“Good boy.” Emily chuckled and rushed upstairs to take her bath.
“So, do you want this one or this one?” Emily asked Little Pumpkin, touching two tuxedos at a time.
After she had her bath, she had driven out of the villa with Little Pumpkin to shop for him. Immediately they arrived at EWSM, with the help of an assistant, they had walked straight to the tuxedos’ line.
“Hmm…” Little Pumpkin placed his index finger on his lips as he stared at the two tuxedos.
One was blue and the other was white. He loved both colors, and now, he was being indecisive.
Noticing the expression on Little Pumpkin’s face, Emily chuckled.
After a short while, she smiled. “You know what, let’s just buy the two of ’em.”
Little Pumpkin jumped up delightedly. “Yay!”
Emily wrapped the two tuxedos and together with Little Pumpkin, they headed towards the cashier.
With the debit card, Emily paid for the tuxedos.
“Erm, my darling, do you know that you own this place?” Emily whispered into Little Pumpkin’s ear as they walked out of the mall.
Little Pumpkin nodded his head. “Nde noona. I’ve been here once, and I always see it on TV.”
“Mbo? Why once?” Emily asked, dropping the bag of tuxedos in the back seat of the car.
Little Pumpkin’s face fell, “my mum was only able to bring me here once before she died.”
“Ah…”Emily stuttered.
“Ahh, mianhae. I didn’t know-I really didn’t know.” She rushed out at once, shaking her hands in the air.
Little Pumpkin smiled. “Gwenchana noona.”
Emily frowned as she watched the little guy get in the car.
‘It must be hard for him.’ She thought sadly.
“Noona, kaja.” Little Pumpkin waving his hand at her, signaling for them to get going drifted Emily out of her thoughts.
Emily smiled and nodded her head in approval. “Hmmm.”
She walked round the car to the driver’s side and got in.
“Where have you been?” Joel asked
poutily. He was seated in one of the armchairs in the lounge.
“We went to get some stuff. Wae?” Emily pouted.
“Aishhh. Who did you buy tuxedos for? This guy? Is he going to be your date tonight?” Joel stood up on his feet, hands akimbo.
“Yah, why are you being so childish?” Emily sneered.
“Mbo? Me? Childish, ani. I’m just…” Joel dried up.
Emily shook her head as she watched her boyfriend rant.
Emily smiled cutely at Little Pumpkin. “Little Pumpkin, just go to your room and rest.”
“Nde.” Little Pumpkin nodded and headed towards his room.
As he passed by his uncle, he threw him daggers with his look.
The man was always ruining his dates with his pretty noona.
Joel returned his little nephew’s look with a murdering one.
The boy was always stealing his wife!
Well, they weren’t married yet but they would be in a few hours time, so…
“Why are you staring at the poor boy like that?” Emily drifted Joel out of his thought and he quickly looked up at her.
“Come here…” Joel walked towards her and pulled her upstairs to his room.
As soon as they walked into his room, he handed some boxes over to Emily. “Here.”
“What?..” Emily asked, referring to the boxes in her hands.
“You stuff.” Joel smiled.
“What stuff?” Emily asked.
Joel rolled his eyes, the she-devil could sure pretend to be dumb at times.
“The clothes and shoes and jewelries you’ll be wearing tonight.” Joel replied anyways.
Emily nodded her head. “Ahhh…”
She smiled cutely, gazing at the boxes in her hands. “Kumawo.”
“Uhn…. time is far spent.” Joel said, stealing a glance at the wall clock.
“Kaja, let’s go get married.” He grinned.
Emily blushed and rushed quickly to her room to drop the boxes. She rushed back and they both descended the stairs.
Danielle furrowed her brows as she peeped through the little space between her slightly opened door.
“I heard something like marriage…” She muttered inaudibly.
“Are they getting married soon?” She bit a corner of her lips.
“Unbelievable! That wretched thing!” Danielle spat out, closing her door behind her.
Suddenly, she smiled. “Well, that won’t be happening, since Andrew is abducting her tonight.”
“Yes, that place. Write your name there.” Joel replied to Emily’s question.
They had gotten to the registry office and were now filling their forms.
“Are you sure you really want to get married?” The marriage registrar asked them as soon as they were done filling their forms.
“Nde.” Joel replied.
