Chapter 3

There was a loud knock on Naya’s door making her frown and look up.

“Come in” she said and went back to her work.

“Good morning miss Strauss” Malorie greeted her and sat down. Naya frowned and wondered why Malorie was there.

She was a business woman who dealt with organizing events she had recently acquired an event hall and was looking for a grand way to open it up. When she heard of Cole’s engagement she decided to show up and negotiate with Naya so they could have the ceremony there, this would give her enough publicity to set the place rolling.

“Good morning, how may I help you?” Naya said in a dismissive mood.

“I’m here to propose a deal, I heard Cole is getting married, it’s the talk of the town, there’s suspense everywhere everyone wants to know who the bride is, I believe it’ll be the talk of the town for days” Malorie said excitedly.

“Uhuh?” Naya asked.

“I want to propose a deal, let Cole have his wedding at my event centre, I’ll give you a discount after everything is done” she proposed.

“No! We’re having it at the beach with few people, we already paying for a lot of things we can’t afford to pay you too” Naya declined.

She knew Malorie was only looking for a cheap way to showcase her hall and she wasn’t going to allow her to do that.

“Oh come on I won’t charge you that much, it’s a new place so you just need to…”

“No, we’re not doing it there! Doing it there has more benefits for you than for us, unless you state what’s in it for us we’re not going to hold it there” Naya said firmly.

“Okay, okay, how about I offer you $20,000 so you do it there as a form of advertisement for me?” Malorie proposed.

Naya scoffed “no, Cole is an A- list actor there will be massive press coverage of the wedding, that’s enough publicity for you, If you want me to consider your hall as the venue you’ll have to give me more than 20,000” Naya said.

Naya being business minded was already finding a way to make up for 100,000 compensation she was going to give to Luna and Malorie happened to have brought herself.

“Fine, 50,000 I’m not bidding any higher” Malorie gave in. Naya beamed with smiles at least 50,000 was better than none.

“Agreed” she exclaimed.

“But I have my demands too if I’m going to cash out 50,000 for you” Malorie stated.

“I’m listening…” Naya said dreamily.

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A few hours to the wedding and no one had seen Luna, her calls had gone unanswered and nobody could find her. Mr. Marsh was getting impatient and so was Naya. 45 minutes to the wedding that groom had made his appearance but there was no sign of the bride. Naya burst into the bride’s hotel room and only saw the make up artist and the other stylists waiting for the bride so they could do their job. The make up artist caught her Naya’s eye she had a similar figure as the model she just had bigger bust than her but they could work with that after all Luna didn’t reveal her face at the press conference. She pulled the make up artist aside and whispered in her ear.

“What’s your name?”

“Brittany, you can call me Bre” she responded.

“Brittany, the bride hasn’t showed up and it’s 45 minutes to commence the ceremony, there’s paparazzi and media that are ready to embarrass Cole if something goes wrong”

Brittany wondered why Naya was telling her all this, she was only here to do her job, she didn’t care about anything else.

“You have a similar body type as Luna can you be the back up bride for us? Dress up and get your make up done, we’ll present you as the bride if she doesn’t show up” Naya said to her.

“Huh? Why? No I can’t…”

“$100,000 if you do this I’ll pay you $100,000 cool cash, you just have to show up for after the wedding you’ll end up being a free woman with a 100,000 in yours bank account” Naya announced to her.

“I don’t have to go through a divorce and all that?” Brittany asked.

“No you don’t, a minute after the wedding is over the marriage is also over, technically you’ll only be married for a minute yet you get to walk away with 100,000 isn’t it wonderful?”

Brittany was amused, 100,00 could cover rent for many months, take her on vacations, pay for her needs and still have a lot of it left in her account of course she was taking this opportunity.

“I’m in!” She announced.

“Great!” Naya yelled and turned to stylists “dress her up for the wedding we have 40 minutes to get done and get to the ceremonial hall” she instructed and walked out.

Cole and Sean sat at the front seat waiting for the bride to show up.

“You know you can always change your mind if you want to bro, you don’t have to go this far” Sean whispered in Cole’s ears and laughed.

“Oh shut up this is all your fault, can’t wait for all this to be over” Cole replied. Cole was ready to be put on his best acting skills when the bride stepped in, they all gave the bride a standing ovation as she walked in but Cole was busily looking at the person behind the veil. It didn’t look like Luna who was this, he quickly knocked himself back to reality and pretended to cry because his bride was finally in. Sean played along and consoled his friend.

When it was time to unveil the bride the paparazzi and attendees were on standby everyone including Cole himself wanted a good shot of the face of the woman who had managed to capture the heart of the award winning actor Cole Williams”