Forever Yours

Chapter Thirty Six

As the days drew closer I began to get myself ready to leave and probably not see the people I love until a long while. I'm not going to pack a bag just myself and my passport, that was all.

Everything was going as planned, Andrew and I had to reduce the way we were seen together in public and Miles and I had to hang out more often.

We never talked about what happened between us, both of us deciding to keep it a secret until I was ready to tell Andrew myself. I know I will one day but not now, probably when we're both far away and happy together where no one can bother us.

The sexual tension between both of us can't be missed. Little moments like our hands slightly touching or when he places his hand on my back as I walk ahead of him out of a restaurant or somewhere really public and the eye contact.

Sometimes it gets hard to breathe around him and most times I'm just trying to make sure that history doesn't repeat itself again.

I don't even know how to feel about cheating on Andrew. It feels wierd to admit that I actually cheated, something I never thought I would do. The worst part is that there's nothing good about it. I've felt what I wanted to feel and now all that's left is the guilt.

Miles still has his nightmares at times so it's not as if the sex magically made it disappear. But now he tells me if he has one and we talk about it. He's going through a lot and it hurts me to not be able to do anything but talk to him. I want to do more to help him but I can't.

What also pains me is all this money spent on a wedding that's never going to happen. I would really love to see the reaction on my father's face when he finds out that I'm gone that morning.

I'm definitely not going to leave him hanging though, I'm going to leave a note behind, explaining how sorry I am to him. He'll be angry but he'll cool down eventually.

Dad had given me the time off work, seeing as I have to 'get things for the wedding set' but that didn't stop me from working from home, some days my friends have to drag me out if the house to get something done.

Everyone is around and I must really applaud them for their acting skills, as if the wedding is actually going to happen. When I asked them if they were really okay with going through so much stress for something that's not going to happen, they all told me to shut up, saying that they'd do anything to help me, as long as I'm happy.

The kind of friends I have, I couldn't be more grateful.

Currently I was with my grandma and we were working on the invitation cards. Dad had insisted we sent out invitations to some specific person's so we had to. Even though we're not going to give them the cards but we're going to make dad believe that we have them, we wouldn't want anyone to waste their time coming all the way from wherever to a wedding that won't happen.

I was writing the name of the individuals on the cards while grandma was putting them back into the envelopes.

"I don't want you to hate your father," Nana said, pausing what she was doing.

I looked at her. She knew that the wedding wasn't with Andrew and she hasn't spoken about it since. I've been expecting her to talk since.

"I don't hate him," I said truthfully.

She shook her head and held my hands, stopping me from doing what I was doing. "I know your father may not tell you this but I guess it's time I tell you."

"Okay, what is it." I leaned closer to her.

"So once upon a time there were two friends. Alex Black and Emeka Ezzeh. They met in highschool, they went to the same college and when they were done, the decided to build a business together, a publishing company. Things were going well until one day one ripped the other off. No one knows who ripped who off. And so, the business scattered and they both decided to go their serperate ways and in their anger with each other they both made an oath to themselves that their companies will never be joined together and their children will never see eye to eye so they both went their serperate ways and never spoke to each other again, till they died."

"Now many years after, two girls met in college. Folasade and Katherine, they were and still are best friends and they both started seeing two guys at the same time. Folasade was with Caleb Black and Katherine was with Kenneth Ezzeh. Now the Black's were trained to hate the Ezzeh's and vice versa but when both Sade and Kate came into the picture, Caleb and Kenneth just had to tolerate each other. It was a lose the girlfriend or get the girlfriend situation and of course love always wins.

"That's why both companies aren't merged till date and that's what both your father and Andrew's father is trying to avoid because once you and Andrew get married, there's no way that the companies can stay serperate again because it won't make sense.

"Don't blame your father because it's not his fault really, it's this hate that has been running through his blood ever since it's like a brain cell, it can't be removed and it's pitiful. His father was the same, he always told me about how he hated the Ezzeh's and how it's best we stay away from them. I don't know if you can remember but when you and Andrew started dating, how your father didn't want you to? That's why. Because he knew, they knew that if you two fall in love, there's no going back.

"When you guys broke up before, your father was kind of happy, he was hoping that you would meet someone else and fall in love with that person and forget Andrew, he was even rooting for Adrian. " She laughed lightly at this and I forced a smile. "But he was also sad that you got your heart broken."

She held my hand tighter, "Victoria, your father loves you and I know that it's going to take an intervention from heaven before that hate in his blood dies and I pray everyday for him that that hate wouldn't cause something really bad to happen. But you know what I'm also happy about, that you and your sister and Andrew and his siblings were not raised with that hate and bitterness. I really believe that one day, this rivalry is going to end, it has to end and that's why I believe that God made you and Andrew to be together and honestly what God has joined together, no man can put asunder so just keep holding on to the fact that this wedding is not going to happen. I can just feel it. But that doesn't also mean that you should be careless, hold on to Andrew and even if you guys don't get together in the future, never train your children in the line of hating the Ezzeh's, never."

I nodded, taking in every single word she said. Now everything makes more sense, why my father keeps pushing the wedding. It's not just to keep the company floating it's to honor the oath of his dead ancestor.

But that's why I'm Victoria and I'm nothing like my father, this wedding is definitely not going to work. Even if I can't get to Canada, I'm going to dump Miles at the altar.

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Now everything makes a little more sense. Did you expect or suspect the reason behind all this?

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