They Stole My Wedding to Save Her, Not Knowing They Were Sacrificing Me to the Mountain God Chapter 05

They Stole My Wedding to Save Her, Not Knowing They Were Sacrificing Me to the Mountain God Chapter 05

Nolan’s eyes flickered.

His voice went weak.

“Didn’t you say we could mess with her, Callum?”

“You already have Sienna. You can’t keep her sister too, right? We only touched her a little. It’s not like we

actually did anything.”

Callum punched him hard across the face.

“Didn’t I tell you Sienna was only standing in for the ceremony?” he roared.

“The only woman I was really going to marry was Elara.”

Then he froze, realization striking him. “Wait. Then the one who just left was…”

A terrible feeling rose in him.

He turned to my parents.

“You said the person they took was the Guardian’s Bride?”

my parents finally realized something was wrong.

They exchanged one look, and the panic in their eyes was impossible to hide.

“Go upstairs and find her,” Evelyn cried, her voice cracking. “Find her right now! It can’t be Elara. How could

the bride be Elara?”

The three of them abandoned Sienna and rushed upstairs.

For the third time that day, my bedroom door was forced open.

This time, the room was completely empty.

The few clothes I owned were gone.

On the messy bed lay a torn T-shirt.

Anyone could tell at a glance what I had gone through before leaving.

“No.”

The first scream came from Evelyn.

She shoved through the crowd and grabbed one of the Sutton men who was about to leave.

Her voice was hysterical, almost deranged.

“She is my daughter. Today was supposed to be her wedding. She can’t marry the Mountain Guardian. She

can’t.”

The boy merely pulled his arm free, his expression calm and indifferent.

“Mrs. Sutton, this was agreed upon from the beginning.”

“Elara was chosen years ago, but Patriarch Graham gave you a chance. As long as she married within these

three years, the covenant would not claim her.”

“Now the time is up. And you admitted yourselves that the bride today was not Elara, but your adopted

daughter.”

I took out my phone.

Calls kept coming in one after another.

If I declined one, another immediately appeared.

Some were from my parents.

Some were from Callum.

But I no longer had any interest in answering.

My heart was calmer than it had ever been.

I did not know how long the drive lasted.

Eventually, the SUV door opened.

Patriarch Graham and the others stepped out and stood on both sides.

Aunt Maeve held a black umbrella over me and led me onto the only wooden footbridge that crossed into the

mountains.

A fine rain fell the entire way.

At the end of the bridge, I saw a masked figure waiting in the shadows.

He reached out his hand to me.

“Are you my bride?”

I placed my hand in his and followed him into the deep forest.

The sky grew darker.

The path became harder to walk.

When we reached a steeper stretch and he noticed I was struggling, the man bent down in front of me.

b on.”

a little stunned.

this the Mountain Guardian everyone had taught me he to trar?

could he be so gentle?

bed onto his back and wrapped my arms around his nerieck The scent of him filled my senses, warm,

and clean like rain-soaked wood

nported my back carefully, as if afraid of crossing adindine.

teel uncomfortable, tell me.”

breed anything, you can tell me too. I’ve never spent time witwishwa woman before. You’re the first.”

foforce you to be my bride. We can get to know each otheit ferstr$ft.yk you think I’m all right, then we can

Aldeamanandron, awkward and earnest.

wvt stsotoothed away the unease inside me.

leblacknoecet at the rainy night behind us.

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