“Hello this is Red Roses, John speaking how can I help you?”

    “Yes, hi you call a Luna a few minutes ago!”

    “Luna….luna…aww yes for the sweet peas right?”

    “Yes sir”

    “Okay, well I can only get a dozen.” Crap not good.

    “Okay, well could you send those to Linda’s and do you know anyone else who can get some?” I crossed my fingers.

    “I might, hear I’ll give you her number”

    “Thanks” Grabbing a pen and pad I had by the coffee table.

    “Ask for Sara”

    “Okay thank you very much.”

    “Sure thing”

I sat down putting my head in my hands. Feeling a little defeat by these flowers. Matias walked around the corner.

    “Hey hon…. What’s wrong” Running to me. I lifting my head and smiled.

    “Nothing, ready?” He frowned, and hugged me.

    “Your lying I just know it, but if you don’t want to tell me its fine.” kissing my cheek.

    “Thank you” I smiled at him before standing up. Carefully watching me put on my boots and grab his keys.

    “Are you coming?” I asked waiting by the door, with everything I needed.

    “Of course” Getting up and coming my way. He looked at his keys in my hand, and smirked.

    “I take it you want to drive?” Folding his arms over his massive chest. I swallowed.

    “Yea” He sighed.

    “Very well” Grabbing a wind breaker as we headed out. It took us twenty minutes with light traffic to get to the bakery. Sam and Marlene were already there. Sam was thrilled when he saw Matias.

    “Ohh thank god, another dude” Man hugging him.

    “Oh quit it, you said you wanted to help.” Marlene grumbled and then flashed me a smile.

    “Yea, cause I wanted to eat free cake.” I rolled my eyes at him and opened the door.

    The smell of fresh baked breads, cookies and pies was over whelming and wonderful. Now if Matias had sent me an overload of this kind of smell, then yes I would totally of loved it more.

    “Hello, what can I do for you?” A good sized woman with blonde hair pulled into a bun was cleaning her hands off of extra dough. He bright brown eyes reminded me of chocolate chips.

    “Hello, were hear for a cake testing, under Marlene” I said before anyone could speak.

    “Ohh wonderful, I’ll be right back. Please have a seat anywhere.” Smiling and walking into the back.

    “She’s so nice” Marlene whispered. I nodded and sat down. Matias grabbed me before I could sit in my own seat and had me in his lap.

    “I can sit you know” Turning around to face him, he flashed me a sexy smile and held tighter. I looked back at Marlene who was grinning like a thief. Rolling my eyes the woman came back out and explained each flavor. What I got out of all of that was..

Chocolate Mousse, with double ganache glaze.

Carrot Cake, with a light cream cheese frosting.

Vanilla butter and a rich butter cream frosting.

Red Velvet with a cream cheese frosting

Cappuccino Mocha  and a dark chocolate butter cream.

Double Chocolate with chocolate better cream

There was also a lemon meringue and an orange cream cake. This was just the cake flavors and toppings, she also had some with fillings, such as strawberry, raspberry, lemon, chocolate fudge and coconut. I looked at the huge tray of mini sized cakes and felt myself become four times heavier. Good god I’m so gunna need a diet plan after this wedding.

    It was cute the way we all ate them. There was only two of each flavor so I would bit half and give the rest to Matias, Sam and Marlene did the same. I giggled a little when Matias pulled my finger in with the carrot cake and wrapped his tongue around.

    “You taste better” Whispering in my ear. I blushed and grabbed another one. The woman had given us a sheet, with the cakes and descriptions. We marked each one with a vote of how good it was.

    “What do you think Luna?” She asked giving Sam the last bite of carrot cake.

    “Umm, that depends”

    “On what?” Licking her fingers.

    “Well, if its in spring you would go anyway. The food you have for your wedding is lite so a heavy cake would be fine, or you could stick with the lite theme and get a softer cake.” Sam and her looked like they had seen a ghost.

    “Matias, you can’t have her. I would be so lost without her” Marlene grinned looking at him.

    “Sorry, you can only rent her. She’s mine” Squeezing me a little tighter. Not such a good idea, I tapped his hand and he loosened.

Sighing cause I thought he was gunna push the cake back up.

    “Well I like…that one” Sam said pointing to the Chocolate Mousse.

    “That’s because its chocolate” Marlene smiled. Sam loves his chocolate, and the richer the better.

    “Well you could mix it up a little” I said turning the sheet and looking it over.

    “How so?” Looking at the sheet with me.

    “Well if Sam liked the Chocolate one, there two on her to pick from. And since it will still be a little cool out you could do a lighter topping like that one.” Pointing to the Chocolate Better Cream, which is more of a whipped frosting.

    “It wont melt?” Sam asked.

