Epilogue
LYDIA- ONE YEAR LATER
The wedding happens at midnight. When the full moon sits high in the sky making the light fog shimmer as it rolls across the ground in lazy swirls. It’s the perfect setting to say our vows.
My dress is as dark as night, dipping low in the front to show off my cleavage in a tasteful but seductive way.
The material glitters with a thousand tiny hand stitched silver gems, and my veil cascades over my bare shoulders trailing behind me in a sea of black lace.
My hair is curled in soft waves that frame my face, and my friends helped put on my makeup to give me that perfect glam bride vibe I’ve always wanted.
They’re each wearing a blue bridesmaid dress that gives Greek Goddess vibes.
Audrey has taken the role of Maid of Honor, making sure everything goes off without a hitch.
With my transformation into vampire form I feel like I’m finally at home in my own skin. There’s always been a part of me that felt as if it were missing. A part that felt out of step with everyone else.
I don’t feel that way anymore.
I feel treasured and whole. And completely head over heels in love with my soulmates.
Olivia’s two girls head down the aisle first, tossing chunks of red rose petals along the forest floor. They join their mom who’s sitting next to Phantom and Matchbox, while she looks up at Talon. He’s agreed to officiate our wedding, though he grumbled plenty about it when we asked.
Each one of my friends descends down the makeshift aisle in the middle of the forest as fairy lights twinkle above. I take this moment to steady my nerves.
My bouquet of calla lilies is clutched in my hands acting as the perfect talisman to channel all my anxieties into.
I’m not nervous about the wedding or about saying yes to these two vampires that have claimed my heart.
I’m nervous that I’ll find a way to trip in front of all our guests.
While I’ve shed many parts of myself in my transition, my clumsiness is something that still clings to me no matter what.
It’s nice to know some things don’t change.
The music swells and our guests rise. That’s my cue to step out of the shadows, and I do to a collective gasp of awe once they see me.
I’m smiling like an idiot the moment my gaze catches the three grooms waiting for me at the end of the aisle.
All three are dressed in matching tuxedos, looking as devastatingly handsome as the day I met them.
Maverick shoves his hands in his pockets and smiles at me wide, while Hendricks fiddles with his cuffs looking nervous and excited. He has his fangs digging into his bottom lip where his lip ring sits prominently in the center.
Jack is looking stoic, but I can see from here that his eyes are glassy, like he’s trying hard not to cry. I almost start blubbering right then because I’m so damn happy.
It’s too bad vampires don’t photograph, because I would have loved to look at this moment over and over again. The two of them seeing me walk towards them. I do my best to commit it to memory, while concentrating on my steps.
Once I make it to the altar, Talon clears his throat and motions for our guests to sit.
They do and I stare at my soon to be husbands feeling my stomach clench in anticipation.
This is really happening. I’m about to be their wife.
And they’re going to be my husbands. After everything we went through to get to this moment, I can hardly believe it’s actually here.
That I get to have my happily ever after.
I’m so caught up in the moment that I don’t hear Talon ask me if I take my husbands.
“Wait, what?” I ask, blinking hard like I’m coming out of a trance.
Our guests chuckle and I sheepishly turn my attention to Talon so I can repeat the words.
“I take thee Maverick, Hendricks, and Jack, to be my monstrously devoted husbands. Until death parts us.”
They each say their vows back to me and place a silver ring, one on top of the other, onto my ring finger. The three rings fit together seamlessly like puzzle pieces. We had them made so that I could have one to represent each of my husbands, based on the original ring Maverick first gave me.
Then Maverick and Hendricks make a vow to each other. And Jack watches on with a smile as they commit to each other.
I place a ring on each of my new husband’s fingers, then before I know it, Talon is saying you may kiss the bride.
Maverick grabs me first, dipping me in his arms and landing an all-consuming kiss that marks me as his.
When he tilts me back up, my head is swimming.
But then Hendricks is there, patiently waiting his turn with a smile on his face.
He turns me in his arms, twirling me so that my dress fans out before bringing me in against his chest. He tilts my head by cupping my jaw taking a moment to study my face before his mouth meets mine.
The kiss is soft, but passionate. Just like Hendricks.
Jack is the last to take me into his arms.
“Hello, wife,” he says before leaning down and taking my mouth with his. He tilts me slightly, gripping the back of my head as his tongue sweeps into my mouth. When I open my eyes, I’m lost in the way he looks at me with such love that I feel it all the way to my toes.
Then Hendricks and Maverick kiss and I look on with tears in my eyes. The love I have for my husbands is unmatched.
There’s a cacophony of applause that erupts around us as we’re declared, husbands and wife.
We run down the aisle, and I toss my bouquet over my shoulder.
Iris catches it and I don’t miss the way she immediately looks at McKenzie.
I wink at them, and they smile back at me.
Faye lets out a loud whistle and Audrey and Stephanie dab at their eyes.
The fact that even after I transformed into a vampire and they still showed up for me and are still my friend means the fucking world to me.
I love those girls with my whole soul and I’m grateful to know them.
Jack gathers me into his arms, picking me up as we reach the end of the aisle and we leave our wedding to the sound of applause and cheers.
After our party where we dance until dawn, they take me to our brand-new cabin, made just for us.
Jack carries me over the threshold and into our married life.
He sets me down and I take in my surroundings.
The high ceilings and expansive open floor layout is just what I pictured.
They even made sure to have my own library that’s stacked with all my favorite books and a rolling ladder.
I can’t wait to start making a lifetime of memories here with my husbands. My monsters. My soulmates.
Nightmare Acres might have started out as a silly vacation idea, but now it’s become the place I don’t ever want to leave. It’s a place I found myself in the midst of chaos and fell in love along the way.
“Is it everything you wanted?” Maverick asks.
“It’s everything and more,” I answer with a smile on my face.
“Now how about we show you the perfect wedding night,” Hendricks says, spinning me into him.
I laugh. “Lead the way. I want to be shaking so hard from how much you three make me come.”
“Challenge accepted,” Maverick says, picking me up over his shoulder as he carries me off to our massive bed.
I never considered myself a lucky person, but now looking at my life, I feel like the luckiest bitch, and I wouldn’t change it for anything in the world.
The End.