Free Chained To The Alpha: A Paranormal Shifter Romance Standalone by JJ Jones Page A

wounds. He was strong and powerful, able to carry me through my weak point. He promised to stay by me as we were left alone.
    “I’ll make sure that you get through this.”
    “Thank you.” I was starting to feel a bit overwhelmed. I struggled to find my way into the bed. “I think this has all been a bit too much.”
    “Before you go to sleep…” he let his question trail off.
    I knew what he was talking about and I already knew my answer. “Of course I will, just let me get some rest first.” I yawned.
    It wasn’t as romantic as I had dreamed about, but there it was. The decision was made. I vaguely remembered him running to the door and announcing the fact that I had said yes. He came back to the bed and carefully pulled the blanket back up over me as I faded into oblivion.
     
     

Epilogue
    I was nervous. In fact, I felt like I was about to puke as I looked at myself in the mirror. It wasn’t exactly how I had planned this as a little girl. I had planned to do everything in my power to stop this from happening when I was a child. I had hated the idea of going through this ceremony and now I felt my hands shaking as I looked forward to it. My life had changed so much over the past year as I thought back over it all.
    I was ready. I knew that I was ready for this. This was going to happen. Our ordeal had ended almost two weeks ago, but still I dreaded this. There was a knot in my stomach. We weren’t chained together any more, not physically at least, but I could still feel him. He was nervous too. I worked with my hair. It never worked right, but still I tried.
    “Damn it!” One of the ladies came up to help me. She was an older woman, a member of Devin’s pack.
    “It’s fine. It will be just fine. Everything’s going to be okay,” she crooned at me as she worked carefully through my hair. “We’ve all been through this.”
    “Where’s my sister?” She was the only family that I had left. I didn’t want her to miss this.
    “She’s outside, setting up. Do you want her in here?” The woman looked concerned, taking a stance that showed that she was afraid that I was going to bolt at any moment. I wasn’t going to run, but still that didn’t take away the fear that I was feeling. She continued to stare at me. “I can send someone to get her here.” It was a hastily made promise that I knew that she would keep.
    I felt like crying, but fought against the urge. “Please.”
    The woman working with my hair turned to another lady in the room. “Get her please.” There was an exchange of knowing nods as they ran out to get my sister, but I wasn’t really paying attention.
    “Fynna!” It was less than a minute later that I heard her voice calling my name.
    “Thank God you’re here.” I turned to my sister, destroying the work that the older lady had done with my hair. “I can’t do this. You have to get me out of here. What’s going on? This is so permanent. I can’t do this. I can’t do it.” I was starting to hyperventilate.”
    “You can do this. You want to do this, remember?” She reached up and touched my arm. “It’s going to be fine. You love him, remember?”
    “I know I love him, but is that enough?”
    “It was enough for you to give him a piece of your life.” She reminded me of something that I didn’t want to think about.
    I shuddered as I felt his mind. He was freaking out a bit too. He was close, that’s why I could feel him so strongly and the time that we had spent together planning our shifter wedding had been a nightmare to put together. At least, it had been until the local witch told us not to plan over everyone else’s free time, but to place this event when we wanted it. They could work around us. We had moved all of my stuff into Devin’s house over the past two days, and I knew that my stuff would be waiting for us. Tonight would be the first night that we officially lived together, even if we had spent several nights at each other’s houses.
    We