    “Nope, it would if you were having your wedding in the summer time, its not temp controlled.” Smiling. I felt Matias turn his head so he could see me.

    “How do you know all of this?” He asked, baffled.

    “Ohh, cause when I worked at the food store, I was interested in becoming a cake decorator.” Rubbing the back of my neck and smiling like an idiot.

    “What do you think love?” Sam looked at Marlene, she tapped her finger to her lips.

    “I really did like the chocolate one, so what if we…get the Double chocolate with a strawberry filling and the white chocolate better cream top?” She looked at him, he looked thrilled.

    “Perfect...just like you” Kissing her. I giggled cause it was really hard seeing Sam act all lovie in public.

    “Great, not how big and what size?” Sam grinned and I could feel Matias doing the same.

    “Get your mind out of the gutter, you bad boys” Marlene slapped Sam, while I did Matias. They laughed, and my body shook a little with being on Matias’s lap and all.

    “Well I have about a hundred coming so?”

    “A hundred?” Sam looked like he was going to faint.

    “Yes, I told you this last week.” Ohh this does not sound good.

    “Okay, look that’s not bad” I chimed in, before Sam threw a damn fit and making Marlene all upset. I have been keeping her calm for the most part, and I’ll be damned if Sam is going to kill my winning streak in less then a second.

    “How so?” Sam sounded annoyed but looked at me.

    “Well a hundred really isn’t that big a deal anymore. Most weddings a hundred is small.” Shrugging my shoulders. Sam’s face lightened.

    “Really?” Wow men are so freaking slow.

    “Yea, my parented said that there wedding had over five hundred.” I felt Matias stiffen, ohh good grief man relax.

    “So how big does the cake need to be for a hundred?” Sam asked, now calmer.

    “Umm Well you’ll need to do a three layer. That should be plenty. You could do more if you like, but with the filling and all it will be a little bigger so I would go with a three layer.” Pointing to it on the sheet.

    “Does it matter what shape we pick?” Marlene asked this time.

    “Nope, you can do whatever you like. So its really just a style choice now” Turning the sheet so she could see the different shapes. She kept eyeing the round ones which didn’t surprise me.

    “I like this” she said pointing to it for Sam to see.

    “Me to” nodding. They looked back at me.

    “Okay hand me the fill out sheet and I’ll write everything in.” Sam handed me the paper, and I started filling it out.

Cake Flavor: Double Chocolate

Filling: Strawberry

Frosting: White Chocolate

Shape: Round

Layers: 3

Flowers:

I paused.

    “Marlene?”

    “Yes”

    “Do you want flowers on the cake?”

    “Umm I guess so, if she can match the ones we’ll have at the wedding.

    Okay

Flowers: Orange sweet peas, and calla lilies.

Topper:

Crap.

“Marlene?”

    “haha yea”

    “Topper?” She looked blankly at me.

    “I don’t have a clue”

    “You could just do a flower piece in sugar flowers, there really pretty.” looking around for an example.

    “Like that one” Pointing behind her, to the bright yellow lilies and small purple like flowers sitting on the top of a cake.

    “Ohh I like that” She smiled.

    “Okay so sugar flowers on top.

At this point the woman came back around and cleared the table for us.

    “So what have you decided on?” She smiled at us. I handed her the sheet and tray it was on.

    “Ohh good choice, how did you want the sugar flowers to be arranged?” Marlene looked worried.

    “Umm” She replied.   

    “Well she really loves orange sweet peas and we have a few calla lilies in the wedding well.” Giving the woman an idea what she would have to work with.

    “Well I could do a few large lilies at the top and fill the middle with sweet peas.” Looking from Marlene to me.

    “I love that, please do that” She was bright again.

    “Did you want anything on the sides?” The woman asked.

    “Like what?” Marlene looked back at me.

    “I can do whatever you want” Ohh not helpful.

    “Do know the diamond pattern, where you can stick sugar pearls on the tips?” I asked. I saw all over them except the baker look at me like I was freaking nuts.

    “Yes, it would look really good on this cake, since its simple” I nodded.   

“Marlene, its sort of looks like this” Drawing the pattern on a napkin and adding the small circular pearls.

    “Ohh I like that, could we do green pearls?”

    “Sure, love” The baker replied writing it on the sheet. She finished writing and we paid the deposit. I would have to come back and get the balance. We all stepped outside and sighed.

    “Well that was more work then I thought” Sam grinned.

    “I don’t wanna hear it.” Waving his off, as Marlene laughed.

    “Is everything okay with the flowers?” She asked me. Crap, I still need to call that florist.

    “Of course, didn’t I tell you not to worry about it” Smiling, I’m so screwed. My body tensed up and I knew Matias caught it.

