Diabolus: The Lost Phoenix

Chapter Twenty

BEVERLY GREENE

"You're probably the most beautiful and the most shocked bride I've ever seen in my life."

I feel Avery's fingers carefully drawing through my neck as she takes a strand of my hair to brush it and curl it. Making me look beautiful, more than ever, but something inside me still keeps me anxious.

Is it a right thing to do?

Is it a right thing to get married?

All of my thoughts have the potential to grow toxic, but my fears are born hungry. It's not the fear that I used to have a year ago, I'm not afraid for myself, that something will happen to me; I feel strong enough to protect myself. I'm worried about others, Avery and

Maileen, mostly, because we don't know what will happen next. What Caden's next move is going to be, and how it will affect us. What if he already knows where we are and he's planning to do something bad?

I know Kai loves me more than life itself, and my heart belongs only to him. But we really shouldn't be getting married at this point, when Yellow Eye can strike at any point. When we don't know what's written in the script. When we don't know our next move, and also, his. Because Avery clearly knows that it will be bad, and probably someone will die. Is it okay to relax and have fun with all these bad things happening around us?

I know why Kai is doing this, I know him too well. He wants us all to have a moment of happiness during these days, and I love him even more for everything that he's doing. I want to become his wife, there's no doubt about it. I have to relax and enjoy this wonderful day, that I was dreaming of. And Kai did everything for my dreams to come true.

"Hey, are you okay?"

I haven't noticed Avery's frowning face, frowning from concern. She looks at me through the mirror; I am a bride, a sad, worried bride, who shouldn't look like this. Not only this situation got me anxious - I am getting married. I'm going to walk to the isle, to say the vows to a person that I'm going to spend the rest of my life with... and I don't even know what I'm about to say.

"Yes, I just... I don't have my wedding vows ready."

"You want to talk about it? I mean, of course I'm not the best person to talk about wedding vows, I was locked from life for thirteen years, but..."

"I think you're the best person to talk about anything."

She looks back up at me; a gentle flush of pink had arose in her cheeks that made her look vulnerable. Avery wrapped another strand of my hair around the curling iron and gave me a smile, just as honest as she is herself.

"I know this was a surprise and you don't have your vows yet, but I believe you'll figure them out. Listen to your heart and it will come to you, because there's no one that can't see true love in your and Kai's eyes."

"Probably you're right..."

Her words touch deep, making me realize her every word is true. After all, it's Kai we're talking about. The man that is, was and will be my salvation, my safe place. The man that I would die for, the man that keeps me happy when it feels like the world is falling apart. There's no doubt that I want to marry him; a man that I'm in love with.

Isn't it funny, that if my father had made a different decision I wouldn't be here now? If he hadn't put a signature on that paper Morado's gave him, my fate would've been written in different ink. Because I would be sitting here, in a different universe, without Kai by my side, I would have never become complete.

"It's like a dream come true."

And as I take a glance at her again, I remember her, in my dreams; looking just the same as she looks right now. Her voice is exactly the same, and she is the light like I thought she is after the first time I saw her. But I never asked her, and neither she was talking about it.