Bloody Wedding

<h4><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>She's always belonged to him. She just didn't know it yet...</strong></h4><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Loni</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Everyone in Harmony Heights knows about the Order of the Owed. A not-so-secret society the men who get inducted are set for life. And the women they choose... there's no escape.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I thought I found one. The second I turned eighteen I was </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>gone</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>. A new name. A new start. No expectations. When the day came that the new inductees plotted their lives I wouldn't be a part of it.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And I believed that for more than a decade-until I received an invitation to my own wedding.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I thought it was a joke. No way was I going to be forced into marrying one of the Owed. It wasn't going to happen-</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>-and yet there I was dressed in white about to get married to a man I didn't know anymore.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Whoops. Wrong again.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Because the man who walked in on the ceremony calmly shooting my 'fiancé' before taking his place?</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I know </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>him</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Adrian Heller. My biggest tormentor... and my biggest </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>secret</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Adrian</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>For too long I had to hide how I felt about Loni Dougherty. Considering my obsession with her was the biggest open secret in all of Harmony Heights I didn't do that great of a job.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Everyone knew-except </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>her</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>She thought I was her high school bully. And maybe I was but I also made her untouchable; at least I </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>thought </em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I did. No one else could really have her and I wouldn't let anyone hurt her more than I had to... until that party senior year.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Even so I was sure that once I became one of the Owed I could make her </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>mine</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>. I held onto that too until she simply disappeared and my new loyalties meant I couldn't chase her out of town.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>That doesn't mean I gave up on her though. And when she gets dragged back to Harmony Heights to be given away to another Owed I make sure the whole Order knows that I Claimed her first.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>She looks so pretty with blood on her wedding dress and my name on her lips even if her eyes are filled with hate as she vows to be my bride.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But I don't care about that. Loni is mine and I'll end anyone who tries to get between us again.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>After all it wouldn't be the first time...</span></p><p></p>