/Meelah’s POV/I stare at my best friend on the ground with wide eyes that I cannot shut, with the feeling of the room spinning around me “She was fine an hour ago” I mutter as I force myself to move from my frozen spot. “Eden please open your eyes” I beg her desperately, but all my plea seem to land on deaf earI notice the knife that she used in spitting her own wrist next to her and a bottle of pain killers that I packed when we were traveling.I intentionally bought a bottle of pain killer for the trip because of the stress I knew that I was going to go through but instead of the full bottle that I traveled with, the bottle next to Eden is empty.“Eden please don’t do this” I plead again, and this time around I notice her clutching a piece of paper so I take it from her to check the content.“Dear Meelah, I am really sorry that it had to get to this, but there is just no way I can go through with this wedding. I thought I was going to be able to do it at first because my fat
/Meelah’s POV/ “I really want to go along with your suggestion, but it seems way too difficult to accomplish” Ember speaks up after a while, dragging me out of my own thoughts. “I understand that you are trying to help my sister so that she doesn’t have to go through with this, but how the hell are we supposed to successfully switch the bride without being noticed by anyone, and where did you get this whole bride switch idea from because it sounds really unreasonable” she expresses in concern. “I know that all these sounds unreasonable right now, but if we put heads together we can actually pull this through”I declare with determination in her voice because under no condition am I going to sacrifice my best friend's physical and mental health, just for the sake of an arranged marriage.“How the hell are we going to get a replacement for my sister less than four hours to her wedding” Ember inquires frantically pacing around the room and I stop to consider for a moment.If the b
/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