After My Groom Betrayed Me, I Took His Best Man

Elowen's POV"Dad," the words failed me. Were they really about to cancel my wedding for Lilith's sake?I had planned and scheduled this wedding at different times and had to move it for her sake, Dad had insisted she be my chief bride's maid.First it was that she had exams in school then her project defence was too close to the date then they had to prepare for her convocation then her master's degree so she had to travel for a year and I had waited out all the excuses yet they were canceling my wedding for hers.Tsk. Lilith didn't even have a serious relationship to begin with. I folded my arms across my chest and waited for the new story."You're giving out your precious daughter so quickly in marriage all because she wants my wedding date not so? And my wedding dress was the best fit for your emergency arrangement. How nice." I shook my head.It was barely a surprise but I didn't expect they'd go that far to be that cruel to me."Lilith is sick, Elowen." The words rolled out of D

RYAN POVThat was when I saw her. I had been watching her like a hawk.Long black hair cascading down her back like tendrils, soft olive skin and..."That's enough for one night," I canceled her order. She looked wasted though she tried to act like she was OK."What are you doing?" She scolded me when I wouldn't let the bartender serve her another shot of tequila."Saving you. You're welcome." I smiled."Who do you think you are? Stupid gender that thinks they can tell me how to live my life," she cursed and I knew a man had wronged her.I pulled a stool closer to hers and sat, my elbow leaned on the counter as I sat facing her."Just call me a friend of the night for now." It was shocking that she could ask who I was, proof she was completely drunk."Whatever, I'm Elowen and you?" She held out a hand to me, her speech slurred."Ryan. Nice to meet you." My eyes danced with humor. De javu. Exactly the same way we met the first time years ago."Ryan, I know ‘a Ryan’ but he's a son of a

OWEN"She wasn't bluffing..." My voice trailed as my eyes read through the print on the papers. "She actually did it." I lowered the papers to the table, not sure of how I felt.My head was spiraling with the incompetences I had hired and fired continuously while looking for a replacement for El.Now, there was this.My eyes instinctively lowered to the table and I sighed. Propping my head on my elbow, my eyes roamed the interior decoration of my home study.My life was not as rosy as I had expected it to be, it was making me crazy—it was making me mad that I couldn't control how bad things were going. I had always wanted to be in control of everything, anyhow, in all ways possible.I tapped my hands vigorously on the table.I would call the company attorney, maybe he would know what to do—no, he should have known what to do. It was his damn job.I punched in his name and dialed his number."Felix, we have a problem," I said immediately as the call went through."I'm staring at it on

OWENAs if managing a company with incompetencee as staffs was not enough,As if handling a law suit and having to share my entire shares and assets with my ex fiancée was not enough,I was losing my company numbers as well.I closed my laptop shut. Looking at the company charts for this month was a sore for my eyes. How could a lawsuit this minimal cause this much damage?I ran my hand through my hair and sighed... Could this get any worse?I raised the glass cup to my lips, shutting my eyes as the hot liquid ran down my throat. I can still salvage this... This was nothing. How could Elowen get so cold? How could she do this to me?I know there's still the Elowen I fell in love with five years ago there somewhere... She can't possibly be mad at me just because I fulfilled her sister's dying wish. She's not that heartless.The ringtone of my cell phone disrupted my thoughts. I dropped the glass cup on the side table and reached for my phone on the center piece."Hello?" I pressed

LILITH Elowen? Half of Owen's shares and assets?I was going mad hearing this. I did everything humanly possible to take everything away from her.How was she still standing? What was giving her the courage to do this?Knowing my sister, she broke down at every time I was able to manipulate mom and dad into giving me something that originally belonged to her.Why was this time different?? I took her wedding and her man. How was she still strong enough for a comeback?Something was wrong somewhere and I was going to get the bottom of it, one way or other.I dropped my cup of coffee on the mahogany table and walked straight to the table where my laptop was.Grabbing it from the table, I walked to the bed, laid down and pulled open the laptop. "Time to search for some dirt," I typed in Elowen's name, hitting search.I scrolled through for a while, all I could see were her successes. "There has to be something I could use here." I kept scrolling down the webpage.Getting to the end,