Rydge The following month was indeed busy for Jess. She was with his mother nearly every day, mixing in her Luna Lessons with the planning of not only their Marking before the pack, which was going to be a smart casual event for the pack, but semiformal for him and Jess and both their units. She also wasn’t always inside the pack. She’d been out shopping every other day for the first two weeks trying to find a dress Jess liked for not only the Marking but her Luna Ceremony, and she’d fallen into their bed after the fifth shopping trip and muttered, “I hate shopping. It’s exhausting,” he’d chuckled softly. “Did you find a dress?” he’d asked. “Yes, and your mother argued with the store owner about it, because they said it was a new design, and it was going to take 8 weeks to get another

