12:35pm
De Martel Mansion
Living room
"This is atrocious!" Giovanni said, grimacing as he spit out the piece of Ombre Affect cake into a napkin. He couldn't believe that was the cake Tristan and Aya had suggested for the wedding.
Scratching it off the list of wedding cakes, he set aside his golden pen and looked at Elysia, a friend of his and a member of the Strix, giving the redhead a woeful expression. She had taken to biting her lip to keep from laughing at her friends' facial expressions as he tried the different cakes.
"This is why I don't let Tristan pick out his own suits-he has no taste! If it was up to him it'd be black all the time like a damn grim reaper!" Giovanni said rolling his eyes as he picked up his fork and poked at the next cake sample. "What is this?" he asked raising his eyebrow at the piece as Elysia picked up the list and looked at it.
"It's called Ruffled Roses by Ron Ben-Israel suggested by you." The Irish woman said putting the list down as Giovanni ate a piece from the fork and moaned at the deliciousness of it.
"Circle it! This is the one! This is my wedding cake!" Giovanni said taking another bite.
"Only took you 78 cakes to find it!" The redhead mumbled as door to the living room opened, ushering Tristan into the room closely followed by Aya Al-Rashid, Tristan's right hand woman. They were accompanied with at least four other members of the Strix.
"Tristan! I found the cake! You have got to try this! It's simply heavenly!" Giovanni said, smiling delightedly at his fiancé. Tristan walked over placing a kiss on Giovanni's lips then took a piece of Ruffled Roses into his mouth and grimaced at the taste before swallowing it.
"Sweetheart, I don't think this is the one for our wedding Aurora will hate this! I told you she does not like anything too sugary." Tristan said shaking his head as he looked around the room that was filled with people helping Giovanni with wedding preparations.
"Clear the room I'd like to have a word with my fiancé." Tristan said in a voice that was dangerously calm- a voice that had been mistaken for gentle by those long dead. Not a second later the room was almost empty, leaving only Giovanni, Tristan and Aya.
"I thought you said Aurora wasn't coming to the wedding!?" Giovanni said panicking as he got the wedding seat chart. "I only have seats for four hundred people not four hundred and one Tristan! Do you know what this means! I'll have to-"
"Darling, we have more pressing matters to discuss than the seating chart!" Tristan said sighing softly as he placed the chart back on the table then taking Giovanni's hand and leading him to the couch making him sit beside him.
"Yes your poor communication skills!" Giovanni retorted earning him a low chuckle from Aya. "What's more important than planning our wedding Tristan?" Giovanni asked, annoyed, raising an eyebrow at his fiancé.
"I'm leaving for New Orleans for a couple of days and I don't know when I'll return so I think we should put the wedding on hold." Tristan said as he rubbed circles on his fiancé's hand hoping to ease the storm that was coming.
"Tristan I will stake you in the heart if you ever tell me that you want to put my wedding on hold ever again!" Giovanni said glaring at his lover before smiling. "Now tell me what did you think of the venue photos I sent you? I was thinking Milan or if you wanted to be romantic...'s really nice this time of year-"
"Giovanni! I'm serious I have to leave to get this sire line situation fixed. After that then we can have the wedding! I promise. But I have to do this now or the opportunity is gone!" Tristan said squeezing Giovanni's hands as the he glared at him.
Tristan tried not to glance at the clock on the wall…it would only upset Giovanni if he saw that he was trying to leave.
"Tristan you are not leaving! Our wedding is more important than your stupid sire line issue! You need to be here with me focusing on our wedding!" Gio said angrily as Tristan narrowed his eyes at his irate fiancé.
"Dear, what's the point of having a wedding if I suddenly turn into a pile of ashes after I say I do? I have to do this...for us." Tristan said as his brown eyes gazed lovingly at Giovanni's angry light blue ones.
"No, you're not leaving!" Gio cried, his face turned down in a pout.
Tristan sighed and nodded at Aya who slowly approached Gio from behind, using their backup plan; stabbing him in the neck with a vervaine dart. "Take him up to the room and put this on the nightstand...and make sure that there are three Milky Way close by, he likes those." Tristan said sighing as Giovanni went limp in Aya's arms.
"Understood." Aya said as she hauled Giovanni up and took him out of the room and up the stairs.
"I'm sorry my love but this needs to be done!" Tristan said as he walked out of the living room, playing with the engagement ring on his finger. If he couldn't get the sire line issue under control, he wouldn't have a future to plan with Gio. Gio might very well die as well.