A Vampire's Life Book 5

Chapter 27

We had organised everything with record speed. Bertie had always kept the garden immaculate in the hope that one day he would be rewarded with a garden wedding. He beamed pure pride when we told him that we were in fact going to have a garden wedding, the guests would walk through the formal garden to the grassed area where the wedding would be held. It was intended for the children's play area but now it was going to be something far more special. Jonah had taken the news about how a phoenix breeds rather well. I thought that until I found a calendar on his computer that was counting down the years, months and days until his fiftieth birthday. When I confronted him about it, he told me not to bother planning a birthday party because no one wanted to see what he was planning to do for his birthday. It involved me, him and our bed.

Gaston had planned an amazing three course meal that would be a gastronomic delight in his opinion. I had left it for him to decide what was going to be served, he had an amazing sense of taste and was able to create food that tasted incredible. He had selected additional staff to assist him with the preparation and had even brought in someone to bake and decorate the cake.

The invitations had gone out; all the guests were confirmed. Well, Edmund hadn't apologised as yet, and therefore he had not been sent an invitation. Jonah was adamant that he would apologise to my family or miss out. His uncle had been sent one and had confirmed their attendance, so clearly Edmund hadn't tried to stop him or maybe Franklin had stood up to him too. Franklin was about three hundred years old, I wasn't really sure and hadn't asked him. But he and Terrance were like chalk and cheese, they might have been brothers but they were nothing alike. And that was why it was likely that Franklin had stood up to Edmund. Terrance might fight with his father about things, but in the end he would always cave, relenting to the dominating nature of his father.

The Friday night before our wedding had arrived and the place was pure bedlam. My parents had decided to stay for the weekend which meant that all of my siblings were here too. I would have let them have the entire second floor to rest in, except both of my maternal and paternal grandparents decided that they too would like to stay over. My grandparents on both sides had children that were too young to be left alone, so that was another three children to add to the list. Then Terrance and Miranda decided that they might like to stay too, the twins had tried to object but were shot down pretty fast by their mother. Nat and Elston thought it was a great idea to have a weekend party rather than one night. It started to get worse by the minute, the phone rang and Muriel answered it, in her flustered state she looked at us with a quivering lip.

"What's the matter?"

"Your highness, your Aunt Josephine is on the phone wanting to know if there is room to accommodate their family as well?"

"All of them?"

She nodded with a pained look. That meant another six adults because Jayden had a girlfriend now plus the two children that Josie and Ethan had recently had. I looked to Jonah wondering where we were going to put everyone. He took the phone and talked to his aunt. With one very large sigh he hung up the phone.

"Well?"

"Well my dear aunt is on her way here now with Evie and Jayden, she's spoken to Godfrey who apparently is taking great delight in our predicament."

"Great, being laughed at by the almighty."

"Anyway it has been suggested that we put up a new building."

"Where and how?" I frowned at him "How can you put up a building in less than twenty-four hours? The witches would need several days to bring something here."

"I do believe my dear aunt has a hidden trick up her sleeve." he grinned.

Ten minutes later the rock face cracked open, a silvery glow that shined bright. The three of them walked through the door engulfing us in hugs and kisses.