Skulduggery Pleasant: Raising Cain

Chapter 191 - Stan Nadia

Chapter 191

"Ready for our date?" Valkyrie asked, kissing Nadia carefully on the lips.

Her fiancée was wearing a sheath dress in a lovely nude-pink colour that complimented her warm brown skin and dark locks of hair which she had curled to a gorgeous, gentle wave that made her look incredibly sophisticated and womanly. The dress itself, other than being a delightful colour, hugged her from its capped sleeves on her dainty, slightly toned arms, over her pert breasts, tucked in at her little waist, back out at her hips, and then fell to just above her knees. She had chosen very small white heals and her big, white puffy winter coat. The coat didn't quite match but considering the four inches of snow and ice they had to get through, it would at least help keep Nadia warm. Then again, her bare legs might see that she wasn't warm at all.

Nadia smiled up at Valkyrie, reaching up and resting her hands on Valkyrie's shoulders. Her ring glinted in the light, which Valkyrie now noticed she had paired with some beautiful diamond earrings Valkyrie may or may not have bought for her for her fifteenth birthday, but she honestly couldn't remember around all the other gifts. Her makeup was pretty too, very light and shimmery to go with the subtle threads of silver sparkle running through her dress. Her eyes looked even bigger and prettier with the mascara and eyeliner too, and Valkyrie enjoyed that.

"I think so, I just need my bag," Nadia smiled, leaning her head up for another kiss Valkyrie happily gave her. "I wasn't expecting you to wear a suit."

Valkyrie smiled, trying very hard to not immediately move to straighten the jacket like a certain man would do. "Well, I thought I would change it up. Plus I don't have any dresses and didn't want to go shopping."

"But you had time to find a whole tux, huh?" Nadia raised an eyebrow.

"Half a tux," Valkyrie smirked. "I borrowed the rest from Skulduggery."

Nadia smiled. "It looks good on you. Better than him, I dare say."

Valkyrie was grinning now, their bodies pressed together how she liked it. "Don't let him hear you say that. It looks really good though, doesn't it? I already had trousers, it turns out me and Solomon have the same shoe size, and Ghastly had made me a suit jacket for a formal a while ago but I refused to wear it so he didn't finish the whole look. The rest is from Skulduggery's house."

"And your hair looks good," Nadia complimented. Valkyrie had styled it, for almost an hour before she even had any clothes on, to sweep back into a knot at the back. Her whole look was somewhere between masculine and androgynous, mainly due to the painted fingernails and her own makeup that had accidently complimented Nadia's. But Valkyrie was coming around to the look. She still preferred ballgowns and getting a chance to dress up feminine, but she also liked the tux a lot. Plus the bow tie was really cute. Something about looking so different to how she usually did was appealing. "Let me grab my phone and we'll go."

They called out a goodbye to Aine, who saw them for a moment to say how lovely they looked and to wave them out, and then Valkyrie drove them to the cocktail party China had gotten Valkyrie tickets for. They were absolutely gate crashing, but they wouldn't be denied as China had requested for the two of them to be her personal guests.

Valkyrie parked Nadia's car in the racecourse car park and hopped around the car to help Nadia out like a good fiancée, before locking up and making their way over. Valkyrie had to physically pick Nadia up for a part of it and carry her over big patches of ice in the road, thankfully resulting in neither of them falling over.

"Cain and Robin," Valkyrie told the man at the door in his fancy red suit.

He looked up at Valkyrie in surprise, then looked her up and down. "Um, I'll need a form of identification, ma'am." Valkyrie raised an eyebrow but got out her real – sort of – I.D. to be briefly looked at and then returned to her. "Thank you, Miss Cain. Have a wonderful night. Someone will take your coat just inside the door, Miss Robin."