house as soon as the ceremony was over and I was still in semi shock. I had no idea what was about to transpire, maybe some motherly advice but no. I was taken into a room with a vault and safes from which Olivia proceeded to remove trays upon trays of jewelry.
"These were set aside for Talon's bride." She said as she fought back tears. There was literally millions of dollars worth of gems laid out on the table.
"I can't take that, that's not mine...." I felt my legs start to tremble, was she insane, this had to be a joke right?
"Of course it is dear, now come along and let's see which pieces need resetting and what not, some of this mess is as old as dirt." Nonna was perusing the pieces fondly.
"Oh mother it is not, maybe a few hundred years old at least but not much more than that." Olivia chided her mother in law.
"A few..." I started to back up towards the door but Bianca and Kinsley blocked my exit.
"I told you she was a runner." Bianca smirked.
"Did they do this to you?" I half whispered to her.
Kinsley snorted at that which earned her an elbow jab from Bianca.
"She wore half of hers to the wedding, couldn't wait. Can't you tell she's a jewelry hog?"
"Hey watch it, I seem to recall you wearing enough diamonds to choke a horse at your wedding."
"Yes and if my grandson had any manners or patience you would've been wearing yours on your special day as well Skylar but this will work just as well. Now come along dear, we haven't got all night and I'm sure your husband will be here to drag you off any second now."
She shared a sly smile with Olivia before turning back to me.
"Who knows maybe before long we might hear the pitter patter of little feet around here, please let it happen before I get too old to run around behind it."
She's incorrigible but you gotta love her, still, this was all too much. First the rushed wedding that I'm still not sure how they pulled it off; these people were a bit scary with the power they wielded. I mean I think the guy who married us was a judge and not just any judge, like one of the highest in the land. But they just called him up like it was nothing on Thanksgiving no less and he dropped everything and came running.
The truth is that didn't scare me as much as it helped to assuage some of my anxiety over the Starks. I can't believe my dad. When Talon and I spoke to him before he said there was nothing to worry about. I guess he lied or he thought he could fix the situation; and how William could think that I would want to marry his philandering son after everything that had happened was just preposterous. I was beginning to think I'd never really known any of these people including my dad.
TALON
They'd been gone long enough, whatever hoodoo they had going on should be done by now, I was missing my girl, besides I had a union to consummate. Shit I wonder if we had time to take a few days somewhere for a honeymoon. No, better not, let me deal with the bullshit first and then we could think about going away somewhere together.