Meeting the Matriarch

KELLAN’S POV

I almost called the whole thing off.

That was my first thought when I pulled up outside the building after two turns around town and saw her standing there, waiting.

My breath caught so hard it felt like I’d forgotten how to inhale.

She wasn’t just beautiful, though she was that too. Effortlessly so. She wore a simple dress, nothing flashy, nothing that screamed trying too hard, but