Two Weddings (and One Near Funeral)

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Mackenzie traced her finger down the neat list of names, her dread rising with each one.  Everyone she knew and loved, all of her nearest and dearest, doomed to tragedy with a slash of Carmen’s pen.

Oh well, it was too late to back out now.  All that was left was to ask the most important question.  “Ten bridesmaids and ten groomsmen? Are you getting married, or invading Canada?”

Carmen leaned over to peer at the list.  “A surprising number of them do know how to handle heavy artillery.”

At least the woman was keeping her sense of humor.  Mackenzie moved her finger back to the top of the list.  “Franklin and Ollie were in the army with Alec, weren’t they?”

“And Karl.  They still like to argue over who was the biggest badass.”  Her smitten grin made it clear who had her vote.

Alec was a lucky bastard, indeed, to have found a woman who wanted to put up with his insufferable bullshit.  Of course, Mackenzie had noticed a decided decline in said bullshit when Carmen was around, proof that even Alec could behave himself with proper incentive. “Yeah, this is pretty much a who’s who of local muscle and growly shapeshifters.”

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