PAIGEAnger moved through me sharper than a knife as my jaw twitched in fury.“I belong to James; he is the one that I am getting married to, and you are ruining my wedding.” She said, and I wanted to throw something at her.Which day was it that I had her in my clutches? She was in my power, and everything was going well.“I think it's time for you to leave, sir,” she said in a voice that was so meek. The more I heard it, the more I wanted to throw up from it.She was a pretentious whore with nothing that she ever deserved.I was tempted to stand up and leave, but if I did that, then she would know that I was here.“I love James, sir,” her voice echoed.I sat with my mouth agape and my hands crossed at the front of my skirt.“She would make a loyal queen,” I heard someone say, and I wanted to rip out his tongue along with the old woman who agreed to what he was saying by nodding her head.Was this what everybody thought?Was this what they meant by saying she would be a good queen,
~AUDRINA~I sighed in happiness as I finally got the confused stranger to mellow down and allow me to have my day in peace.“We should continue,” the pastor said, clearing his throat. I looked back at the crowd I had just addressed, and my eyes caught something that made my skin crawl. At first, I wanted to make sure what I was seeing and thinking were two different things, but they weren't. The longer I squinted into the crowd, the more I wanted to run out.If I didn’t know any better, I would have said that the lady with a net hat, very inappropriate for a wedding, looked a lot like Paige. However, I didn’t want to point fingers in a crowd or accuse someone falsely.I decided to turn around and do what I wanted to do.“Is everything okay?” James asked me, and I nodded my head as I fastened my hand in his, and he squeezed gently.I was actually going to get married before everyone—before the people, before my father, and before the goddess.It wasn’t what I had previously wanted with
~AUDRINA~"You disgrace me! You embarrass me! In our home and now outside? You are an embarrassment.” My father spat as he sat down at the front of the pew with his hands crossed in front of him, anger sitting in his eyes.“Father,” I started to say, but he raised his hands in the air and stopped me from saying yet another word."Oh, I don’t want to hear another word from your lips,” he said, silencing me instantly.“How dare you?”“How dare you even think that for a small second I would allow you to call me father? Or call me anything affectionate, for that matter?” he said, and I started to shrink back into my shell.“I am appalled to even call you my child. Left to me, you don’t even exist, and I can see all the reasons why this makes a lot of sense,” he said, and I wanted to ask him why he was also adding to my misery when I was currently fighting Paige to let me go.“Father, Paige is lying about all of this,” I said, trying to even save my skin, even if it was a little bit, but n
~AUDRINA~I watched with horror as Paige struggled to stand up, and when she eventually did, blood was coming out of different angles of her mouth."Paige!" I screamed, but the more I screamed, the more blood poured out of her mouth."Ryan," I breathed, trying to remember clearly what I had just seen with my own two eyes.Paige had told him that she was not going to stop to get access to me after she had insulted me. She had made me not only lose our father but also ruined my wedding.I didn’t know what to do or whom to help, given that I had just witnessed an act of brutality from a man who didn’t have a single fighting bone in his body.Paige stood up after what seemed like ages, and her mouth licked all sorts of liquids, from saliva to blood and back to both, mixed."Paige?" I asked, concern lacing my voice as I tried to reach her, but she stood up and held her hands in front of her, making me stop in my tracks."Don’t act like you care about me," she said, instantly hurting me wit
~Audrina~We all waited in the banquet hall. The tension was on everyone. What was he going to look like? became the disturbing question that pricked my heart. I could clearly hear the gossip from the exotic guests who kept staring at me."I heard he is very ugly; it's such a pity." I heard a voice say, but I remained calm and told her not to have heard a word."Perhaps that's why he always wears a mask. I feel pity for Audrina; she deserves someone far more handsome than an ugly prick," another voice said.I turned around and locked eyes with the very people who gossiped with reckless abandon."Why don't you wait and see what he actually looks like before opening your mouth to speak ill about him? Pity your words before my future," I said with a clenched fist.James walked in and everywhere became dead silent; his presence brought a different aura, and of course, everyone, including me, was eager to see the face beneath the mask. My skin itched to touch his face. He slowly walked to
~Audrina~“I will keep saying this even though I have said it before,” James's mother started, and I fixed my gaze at her.I wondered what the matter was again and why she had developed a sudden rage. From the look of things, nothing was fine.“Now everyone should listen to me again! I said that whoever dared to ruin my son's wedding would be made to pay a heavy price. Watch and see! Dare me and see what I can do!” Mabel kept on yelling at the top of her voice.Her voice was so loud that it shook the walls of the room. I could feel the heat and anger coming from her.I had to adjust myself and just watch how things were playing out.My head was banging severely, and I was having a severe headache that I doubt would stop anytime soon.What I needed was rest, and I was not getting any of it yet.Things were getting tiring for me, who was in the corner of the room watching everything that was going on.There was no peace in this place, and I had already embraced whatever was meant to hap
~Audrina~Mabel's face was redder than a tomato. This was the angriest I'd seen her get, and the fact that it was on my behalf sent waves of happiness through me."Well then, with the evidence before our eyes, what do you have to say for yourself?" Mabel glared daggers at Paige, whose mouth still dangled open with shock.Color flooded her cheeks at the embarrassment, and her eyes flashed dangerously, like she was blinking tears.The whole situation was comical."It's a fake! That never happened," Paige sputtered, turning around to catch every eye like that would show how innocent she was. Which she clearly was not."Spare us the crap, girl! That's clearly you and Nicholas in the video disgustingly going at it," Mabel pointed at the screen, and Paige flushed an even darker red.Nicholas looked ready to bolt out of the room."Do you have no shame, girl? In the hallway of all places? How classless could you be?" Mabel gave Paige a once-over that literally made Paige shrink a size smaller
~Audrina~A resounding crack sounded by the fence, echoing into the hall and satisfying the desperate, angry part of me that wanted to hurt Paige in any way possible.It was born out of years of her bullying me and ruining my life.A smile curled my lips as another crack sounded. From the sound of it, the guards were really going hard at the lashings because I heard Nicholas let out a cry of pain.No one had expected me to issue a flogging order, but then no one complained.And since no one had complained, it was definitely OK to do as I had asked, or rather, it was OK for them to do as I requested."Happy?" James asked me, eyeing my smiling face wearily. I ignored him.This was my moment to savor Paige and Nicholas being whipped like criminals by the guard post. I wouldn't let anyone ruin that for me. I was damn happy, and if I could record this moment, I would.When Mabel had asked James if he would punish them, I'd half expected him to say no. He could be like that sometimes,and a