The Assassin's Underworld (Book Three)

Chapter 22- Ryia

The wedding was tomorrow and everyone, including me was stressing. It had only recently hit me that I've never been to a wedding before so as everyone else at least new what it looked like I was abso-bloody-lutely clueless. Taking a deep breathe I practiced the wedding with everyone else and I swear the more I thought about it the more nervous I got. I wanted to make sure Alexandria had the best day of her life.

I was worried though and no matter what I did the feeling of dread wouldn't disapear. Almost every hour I would constantly check on Alexandria, making sure she was ok making sure that not even the slightest thing could bother her, Rowan was also verry nervous though I think out reasons were completely different.

Aaron has been nervously pacing the castle most of the day looking quite lost but also the happiest I've ever seen him. One thing in this mess was for sure, Aaron and Alexandria love eachother more than I've ever seen anyone more in love than the two of them. No matter how nervous I got the fact that Alexandria was marring Aaron, the sweetest most inocent guy I've ever met was really comforting to me.

The closer the wedding got the more nervous I became. What is something bad happened? What if Simon found his way here and ruined the whole thing? What if I somehow trip on the isle and cause Alexandria to trip over me? I took a deep breathe and reminded myself that I needed to calm down. At one point in the day Alexandria had asked me to sit down and breath.

She laughed and joked about how if I was this nervous for her wedding then she was worried that I might die of nerves before my own. For a moment I was confused until I realised that she actually thought I would be married one day, a thought that was down right proposturous to me. Most of the time I'm sure I'll die before age even has the time to wrinkle my skin.

Guests had started arriving this morning and now it seemed that all the spare rooms in the entire castle had been used up. Smiles were exchanged and strangers acted as though they were best freinds. The thought made me feel strange in the pit of my stomach. I felt even more strange when I noticed that barely concealed behind their smiles was a tense hostilty.

No one seemed to pick up on this fact they all acted as if it were completely normal. Then it hit me this must be completely normal for them. So much falsities swarmed through all of the royals and aristocrasts it made me uneasy. At least with assassin's if they didn't like you they would just kill you and be done with it, all the upper class posh folk take their time and stabbed you in the back when their done.

Without noticing I found myself wondering out to the gardens while Niamh was being fitted in her flower girl dress. I was so lost in thought that I ran straight into Leo. I nearly fell over, but Leo caught me, his arms wrapping neatly arround my waist. "Whoa, there you ok Ryia?" Leo asked a small smirk crossed his face as I noticed his arms were still wrapped around me.

"I'm well thanks" I said slowly looking up at him carefully through my eye lashes. We stood there for a while starring into eachother's eyes. My stomach fluttered and my heart pounded. His amber eyes suddenly flecked with gold, how had I never noticed that before, starred darringly into my soul. Recently Leo seems like the only person I don't have to be careful around, the only one I can be myself around.

Leo leaned down to my ear and whispered "I want to try something". A shiver rolled pleasently down my spine as his lips brushed my ear. Looking into my eyes for a moment longer Leo brought his head down. His lips crashed against my own. My reaction was immediate and strangly instictive, I brought my hands up to his head to pull him closer. His silky brown locks curled around my fingers as I kissed him desperatly as he were the only thing that mattered.

It all felt so right. The way his strong, lean arms held my comfortingly while pulling me in. The way he smiled against my mouth as I kissed him desperately. When we pulled away I couldn't help but feel light headed as I struggled to catch my breathe my mind still drowning in the joy of finally kissing him, and the thing was I never even realized how much I wanted to.

A smile was placed bright and beautiful upon his lips and I couldn't help but feel the erge to kiss him just one more time. "Well you sure pack one hell of a punch darrling" Leo said still slightly winded but refusing to let go of my waist. "Oh really" I said smirking as pulled him down to another kiss.

We sat like that for a while exchanging conversations and kisses and suddenly all the worring from earlier disapated. Nothing had ever felt so right and real in my life I couldn't help but cling to him as I rested against his chest and we watched the sun set. "You know I've been tying to get you to kiss me from the moment I layed my eyes on you" Leo said smoothing a strand of my hair between his fingers.

Looking at him my eyes widened it had been nearly two years since we met. A smile spread across my face and I looked up at him and said "how patient you must have been". We laughed and soon enough night fell and we both headed to our rooms. Even though he wasn't with me the thought of him being near brought a smile to my face.

Carefully I tucked Niamh in exchanging goodnights. I then got into my night gown and tucked myself in. The last image in my head before I fell to sleep was of Leo's beautiful smiling face. How lucky am I?