CHAPTER 26BLACK AND WHITE
NAOMI
For the most part, we went traditional with the befasting arrangements—red ribbons and ankle-length kimono-esque gowns, shindig hosted by Damon’s parents, flowers and food and all that jazz. Our situation had raised enough eyebrows; we didn’t want to give more excuses for people to consider us “not really befasted.” But we really had to tweak the vows a little. The ones I’d heard at Damon’s cousin’s befasting were just not going to do for us.
So when everyone gathered on the lawn for the Big Event, after the requisite dinner-and-mingling, there was quite the ripple of surprise as Damon, not his father, spoke the First Vow. Or our version of the First Vow.
“I surrender to you my hand, Naomi Winters, daughter of Eve, in the expectation of my care and keepi