“Miss?” The registrar turned to face Emily.
With a pounding heart, after a while, Emily replied with a yes.
“I hereby confirm you both as husband and wife.” The registrar spoke jokingly.
He stamped and signed their certificates after going through the marriage license.
Without much ado, their marriage certificates got photocopied.
The registrar kept the photocopies with him and handed the original copies over to the couple.
Emily breathed out as soon as they stepped out of the registry office. “Ahhhh…”
Joel smiled, was the she-devil nervous?
For the first time in his life, even he too had been nervous while he was filling the marriage certificate.
“It’s evening already.” Joel stated as he drove them back to the villa.
Emily couldn’t take her eyes off her marriage certificate as she kept reading it over and over again.
“Wae? Why have you been staring at it?” Joel asked, taking his eyes off the road for a second.
“Hmm… nothing. ” Emily smiled and headed out a sigh.
Joel smiled and reached out for Emily’s left hand with his right hand.
“It’s okay. I will never leave you. I swear on my parent’s grave.” He stroked the back of her hand assuringly.
“…” Emily nodded her head and smeared the tear thar escaped from her eyes with her right hand.
“Thank you.” She finally spoke up.
“Thank you too.” Joel smiled and smooched her hand.
Emily smiled wholeheartedly and breathed out a sigh of relief.
Joel honked his horn as he drove into the villa.
It was nightfall already, and the party would be starting soon.
The newly married couple stepped out of the car and headed into the lounge.
Knowing Little Pumpkin wouldn’t let anyone dress him, Emily hastily rushed upstairs to keep her marriage certificate and rushed back downstairs, to Little Pumpkin’s room to get his dressed up for the occasion.
Michael’s heartbeat raced as he walked into he took a shower.
It was showtime that night.
He was going to be seeing the love of his life again.
He prayed inwardly that everything goes smoothly as planned.
After they got dressed up, the five people living in the villa stepped out of their rooms and took turns to head out of the villa.
Joel was dressed in a wine tuxedo, his hair nearly permed, looking more handsome than ever.
Emily was clad in a white shirt and a black skirt. She had a black wedge on and a black purse in her hand. With her light makeup, she still looked gorgeous.
Emily pouted her lips as soon as she saw Michael walk out of the lounge with Little Pumpkin. “Uhn oppa, you said you weren’t going…”
Michael was dressed in a black tuxedo, looking heavenly handsome.
Little Pumpkin was clad in a fitted white tuxedo, looking even more heavenly than his father.
Michael chuckled. “Ah, I changed my mind.”
“It’s okay. Since you are going, there is no problem.” Emily chirped.
Michael smiled and helped Little Pumpkin into the car. He exchanged knowing looks with Joel and also stepped into the car. His chauffeur then drove out of the villa.
Since they didn’t want paparazzi suspecting anything, Joel and Emily decided to go in different cars.
Emily was taking her car while Joel was taking one of the cars in the garage, both of them with their chauffeurs.
Joel let Emily’s car drive out of the villa first before stepping into the car.
As soon as he settled in the car, his chauffeur drove out of the villa.
One last person stepped out of the lounge and looked around, Joel had actually left without her. Such a shame.
Danielle was dressed in a dazzling red gown, with a black high heeled shoe, a black purse and a muffler on her neck.
She had a breathtaking makeup on and she looked breathtakingly beautiful.
She fought back the tears that were threatening to be let out and stepped into her car that had just been driven out of the garage.
Her chauffeur also took turn and drove out of the villa.
Out of the five, Michael and Little Pumpkin were the first two to arrive at the party.
“Michael Manchester is around!!” Paparazzi flooded around Michael as soon as he stepped out of his car with Little Pumpkin.
“-With Andrew Manchester, his son!!!” They clicked on their shutters buttons, snapping every movement of the father and son.
With bodyguards guiding them, Michael and his son were able to get into the building without much interrogations.
The duo stepped on the red carpet, posed with their handsome faces.
“what about the CEO?”
“Isn’t he coming?”
“How much is the wrist watch you are wearing?”
“Andrew is here, where is his mother?”
“You are both looking dazzling”
“Mr Michael why did you hand over your position as the chief executive director of Empire World Corporation to your brother? You never really told us!”
“Mr. Michael is your wife still not back from where she travelled to?!”