The drive down to the wedding venue was a silent one as different thoughts flowed through her head. She had still not figured out why Tom was bent on making her follow him to the wedding when she clearly doesn’t want to go.
It was something that was against her will and she would be lying if she claim not to be disappointed in his rigid decision. Nevertheless, the outcome of the wedding will determine the new turnout of their relationship both as a boss and employee and also as lovers because she’s not ready to date someone who will not reason with her but fix his own decisions on her instead, that kind of relationship is not what she wanted and it is draining.
The drive was a silent one as all she did was stare out of the car’s window to calm herself down a little bit. It wouldn’t be nice for people to start taking notes of her mood or start asking her if she was fine, that would be another whole lots of stress she’s not ready to pass through, not now at all.
After driving for close to an hour, the car finally pulled into the hotel where the wedding ceremony will be taking place. “We are here ma’am” Mr. Joe announced, waking her up from her long thought.
She didn’t even wait for him to help her with the door, she got down from the car and went inside where she met Tom already waiting for her at the lobby. He welcomed her with a soft smile but that went ignored totally by her and he didn’t care, she was here and that was all he needed.
His arm folded into a curve and waited for him to take it so they can walk in together but she hesitated, she didn’t know whether to air him or just move inside on her own but she knows that would be a premium embarrassment for him seeing how people are many around them.
With a broad but fake smile, she finally slid her arm into his and they walked into the hall where they were led to their seat. Joseph was at the front, dressed in a groom’s men suit with the chief bride’s maid while the couple were waiting to be called upon.
Finally they were called upon and they entered glorious. Joy, the fiancée was dazzling in her wedding gown that was personally picked out for her by Amber but instead of her to be proud of her choice, it only reminded her of a very bad memory she didn’t want to remember.
The scenario of that day flashed in her head as she watched the innocent bride walked to the aisle to join the groom, Charles whose expression was dangling between happy and confused. They held hands and turned to take the marriage vows while everyone clapped for them as they finished the vows.
It was time to exchange the ring and he was about to slip the ring on joy’s finger when a strange audio suddenly played over the room.
“What were you talking about earlier during the meal?” Joseph asked
“Oh! I went to the mall with Joy, my fiancée and there was this lady. She is an employee there but oh my gosh! She was so hot. She was curvy and perfect in all areas” Charles answered
Everyone turned in shock as they wondered what was happening, they knew the voice of Charles but some of them couldn’t recognize that it was Joseph. Murmurs filled the room as Charles went into a panic mode, he was flustered and everything about him got disorganize. Even the ring he was about to slip on Joy’s finger dropped from his hand in a flash.
“You beast, do you even love your fiancée like this?” Joseph asked further with a chuckle
“Love? Did you just say love? Come on! Who still feel that these days? If I have anything called love then I won’t be able to enjoy the variety of women outside. She’s not the only one beautiful you know. Any time I see a beautiful lady with the front side in abundance especially, I turn to a fool” Charles stated and they both laughed
At the sound of those words, everyone gasped and the expression of disgust etched on Joy’s face. She could not believe that someone who was about to be her husband was discussing something like that with another man. He even had the gut to say he doesn’t even love her and everyone was surprised at everything they were hearing from the strange audio playing in the hall.
“Do you love the front side that much?” Joseph chuckled and questioned further
“You know that is where the fountain of life is situated. The moment they come in contact with my palms, there is an electrifying feeling that no weed or alcohol can give. Then if I can land my mouth on their doorknobs, that is another heaven. You don’t know how it feels to be brand new when you come back from sucking out of those fountain of life” Charles described with excitement and Joseph clapped before they laughed their lungs out.
“So did Tom do anything to annoy or stop you concerning the employee?” he asked further
“You know I groped her ass a little when I pretended to break the glass of water and she was cleaning it up but she wanted to cause a scene so I threatened them with my position. Tom told her to apologize even though he knew what she was saying was true. I guess he has no choice but to keep quiet and keep the company safe even though it showed through his eyes that day that he wanted to hit me badly” Charles mocked
“He has to lie low because he’s walking on eggshells so he wouldn’t be able to raise an issue. That is what happens if you don’t have enough rights” he said snorted
“We need to put people like them in their places so they will learn that they are nothing but a puppet in a box. If they try to come out of the box then they will have no choice but to die or tear out the box” Charles and Joseph snapped his fingers in agreement.
“That is exactly how it is” he said and the sound of their glasses clinking was heard before the audio went silent.
He was about explaining himself to Joy who was furious about everything she just heard when she slapped him hard across the face. Petals of the bridal bouquet flew everywhere as she bruised his head hard with the bouquet she was holding.
Commotion filled everywhere as everyone started gossiping about the audio, even the reporters that came to grace the occasion didn’t hesitate to post the juicy story online alongside the recording that was played in the hall.
Joy didn’t hesitate before she kicked off the decors that was around the area she was standing and turned to leave the altar when the team leader at the company came in with two policemen. As if the previous drama was not enough, he was charged with sexual harassment.
“This is my boss who is always harassing me at any given chance at the office” she declared, clearly pointing fingers at him.
He shouted to refute the claim, screaming on top of his voice that it was a slander but no one was ready to listen to him, not after what just happened. The police officers walked up to him with an arrest warrant and told him to cooperate.
“Do you know the son of who I am? Do you know my father? How dare you arrest me?” he protested but a voice interrupted him. “Arrest him and take him away” the familiar voice ordered. He looked back to see his father fuming angrily as he commanded the police officers to take him away.
With all the noises and confusion happening in the hall, Tom was just busy slicing his steak that was served to them as soon as they entered. He silently fed every piece he had cut to his mouth with an evil smirk lingering at the corner of his lips. Amber was scared and confused about everything that was going on until her eyes landed on the smirk Tom was wearing.
“The recording, did you do it?” she asked, her voice getting shaky with her sweaty hands.
“Did you enjoy the show? What do you think about it? Does it lessen your anger or do you still feel I brought you here to remind you of the bad memories?” he asked, as calm as possible without stopping his food.
She was dumbfounded at the action. Mixed emotions rushed through her as she didn’t know if she should feel happy that he was exposed or feel sad for Joy’s wedding getting ruined. She now realized that was the main reason why he insisted on her coming over to the wedding. He wanted to carry out her revenge on his behalf.
“Even though I am eager to make him get punished, I still didn’t want it this way. Someone’s wedding just got ruined because you chose the wrong revenge” she lashed out at him and stormed out of the party hall, leaving him behind in anger.