Maid Bride

Chapter 4

Athena's POV

Yesterday I went with Agatha for wedding shopping. It was so disastrous and humiliating. I tried hundreds of dresses to meet Agatha's expectations. Every time when I come out of the dressing room she would leave nasty comments in front of the workers and publicly embarrass me.

She bought a costly wedding dress for me because she doesn't want to get embarrassed in front of her friends when I wear a cheap wedding dress and also the wedding photos would be all over the media.

Thinking about tomorrow's event is killing me. I can't even escape from this entry to my hell. I can't imagine myself to be the wife of Joshua.
The only thing I have confidence in this marriage is that in the end I will be broken like how Joshua wanted me to be.

I dreamed of marriage as a sacred bonding of two people who believes in each other with trust, harmony and most importantly love. Trust, harmony, and love are three keys to a successful marriage when any one of them is broken then that relationship is broken too.
I can't expect Joshua to be at least loyal with me because of his never-ending flings. If I remember correctly he had slept with a girl yesterday too.

Tonight we are traveling to New York because Uncle Robert wants the marriage to take place at his favorite church in New York which is also near to Joshua's new mansion.
I have never set my foot on an airplane and thinking about traveling in an airplane is pulling my nerves out. I have watched way too many airplane crashing documentaries in national geographic and truth to be told the crashes takes place due to silly reasons like a bird hitting the plane, windows being broken and more.

Since I have packed my bags and have no work to do I walked to garden in front of the Walker mansion. There is a wide variety of colorful flowers and bushes which will take your breath away. All these were planted by Uncle Stephen who is the Gardner. He never allows anyone to pluck at least a leaf from the garden because he loves the flowers and bushes as his beloved.

I sat on the wooden bench which is facing the army of white and yellow lilacs. The flowers were dancing in harmony along with the warm wind of the evening. The sky looks amazing as the sun was trying to run away to give us a delightful night.

Suddenly I felt someone pat on my shoulder. As I turned to look at the owner of the hands, I saw uncle Robert smiling brightly. I returned him a smile and offered him to sit beside me.
I noticed that he was having a shopping bag in his hand. I looked at him questioning what was inside the shopping bag.

As the answer to my question, he moved that shopping bag towards me. I took it with hesitation and opened it slowly.

I saw a white box on which there was a mobile phone's photo and on the side, it was written iPhoneX.

"Ena, I noticed that you don't have a phone and I decided to get you one," he told as he saw my shocked face.

"But why did you get me this one? It looks kind of expensive as I have seen my billboards with this brand of phones" I stated as a matter of fact. I have seen a similar phone with Joshua.

" Ena, I could get you thousands of this brand's product and take this as my pre-wedding present," he said as he let out a chuckle.

When I heard pre-wedding present my face had drained its color and became pale and I could feel my hairs standing up.

Uncle Robert has noticed the discomfort on my face as he let out about the wedding. This wedding means giving myself to kill and destroying every bit of my existence.

" Joshua might misbehave at first but I ensure you, Athena, that he will come to you at the end. He will love you infinitely and more. Please do forgive his stupid and idiotic actions for me. Once he realizes how precious you are he is not going to leave you behind." Uncle Roberts said as he held my hand in a promising manner.