Chapter 52
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I get into the wailing car and dam the door.
Mark turns back to look at me. Drive,” I snap.
“Are you
“Yes“To him off. “Drive the fucking ent.”
My elbow is resting on the window and my face leans on my hand and as we pull out of the parking lot, I close my eyes so I don’t have to watch them ar they disappear.
A deep, dark bead ball sits in the pit of my stomach and I know it will never go away.
That was the hardest thing I’ve ever done.
I brush my teeth and walk into the bedroom. Actana is already in bed and reading.
1 watch her for a moment, her long dark hair is plaited and her cream knightgownstands out against her olive skin. There is no doubt about it, Ariana is one of the most beautiful women on earth. She glances up over the top of her book and gives me a smile. “What are you doing?”
“Looking at you.”
She taps the bed beside her. “Come and look at me like that from here.”
Telimb into bed and take her in my arms. Em riddled with guilt for a million reasons. I lied to her about where I was last night, I have no children that I haven’t told her about, I’m not excited about the wedding in the slightest, but the worst thing of all is can’t stop thinking about Seraphica
I hold her tight in my arms. She deserves so much better.
Her hand slides down my boxer shorts, her engagement ring catches on the fabric and Treach in and pull it out. “Tm tired”
“Since when are you ever too tired for sex?” “Since tonight.” Since I saw her.
Troll her onto her side facing away from me and I cuddle her back,
“Three weeks until we get married,” she whispers into the darkness. Im so excited to start our life together. She picks my hand up and kisses it, and I close my eyes in horror.
Tuck
“Let’s circle back to this report next week I reply to the staff around my board table. “Good work this month, our Egures are on fire.“They all leave the meeting room with a buzz of chatter. I collect my things and begin to walk back to my office. I pass through reception.
“Mr. Ferrara, your mother and Ariana are in your office, sir,” one of the girls tells me.
Thank you.”
I keep walking
and roll my eyes, great What are they doing here, I am way too busy for their wedding crap today.
I walk into the office to find them both with their stilettos kicked off and shopping bags everywhere. They both have a glass of champagne from my bar
“Ladies,” I say as I look around at the disaster, zone. To what do I owe this pleasure??
Ariana jumps up and wraps her arms around my neck. “We came to show you what’s arrived” She kisses me quickly and I pull our of her arms and peck my mother on the cheek “Mom”
“Hello, darling.” She smiles. “Take a spat.” She gestures to the couch.
“I don’t have time for this today.”
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“We’ll be quick” Mom smiles “Show him, Ariana”
Ariana digs through the bags and
I pulls out a hot and very slowly opensit
“Hurry up, this isn’t a methon.“I sigh. “I have all day, you
Momchackles as she eps to the much beside me for the show.
The box opens and Ariana pills out two crystal champagne flutes. “These are for all of the tides for the speeches” She pastes one to me. “Look at the engraving.”
My eyes scan the glass
Gabriel and Ariana
Eternally bound by 1
Teur my lip in disgust. ” over the top, don’t you think?” “Noco,” they gasp together.
Tgh”
“Oh, and there’s more.” Ariana widers her eyes.
I can hardly contain my excitement. “I mutter under my breath
“These are the chocolates for the table.” She pulls out a silver sample box and unwraps it and presents little chocolate statues of a bride and groom wrapped in fou
“Look closer,” Mom tells me as she passes me a groo
I look closer. “Why the hell does this chocolate look like me?”
They digitally remastered our faces onto them.”
Ieringe. “The last thing I want to see at my wedding is everyone I know sucking me off
Mom laughs out loud as if this is the best thing that has ever happened.
“Those chocolates have made my life complete.”
1 pass the box back to her. “Your Life mast be extremely boring. I have to get back to work.”
“Show him the surprise, Mom grabs my arm so I cant get up.
“Please don’t.” I sigh
Ariana pulls out crystal candlesticks. Look how perfect these are, and all the guests get to take one home as a souverär.” She points down to the base that’s engraved.
Gabriel and Ariana
Eternally bound by love
“If I got this at a wedding and was expected to take home. I would beat the groom to death with it. I stand and walk over to my desk. Take your tea party home, girls, I have to work”
“And now for the real shumestopper.
1drag my hand down my face. “I wish this show would stop,”
Ariana lifts off a cover and there are two white dovesi
silver gilded cage.
What the fuck?
“Are they real?” [from
– Band UFAL FREEDOM
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“Of course they’re real I’ve got to take them lack this afternoon, her I wanted to bring them to show you. When were pronounced man and wife three hundred doves are going to be released indocile air as a symbol of our eternal love!
I stare at her horrified, and utterly spreddess.
Ariana hats her eyelashes all proud of herself. “Do you love them?”
“Why not?”
When I said you could organize the wedding, I didn’t realize you were putting on a circus performance complete with a forking on p dows”
“Thit
“No fucking doves,” I snap.
Ariana’s face falls in i
alls in disapparemment..
Tim overruling yini, Gabriel. If Ariana wants doves, Ariana is getting doves. Only the best for my new daughter.“Mother sides. You have you want, sweetheart, get four hundred just to assert your dominance Mom winks at me and I clench my jaw.
Don’t push it, Mum
I always wanted a wife that my mother approved of, but these two together is over the top
“Leave,” I snap. “My next appointmem is here
ises and then slip into the sky high heels.
They laugh and chatter as they pack up their bullshit surprises i
I watch them for a moment, beautiful immaculately groomed, both in designer clothing, perfectly styled dark hair with not a thing out of place, and have an out of body realization that I am marrying my mother’s younger twin.
The thought is disturbing, how havent I seen this before?
Ariana kisses my cheek and my mother kisses the other and then they breeze out of my office just as they entered.
A whirlwind of glamor.
The door closes behind them and my office falls silent. I try to concentrate, but instead I walk to the window and stare out over the view of New York 1
mind drifts to Greenville with her. -side my hands into my suit pockets and
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