Taming the Bitch (COMPLETED) Wattys2018

Chapter XVI - Châteaux

Vincent could only stare at Gabrielle as the plane slowly lands on the middle of what seemed to be an old castle in London.

She's never said or spoken even a word since they got into the private jet of her father that has taken them to London.

She remained just staring at the window with a very grim expression written all over her beautiful face. He is sitting on the sofa just in front of the reclining chair she is resting on. She had been frighteningly silent all throughout their trip. Her only movement involves just her breathing pattern and a few sobs.

Now as he looks at her, he can see how much sadness there is in her eyes as she continues to look out the window.

"Ladies and gentlemen, we are now landing in the Dover castle in England. Please keep your seatbelt fastened until we land safely."

The jet shakes a little as it lands in the middle of the vast green grass a few meters away from the palace.

Vincent waited for the plane's engine to finally stop as he stares at the unmoving fiancée in front of him. He couldn't even be sure if she's even aware that they've landed.

All she ever did was stare out the window with a very grim expression.

"Gab... we've landed..." he'd stood up in front of her and says making her clench her jaws and turn her pretty little head to glare at him.

"This used to be the best place for me on Earth... this châteaux holds...held" she corrects herself flinching as memories flash in her mind. Memories of how lovely her imperfect childhood was in this castle.

"The most beautiful memories I had as a child... how ironic that it will also hold the worst part of my life now. Marrying a paid swine like you in exactly the same place where I was born and raised." She said in an angry whisper as if she's talking just to herself before she puts her arms on the armrest of the chair and pushes herself up to stand up.

Pushing him with her cold shoulders, Gabrielle walks past him with heavy footsteps towards the exit of the plane before she marches her way down to the field of green grass. Not even bothering to say hi to the maids that run towards her excitedly. She just walks past them which made them stop and look at each other. Vincent decided then to go down and follow her tracks as she is now entering the huge gate leading you to the inside of the old chateaux.

She stopped briefly, letting everything in to her system as she looks at how the huge empty space in the middle of the château looks like now. The reception...

Half of it is now decorated with different flowers, mostly pink tulips and white roses. The tall secret wall serves as the background to the golden gazebo they placed where a stage is set. In the middle of the stage is a rose gold Cleopatra chair resting below a stunning Swarovski chandelier.

She never for once thought that her father could have someone arrange such a nice reception for her wedding...

Who would've thought that her father actually has a taste and in fact, could surprise his daughter with what would have seemed a dream wedding with all the arrangement in the reception she is seeing now.

Only that, of course, even if the reception is so fantastic, she can't consider this a dream wedding. For the man she is about to marry is actually not even her boyfriend to begin with.

Just a swine...

A paid swine, a money-controlled robot who...

She looks up to the man standing next to her and feels as if her heart was pierced. The anger she has towards him for just letting all this happen and not even saying anything to stop it from the beginning is so much. He could've been the one to say no to this in the first place, but him being with her now in this old castle, ready to say his "I do" the next morning only shows how selfish he is...