/Brian’s POV/I couldn’t wait for the engagement bouquet to come to an end with the last dance, but Adrian being the bastard that he is, brings the dance to an abrupt stop by rudely walking out on us.Ember kept on calling out to him, but he left her standing while Eden and I followed behind them because there was no need for us to continue the dance when the only thing that we have been doing since the engagement bouquet started has been to play along.I noticed Elliot walking up to the betrayer and talking to him for a while, so I looked around the bouquet hall, to see how she is holding up after the man that she is going to be spending the rest of her life with countlessly utilized every opportunity he had to not only embarrass her, but to also emphasize that he doesn’t want her in his pace and it seemed like her girls were going to fight on her behalf, so I just took a chill pill and watched everything from a distance.I saw Elliot leave the bouquet hall with Adrian and I felt some
/Meelah’s POV/After I left Ember and Dianne’s room, I made my way back to my room to check up on Eden, and I met Aurora and Ryker discussing plans on how to successfully sneak Eden out of the hotel and get her to the hospital.Ryker has a few connections in Orion, so they were able make arrangements with admitting her in the hospital without a police report, while Dianne eventually hacked into the CCTV cameras and helped them to avoid every camera on their path.I wanted to go with them, but I couldn’t because I am the substitute bride, so I stayed in the room trying to convince myself that I didn’t just make the biggest mistake of my life.Few minutes after Eden was taken away, Elva Kings joined me in the room with her team and informed me that she is here to help us with the brise switch, which can only mean that Ember has spoken to Brian and he is in support of this too.While Elva was trying to paint a picture of what her brother told her Ember also joins us in the room and Elva
/Meelah’s POV/ I silently pray for Embers mom not to stand up from her sit to join us in walking now the aisle, but she does making me change my prayer to us not getting caught Now, it is either her mom picks one of us, or she gets in between both of us since she so badly wants to walk us down the isle If she is to pick one of us, Ember can always manipulate her way into drawing attention to herself, but if she decides to pick Me, she may find out that only one of her daughters is under the veil which will cause a major catastrophe more so, we have come to far just to fail when we are so close to achieving our goals. Thankfully, we get to the front of our seats and her mom didn’t make any move to get in between us, she just quietly walked behind us, all the way to our sit then went back to her sit After we make ourselves comfortable on our seat, the grooms procession make their way into the church and I watch their entrance through the projector because Ember and I are seated i
/Meelah’s POV/“I don’t think either the ministers nor the ushers will be able to control the situation” Brian whispered and I looked around the congregation to see if the guests were going to calm down and come to terms with the bride switch, but they were not looking like they were going to calm down for the wedding to proceed“I would have asked us to leave for the reception venue, but it will give a lot of people unnecessary access to you, and at this time protecting you is of great importance” Brian said and I nodded in agreement even though I found it very surprising that he was critically considering the consequences of the bride switch compared to the way I was taking it.When the pastor realized that the guests were not going to calm down, he cut his wedding sermon short and I was more than happy when the sermon was brought to a close because I found the sermon very unnecessary because I am not so much of a wedding person more so, the noise in the church was too much because
/Brian’s POV/After speaking to Ember and she asked me to participate in the bride switch, I had no choice but to do it because I love her so much, and I will do anything for her.I called Elva and put her up to the task without having to explain so much because I knew that my sister would do anything to make me happy.The bride switch was carried out successfully, but Eden’s family members are riled up by the fact that the substitute bride is Meelah of all people, and they are of the opinion that she disregarded her friendship with her friend just because of a man.At the reception, a few people called Meelah a betrayer, a lying scum, and cheater to her face while I stood there, shaking my head at how gullible they are because If only they knew the disaster Meelah helped them to avoid by substituting her best friend.Also, If only they knew what they were plunging Eden to, and things could have gotten worse if Meelah didn’t find her in time .Instead of celebrating a wedding this mor
/Brian’s POV/I leave the bar for the hotel room because I categorically mentioned to Meelah that she shouldn’t leave the room nor tell anyone about what happened, but leaving Meelah alone in that room is going to really creep her out.I make my way down to Crowne Plaza just to get to Meelah in time, and when I finally make it to the room, I ring the doorbell but she doesn't answer, I also dial her number more than five times but she doesn’t pick up.“It can’t be that Meelah passed out in the creepy room out of fear, right?” I stop to consider, while trying to paint a picture of how creepy the room must look according to the description that she gave me earlier“I need to ask Elva if she knows how I can quickly get a spare key card to Meelah’s room” I mutter as I pick up my phone to call ElvaI pace around the front of Meelah’s room while dialing Elva’s number, but she is not picking up.My father runs a hotel, and I know where and how exactly to get a spare key card, but that will be
/Brian’s POV/ “Shall we?” she inquires and I let out an awkward smile. “shall we?” I ask her confused “shall we be on our way to see your dad like you sister just informed?” she answers with irritation evident in the tone of her voice “when was there a we in the equation” I question her and she stops for a moment to probably process my question. “you agreed to see my father not me so stop trying to impose your decision on me” I caution her.“Are you planning to avoid your father forever” she answers with the look on her face suddenly softening “I don’t plan to ignore the old man forever, I just plan do ignore him for as long as I can” I answer her because I know that my father is literally going to kill me for what I did earlier today because no one goes against Xander kings and comes out unscratched so if I was asked if I regret what I did? My answer will be a resounding NO.“I have successfully gotten myself out of the alliance between the kings and the Weston’s for life.In
/Meelah’s POV/“Since your mother is out of the room, I guess we can have a proper conversation now” Mr. kings speaks up as he gestures to the seat in front of him for us to be seated, but I hesitate because I am not sure if that Is the right thing to do or not but Brian pulls me to the seat, and we are both seated faces to face with Mr. Kings.“it is funny how you had unwavering confidence to noy only substitute your friend as the bride, but you were able to pull through the whole ceremony, so why are you acting like I am going to swallow you alive” Mr. Kings cackles and the twisted feeling in my stomach multiplies knowing“The marriage is done, you guys are married already and there is no need crying over a spilt milk, but I want to ask if you thought this marriage through before going ahead to marry Brian?” Mr. Kings inquires looking into my eyes with an emotion that I can’t place.“Wait a minute,,,,,,,,”“This scenario right here is not following the script that I wrote in my head