Page 57 of Beyond the Darkness

“Of course you do,” Connie said, laughing as he took the phone from Hudson and scrolled to the next picture. “Oh, I like the white suit with the red scroll work on the pants and arms.”

“Those are just ideas,” Kit said. “I mean, seriously, feel free to do some looking around. I just wanted to give you an idea of what I was thinking. I know you guys like red, and we’d be keeping to the color theme too.”

“We have a color theme?” Hudson asked.

“Well, I guess? I mean, there will be a lot of crystals in the décor, and red is definitely my main color, thanks to the roses. Our wedding bands match too—red and white. I don’t know if I’m going to carry a bridal bouquet, but if I do, it’ll probably be red and white roses. So, yeah, red and white are our colors.”

“I like it. You can’t go wrong with red,” Connie said.

“I agree.” Hudson handed Kit his cell phone back. “I like the examples of clothing you picked for us. We’ll figure out a time to actually go look at things in person,” Hudson said. “How does that sound?”

“Excellent. And for something this big and elaborate, I’m going to need the best paranormal wedding planner there is in San DeLain,” Kit said.

Connie dragged his cell phone out of his pocket. “Let me do some asking around, and I’ll get a name for you. But we definitely need a wedding planner. All the research I have done stresses that.”

“And we need recommendations for everything. Just everything. Flowers, food, the cake, and wow. I’m already stressing out,” Kit joked.

Hudson reached across the table and grabbed Kit’s hand. “This wedding planner? Is that not what they do? Plan the wedding?”

“You make it sound so easy.” Kit giggled.

With his other hand, Hudson pointed at Connie. “He is not only my Right Hand, he’s also my assistant.”

“In other words, organizing things is what I do. I’d love to help plan our wedding,” Connie said.

“And I will happily help also. I’m not sure how good I’ll be at organizing things, but I am excellent at growling at people,” Hudson said, flashing his fangs. “Most excellent.”

Connie smirked. Hudson was good at that, but he really didn’t know what all was involved in a wedding. For that matter, neither did Connie, except for what he’d read. But the feeling he was getting was that big fancy weddings were very involved.

There were invitations to be picked out and printed, cakes to be ordered, clothes, venue, flowers, catering, and the list just went on and on and on. Things a wedding planner would handle, but those things still had to be picked out by the three of them.

Kit had touched on how he wanted red roses at the wedding, and lots of them, so that was one hurdle out of the way. And Connie wasn’t worried about the venue. One way or the other, they’d get the place and date they wanted, thanks to Hudson.

“Okay, before we go any further, we need to set a date,” Kit said. “And we’ll probably need to set it a year from now.”

“A year?” Hudson asked. “That seems to be a long time to wait for something you want.”

“It usually takes that long to plan a big wedding, though,” Kit pointed out.

“Ordinarily, yes, I could see that. And if you want to wait that long, that’s fine with us,” Hudson said. “But we don’t have to.”

“What do you mean?”

Hudson shrugged. “What’s that old saying? Oh yeah, money talks. Pick a date, and I will make it happen.”

Kit’s mouth fell open. “That’s crazy, you know that, right?”

Again, Hudson just shrugged. “Anything for you.”

Connie jokingly stuck his finger under Kit’s chin and closed his mouth. “He’s not kidding when he says any day, but could I remind you that the Halloween Bash will be happening in October, and the masquerade ball happens in December. It would be easier not to do it in those months.”

“But we will if that’s what you want,” Hudson said, glaring at Connie.

“Okay, okay, let’s not make things too hard on Connie. You might be able to make it happen soon, Hudson, but it still takes time to print invitations, cook food, and custom make wedding finery. Just… just give me a second to think here.”

Hudson reached over and patted Kit’s hand. “Take all the time you need.”

“I’m going to go take a walk for a second. And think. I’ll be back in a bit,” Kit said, getting up and walking toward the pool.

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