Little Kiss

Henry was staring at his dad in anger. Elliot looked at the lawyer and said, "Give the file containing the custody conditions to Rex." The lawyer took the file out of his bag.

Rex read the documents in the file and said in even more anger, "Fuck off, how can he do this? He knows how much I love Nova."

"We have convinced John with great difficulty for this. He wants you to marry a noble lady. So that he can give his nephew's future in safe hands."

Victor said while explaining to him. On this, Rex said while clenching his fist in anger, "I am his father, Sam is my child. Who else except me will have him safe? How can he even think like this? Has John become mentally ill? I have been yearning for my son for 5 years and that man is driving me crazy. fuck him!!"

"Control yourself Rex, don't forget he is your childhood friend." Elliot explained to him to calm him down.

But Rex's anger was not going to calm down.

He interrupted his dad and said sternly, "He was a friend, Dad! Now I have only one relationship with him. And that is that of an enemy. He is my crazy enemy. I don't even want to look at him. I don't talk to him because of Nova."

Seeing him in anger, Victor said, "Enough is enough. Rex, this is not about the average of a CEO. It is not even about your son Sam. This is about the heir of the Foster family. Sam is the heir of our family. Now will you marry me or not? Answer us?? "

"I am ready for marriage. But you all must note that she will become my wife in name only. I will never love her." Rex said, gritting his teeth in anger.

"Do you promise each other that from today till your last breath, you will love each other in every good and bad time and will keep this marriage together." The priest's voice brought Rex out of his thoughts.

Anger was visible on Rex's face.

With great difficulty he controlled it and said, "I will."

Julie also controlled her trembling voice and said, "I will."

Everyone clapped for both of them. On the priest's signal, the wedding ring was brought there and looking at it, the priest said, "Now Mr. Foster, you put the ring on your wife's finger and kiss her to complete the marriage ceremony."

The mention of kiss made both their hearts stop beating. Julie was trembling inside.

"fuck! I am not going to kiss this girl." Rex was fretting in his mind.

Everyone's eyes were on both of them.

Anne was standing behind Julie. She came close to Julie from behind and whispered in her ear, "Do as you are saying. You know that the whole family can die because of this marriage. Do you want to get your family killed?"

"Father, I think that lip kiss may not be right for my wife. Why not complete the ritual by kissing the hand instead.", Rex said looking at the priest. Hearing this Julie felt a little relieved.

"Ok!!"

The priest gave permission. Julie extended her small left hand towards Rex.

Rex put the ring on it and then pretended to kiss it. But Julie was surprised to see that he did not kiss her hand.

The priest announced, "From now on, you both are husband and wife."

Hearing this, Julie closed her eyes. A teardrop fell from her cheek to the floor. The entire hall echoed with applause. The echo drowned out the sobs of Julie and her grandmother because she was also crying badly.

After completing the rest of the rituals of the wedding ceremony, the foster family decided to leave with the bride to their family house. Julie came to her room to meet her grandmother for the last time.

Grandma explained to her lovingly, “My dear child, I did not want to give you such a marriage. I know that you have to study. But it could not happen, maybe God had written this marriage in your fate. But don't worry. I am here, I will talk to your father-in-law myself. They will not let you face any trouble there.”

She tried to calm Julie down but her efforts were in vain.

Julie said crying, “Grandma, I want to take Mom Dad’s photo with me.”

“No one will ask about this. Whatever you want to take, take it.”, Grandma replied and she took her to her parents’ room. In that room, Julie started looking at her parents' things. Suddenly, she saw her parents' photo kept near her bed.

She took the photo in her hand and said to herself while crying, "Sorry mom dad! I have been making a promise to you for the last five years. Now I am breaking it. Please forgive me, I cannot find the killers of both of you, so I am sorry."

She hugged the photo to her chest.

“Miss, it is time for you to leave.”, a maid called her from the door.

Julie wiped her tears and came to the maid with the photo.

“Put it in my luggage.”

She extended the photo to the maid.

But the maid refused her and said, “Miss, you cannot take your luggage with you. The foster family has asked you to leave here alone.”

“What??”, Julie was shocked.

Looking at the maid, she asked, "Why?? Why can't I do this?? I have to take my stuff with me."

"Sorry, but you can't do this. Mr. Foster has given a strict warning that you cannot take cheap things with you." Hearing this from the maid, Julie clenched her fists.

"He is my equal. Does he want to say that I am cheap? How can he say this?"

"He is my equal. Does he want to say that I am cheap? How can he say such a thing?"

Once again tears welled up in her eyes. She started crying like an innocent child.