I was Kidnapped for Revenge by a Ruthless Alpha-Chapter 158: Christmas pt 2

~ODETTE’S POV~

"Present’s everyone!"

I yelled walking over to the tree and started to hand out the presents to the people in the room. Passing them out until under the tree was empty.

Everyone sat around the tree, pulling up their own stairs.

Emalea opened hers first, it was a present from me. She nearly cried when she saw what I got her. It was a best friend’s charm bracelet. "I love it." She rushed over hugging me.

"Okay, okay. You’re gonna suffocate me. Let go." I coughed. Her hug was warming to the bone.

Once she let go, I told her "There’s more in the boxes, move the paper around."

She dug through the box and found the scarf and gloves. The scarf was night sky blue with silvery baby blue frilled ends. The gloves with the same shade of dark blue with a ribbon the light blue color.

"These are beautiful... Thank you... I love them." She wiped the tears from her eyes.

"Of course!" I hugged her.

Raven opened hers next. Ambrose gave her new fingerless hand gloves. The knuckles were shielded by titanium, and the leather was magic infused, almost doubling the impact of a hit. She smiled with his gift, but I could tell it didn’t feel the same as it used too for her. She Opened mine next and was surprised, I gave her new black boots, but with pockets on the inside specifically designed and fully equipped with tiny thin needle like knives. Ursula gave her books looked her dead in the eyes and said, "That school didn’t teach you any of the important things you need to know." Damon was last he gave her a special necklace with pictures of her mom and dad in them. She looked up teary eyed "You always give the best gifts."

Damon went after; Ambrose gave him a nice platinum watch. "Just what I wanted." He told Ambrose. He opened mine next, I made his gift, it was a tin of different sweets he’s sampled that I made that he’s enjoyed.

Ambrose frowned seeing my gift for his Beta. His jealousy was cute sometimes.

Ravens gift to him was something sweet and thoughtful just like his. It was a metal bracelet, infused with magic, it was meant to amplify one’s ability.

Ursula smiled opening each gift from Ambrose, Raven, Damon and I.

With it being Ambrose and me left, I went next.

Opening first what Emalea gave me. She made me hat "I knitted it myself and practiced this specific stitch style just for this." Emalea was so proud of her hard work, and frankly, I was too. The hat was black with white and red roses silver threads knitted between some of the black making it look like star dust was sprinkled on it.

"It’s so beautiful. I love it." I was so tempter to put it on, but I didn’t want to mess up my hair that Emalea worked so hard on.

"This is from me." Raven surprisingly handed me a present. She’d kept with herself to hand deliver to me?

I felt a sense of ease wash over me, a memory from the past fighting to surface. Flashes of a kitten and blood plagued my view.

I swallowed hard and smiled.

Raven wasn’t like those girls. She wasn’t actually cruel. Cold and mean, but not cruel. Well, at least not to me now, maybe her hatred for me because of my family made me the exception. But from what I’ve seen, she’s just a little rough around the edges.

"Thanks Raven." She rolled her eyes and went back to her chair by the tree.

"I knew you’d buy me a gift, so I can let you one up me..." She muttered.

I chuckled inwardly and shook my head.

Opening, it, I was surprised by how beautiful it was. She gave me a cloak. That looked like the universe was living in the material. Each stitch looked alive and moving vibrantly on it.

"It’s a chameleon cloak, I work with Artemasia to make it. It doesn’t make you ’invisible’ but it makes you blend in with your surrounding seamlessly. Giving the illusion of invisibility." She tried to sound cool and unimpressed with her own work. But she couldn’t hide the pride behind her smirk.

"It’s beautiful. Thank you so much! I love it." I rose from my seat and walked to her.

"Hey, what are you doing?" Raven stuttered.

"Quit it, I don’t do hugs. Stop." She tensed up when I hugged her.

"Ew, affection." She snorted.

"Seriously, thank you. I never thought the two of us would ever sit around a Christmas tree together exchanging gifts." I offered her a gentle and sweet smile.

"Me either, and even though its happening in real time, I’m constantly wondering when I am going to wake up from this nightmare." She rolled her eyes. But the smile that kept slipping on her face couldn’t be hidden.

I opened Damon’s and Ursula’s presents next. Damon gifted me ice knives, that turn wounds into ice when delivered. And Ursula gave me a collection of impressive books. Not ones to learn from, these were novels of enjoyment, of pleasure. I grinned menacingly when I saw them, and she winked at me.

With only Ambrose’s left. A felt a sense of bittersweet settle in. This was our first Christmas together. Our first holiday as a family. I looked around the room, my eyes shifting from friend to friend. It was so unreal how this year was turning out to be.

Ambrose had a load of gifts for me, and I felt slightly embarrassed about how little I had gotten him. Granted I used my own hard earned money, and that felt good. Made me feel like my gifts were worth more. Not in monetary value but in the fact that I’ve never had a job or money I earned on my own and spent nearly all of it on my him.

Ther first gifts I opened were custom made armor. Made from black dragon steel and imbedded with magical gems and engraved with runes, he told me they glowed when I activated the spell enchantments.

The last gifts I opened were cute and more personalized. I was impressed with how much he knew about my stuffed animal preference. I loved odd dolls. He gave me a teddy bear with two heads, a rabbit with spider eyes and big floppy ears. A frogs head on a ducks body. And last her gave me a babydoll head on a horses body.

I was so in love with each one. I hugged them as I opened them.

Thinking I was all done, I was about to insist Ambrose start on his, but he pulled out two boxes one a thin square and the other was shaped like a small rose.

He said "This gift comes in two parts."

He rose from his seat and kneeled in front of mine.

"Princess Odette, you came into my life with all the fury of a solar storm, you turned my world in reverse and changed my life in so many ways I can’t name them all. You changed me. Made me a better man and a better king. I know you are my fated mate, but being with you has given me the chance to know you. So, I ask you formally, will you marry me?" he popped open the small rose box, inside was a large diamond ring. The diamond was cut and molded to fit like the north star. It was enchanting, the way the diamond glistened in the lighting of the room and reflected the light from the tree.

I started crying. The tears poured down my face like someone opened a dam. I couldn’t stop them. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝒆𝒘𝙚𝓫𝙣𝙤𝒗𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

I sniffled, trying to wipe my tears away "Yes."

He took my hand and slid it on my finger and smiled. I pulled him in close and kissed him deeply. Letting the spell his scent casted wash over me.

He pulled away, leaving me breathless and grabbed his final gift.

"Because you said ’yes’, open this now."

I took the box and pulled the ribbon that tied it on top. Opening the lid, I nearly dropped the whole thing.

It was a crown. It was silver in color, with a crescent moon in the center and a glowing star resting in the middle of the moon. The band was twisted to look like ivory but had tiny diamonds lining the twists.

"A Luna Crown fit for a goddess." Ambrose smirked knowingly at me.