The Billionaire's heart (The Billionaire Love #3 )

Chapter 13

A Red Wedding

She was looking at me angrily as she walked towards me in the dress, I chose for her. She looked exquisite. But she looked so angry, I wonder why. I wonder why is it so? I have to know. "You don't look happy baby? Is there something wrong?" I asked. "Yes, everything is wrong and sadly everything that is wrong is associated with you." She told me.

"Now, Love let's not argue about this, tell me what is that you seek and I will try my best to solve your problem." I told her. "My problem is this dress makes me looks like a barbie and I hate being a barbie." I told him. "That is not a problem love, I think you look fine. I think you look rather exquisite" I told her. Then I showed her the clock. "Oh, look at the clock, how time flies when we are quarrelling. I found it rather amusing then to attained any wedding My dear but I am afraid your queries and you complains have to wait for the time we return back."

She huffed and took her heels. I stopped her and sat down. I put her foot over my thigh and slowly slid her shoe on. "Now, that looks perfect. I think you need one more thing," I said getting up. "What?" She asked. I pulled a corsage from the box and put it on her hand. "Now this looks perfect." She looked up shyly. "How do you know that?" She asked. "Because someday, I want to see my bride walking towards me just like this." She gasped.

"You want to marry me?" She asked. "No, I said my bride, that means the girl who want to marry me back Miss Morgan and last time I checked you do not want to do anything with me, do you?" I asked standing up. She stood up and looked at me. "Yes, you are right you should marry the girl who wants to marry you too. It doesn't work just one way it has to work both ways." Did I feel my heart break all over again? Yes, I think so.

"I guess that concludes our business then, Miss Morgan. I think we should leave now; I do not wish to be late for this wedding at least." I told her. She didn't argue after that. I think she was lost in her own thoughts, I remember she was quite tensed while she had heard the name King, while she had seen my mother and then her adverse reaction I wonder what had happened , why she is so much tensed around this name what is that she is hiding from me.

The venue came too quickly for my liking. She didn't talk to me at all. I wanted to say sorry to her, apologize for everything. But then she will go away knowing that I don't want to take my chances. I want her to stay here with me. And for that I am willing do anything it takes. I cannot let her go. The car stopped and she looked at me. I walked out and gone to her side. I opened the door to her room and held out my hand. She took it and walked beside me.

Her steps fell beside me, she didn't even realise how out of sync my life becomes without her. She is like the storm, that takes away every sense, every reason out of my system. I know this is not good, but maybe I don't want to have anything good in my life. Maybe I want to have something bad maybe the good is too hard to digest for me now a days. Yes, she is bad for my health and my mental peace but when I have her near me, I don't want anything but her.

My sister was the first to notice me. I smiled at her and she smiled back. I walked towards the seat behind her, "Stay here Love, I will be back. I need to meet Katie and tell her that I have arrived" She nodded not creating a scene thankfully for calling her love. I walked into the dressing room and saw Katie was ready for her big day. She looked at me and smiled. "You came" She hugged me. "How can I not? After all you were there for me through all my thick and thins, I can never abandon you Katie." I told her.

"And are you happy finally?" Katie asked. "happiness is just a relative term; I can be happy if I wish to. I just don't have the strength to wish anymore. So, I am like this but don't feel sorry for me Katie, I am good as I am and she is something that I think can make me happy in the long run." She smiled. "I know you will find your happiness eventually Sam, you are a good man, a good brother, a good friend." I smiled at her softly kissing the top of her head. "And you too are very good friend Katie."

The bridal march started and I walked beside Katie. She asked me to give her away instead of her father. For a reason I and she kept it hidden inside our hearts. It is our secret to share. Everyone stood up and she entered the church. My family members were shocked seeing us walking side by side. Oh, I haven't told them about this little detail, did I? I might just have forgotten it. But it's alright, they will recover from this shock.

I walked her to her husband and gave her hand in his. She smiled kissing my cheek. And surprised me by stealing a kiss from my lips. "Thank you for everything Sam, I can never ever have a friend like you." I nodded and gone back to my seat. No, I wasn't sitting beside any of my family instead I was sitting at the front seat so that I can enjoy the entire ceremony. Her husband was my long-time partner David Nolen. And he knows too about everything that had gone down with us. So, he never had any doubts over us and the friendship we share.

But I don't think everyone is happy knowing this stunt she pulled. I know one person who will not be happy, I know this very well. I know it that is why I think she will be angrier now. Katie knows very well how to strike. And when to strike. And she strikes to the point which is if you know is very much deadly. I smiled at her as I saw her taking her vows. I can only wish someday it would be me. Someday, someone would be brave enough to accept me and my darkness,

Then my eyes fell on her and I found out that her eyes were boring into mine. She was not very happy that I am away from her. But she had pushed me away. As the ceremony progressed, I have found out that I was unable to look away. 

She didn't avert her gaze. Suddenly I wanted to run away with her. And then I wanted to never let her go, No I don't wish to let her walk away from me never ever in this life or next. I have to know what is about to go down. Then they said I do. It was the most memorable moment in my life.

Suddenly everyone turned silent. Or was I just imagining it? I hope I am not just imagining it. "So, here you are getting married aren't you darling?" I know that voice very well. "And this boy is also here, was he the one who had given you to your husband? I guess you don't need daddy after all baby girl." I was up on my feet and stood in front of him. "No One needs you here Raymond, you might just want to leave." I told him in low voice.

"Look at you Samuel Richard Prince, oh sorry you go by King now, don't you? You broke bread in my house as a stable boy and you ran away with my daughter? How could you? I have trusted you. But you... you have ruined everything." "Raymond, I have respected you for a long time and you know very well that why we have run away. Don't make me..." He pushed me away. I stumbled back.

"You have no right to push him like that" Katie spoke. "Oh, I don't and you are going to argue with me for this stable boy? You never did respect your father, did you?" He tried to hit her but I had held his hand. "Don't even think about it. "You don't get to hit her. You don't get to yell at her." I told him. "So, you are the saviour still? Tell me something Stable boy. Does he know exactly what relation you share with his wife? Do he know about your affairs?" He asked.

"I don't have to explain it to you. I don't have to tell you anything about us. A black hearted man will never understand what we share. Now get out before I throw you out." I threatened. He pulled his gun and pointed it on me. Everyone turned deathly pale. "You don't get to tell me a word stable boy, you don't get to say a word got that? You are not going to say a word." He said. "Now, I am going to take her away, my daughter, she will come with me and then she will never return here."

"Over my dead body Raymond, you will be taking her away." He smiled. "Gladly stable boy and the gun was fired, I felt something, pain, spreading over my body like wild fire. Katie and David held me in their arms my sister ran towards me and she, she was shocked looing at me. I saw it a lone tear escaping her eye. Ezra and Lucian tackled Raymond disarming him. Yes, this is my family may not be perfect as everyone's but they are perfect for me.

"Why you did this?" Katie asked. "Because I love you Katie, I always have, may not as a lover but you are my best friend, and how can I break the promise to only person who had welcomed me in her home without question? This was her wish Katie, and that is why I will always keep your life before mine."

"You fool" I heard Iris curse as tears escaped her eyes. "Put pressure on his wound. We need to hospitalize him immediately." She said looking into my eyes. I smiled. "Sam you are not going to die, not on my watch, you hear me?" She told me. "Yes, Miss Morgan" I told her as she sat beside me on the ambulance. Her face and the sirens were last thing I remember before I closed my eyes. 

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