    “I know, I’m just worried”

    “I understand, but there is no need to. I’m your maid of honor and I’m taking care of it for you.” She hugged me and thanked me again.

    “Your really not getting her back Matias” Marlene said over my shoulder still hugging me.

    “Well see about that” He grinned at her.

    “He’s scary when it comes to you” She said whispering in my ear. I nodded with a smile. Going are separate ways a large arm wrapped around my neck kissing me.

    “Sorry to drag you along” I whispered knowing he could hear me.

“Don’t be silly, I had fun. Plus I got to learn something new about you” My head shot up.

    “New?”

    “Yea, I didn’t know you wanted to be a cake decorator” His soft eyes looked down at me, if wanted to know more.

    “Yea, it was something I always wanted to try” Smiling.

    “Did you get to?”

    “Yea, it was fun.”

    “Why did you stop then?”

    “Cause the head manager had enough bakers, so I was put back with…” I stopped, thinking about my dead boss. Matias growled, he knew what I was thinking. Squeezing he stopped and looked back down at me. His eyes had started to darken, but returned when I smiled at him. Pulling him into a café we ordered some real food and talked about his pack.

    “Matias?” Taking the last bite of my grilled chicken and bacon sandwich.

    “Yes love” grabbing his coke.

    “Lets go for a drive” Smiling, he eyed me for a second then nodded finishing off his coke.

We sat in silence as I drove, I knew where I wanted to go. The large canal that separated the larger part of the city from the more quiet town city. Parking the car I got out and walked down to the large rocks, that kept the water in. Matias followed watching me.

    “Be careful” Grabbing my arm, so I wouldn’t fall.

    “I’m fine” Sitting on a huge rock so he could sit next to me. The smell of the water was clean and fresh, seagulls screamed over head, and a few were trying to get the last French fries out of a paper bag.

“So, why’d you pick here?” Taking a seat next to me.

    “Because its really pretty when it gets dark. And I wanted to talk with you.”

    “What kind of talk?” Raising an eye brow.

    “Your not in trouble so relax.” Sensing that what he thought I was going to say. A smile pierced his sexy face, and I felt my hands get hot.

    “Alright” kissing my cheek.

    “I’m a little worried about meeting the pack” I finally said breaking the sound of water hitting rocks.

    “You shouldn’t be”

    “Well I am, I want them to like me. I guess….I guess I feel like because I’m now your mate and there Luna, not to mention the daughter to the Monarch, I would seem like I should be scary to them.” I sighed. “I don’t want them to be scared of me”

    “They wont, there just going to respect you more” Pulling me closer to him.

    “But what if?” I started.

    “Luna, your amazing, there going to love you. Yes you’re the daughter to the Monarch, and that can come off as a huge power boost, but you don’t use any of your powers against other wolves. So there’s no way they wouldn’t like you.” He wasn’t lying, and I truest him I really do. But the Monarch is the top dog, and me being his daughter I actually over rank Matias.

    I just don’t want to step on his toes, when and if we have a disagreement on something. This is not going to be easy. I sighed trying to push that out of my head.

    “What’s your Beta like?” Looking back at the water.

    “He’s nice, smart. Doesn’t have his mate yet, which I can tell his killing him.”

    “Are you warning me?” Smirking.

“Should I?” pulling me even closer.

    “No, I can handle myself” smiling.

    “I know.”

    “What’s your second in command like?”

    “Well, Davis is different” Rubbing the back of his neck. I looked at him.

    “How so?”

    “Well….” he seemed flustered about something.

    “Are you going to start with the secrets again?” Frowning.

    “No, I just….he’s gay” Turning red. I paused before laughing,

    “So?” chuckling to myself.

    “Its just…” Sighing. “He’s not the overly gay kind, more of the strong silent type.” Matias continued.

    “Ohh so he’s the one on top” Matias’s face turned red.   

    “What…how can you say that with a straight face” He was blushing all over.

    “Its not a big deal, I don’t know why your all flustered.” Smirking and looking at him out of the corner of my eye.

    “I’m not flustered.” Growling.

    “You sure are acting like it, why did you to have a lost moment” What I couldn’t help myself, he was practically having a fit.

    “A…what..no…why…how” He growled looking away. Making me laugh more.

    “Ohh I see, so it was a power struggle.” moving my finger back in forth threw the air.

    “Luna, we didn’t do anything” He was a little ticked off now.

    “I no” with a huge grin on my face.

    “Your evil” shaking his head.

    “No, I just have to get you back for all those times you make me blush.” kissing his cheek.

    “Yea sure” He was still sulking. What a baby. I climbed into his lap, and hear him moan a little. My head rested on his shoulder as I looked at the darkening sky and the city lights coming to life.