SIX

"You may kiss the bride." Lila took a double take at the priest; she definitely remembered telling him to take out that part. She was getting married to him, but there was no way she would be doing anything intimate with him.

"Come on, sweetheart." She saw Levi's expression and could tell that this was his doing. How dare he think of doing something like this?

She turned to the priest and smiled forcefully at him with gritty teeth. "I told you to take out this part."

"Your husband asked me to leave it in."

She turned back to him, ready to rain hell on him. She looked at the congregation, waiting for them to kiss. She knew that anything she did now would be remembered for a long time, and all of these people seated in the church on a Saturday afternoon were there just to know if the two families had gotten together. She pressed her lips and leaned into him.

He held her by the waist and pulled her in. "I am going to kill you," she murmured against his lips.

"How can we make this believable if we do not kiss in front of them?" He murmured back.

She heard the crowd cheer maybe his tactics had worked but he needed to inform her about it before throwing the surprise on her. She took a step back from him and stared him down. He could hear the words violently flying at him from the state.

He cleared his throat and looked away from her to the crowd. He moved closer to close the gap between them and she held the hand he perched across his body. "Shall we?" He murmured gently and she nodded.

The cheering from the crowd did not stop until they were out the door. "Don't ever think of doing anything like this next time" she whispered tilting her head in his direction.

"I know you loved it, it was your shot at... " He trailed off in pain from her fingers holding his skin tightly as she pinched his side.

"Try this again and I might finally live out my dream of getting you killed" she added smiling at the camera that was pointing at them.

"Can you get closer? Act like a couple in love" the photographer said.

Lila took a deep breath she could not believe that their families had gone through all of this trouble for a wedding that would end in would. What was the need for it in the first place? After taking pictures with everyone they headed to the reception venue.

"Spend the rest of the evening being a doll by my side" Levi said as they stood by the door waiting to make an entrance into the party.

Her sisters had been so excited about it that she wondered if they were aware she was getting married to the Beaumont family and not a special person. "A doll?" she scoffed. He turned to her and she could tell that he had said that just to get on her nerves.

"If you wanted a doll, you should have gone to a bar and taken a pimp; I am not a doll, and I would never be one, especially to you," she spat at him.

"Woah, calm down," he said, letting out a short chuckle. "It is so easy to get you riled up," he added.

"Let us just get this over with as soon as possible," she replied, clutching his hand and pinching the inside. He bit the inside of his cheeks to stop himself from screaming out loud.

Soon they were going from table to table, and everyone was praising their maturity in making sure that the feud between families ended. "The both of you getting together just proves that everything is possible as long as you can dare to dream," one man said to them. "Who would have thought that we would ever have both powerful families in the same room at once?" another commented. "The two of you handled the feud of many generations with just a marriage; now the rest of us do not have to walk on eggshells around you."

Lila wanted to burst their bubble and tell them that this was temporary and that they would end up fighting worse than when they first started because of how much they would hate each other at the end of the marriage. There was no way she would let the Beaumont family walk out of this better than her family after this entire show they were putting on.

They all turned to their fathers standing side by side on the stage with the MC by their side clinging to the glass in his hand to alert the attention of the crowd.

"Who ever knew that this day would come?" William said happily. Lila wondered how her father was acting so well, he should take an acting job because he would be so good at it.

"That both families would be ruined like this after being at loggerheads with each other for so many years" Daniel added. Levi and Lila were not left out of the acting as they held hands and smiled at each other. Their families had emphasised the need for the marriage to work, this was a waste of time if it did not work out for them.

"We have been fighting but today I present to you, both families coming together to be a big family" William added. Both men clinged their glasses and then shook their empty hands.

"For that reason, we would love to bestow a very wonderful wedding gift on our children for being the pioneers of both families living in peace" Daniel added and beckoned them to come on stage. They weaved their way from the table where they had been greeting the guests and got on stage with their fathers.

"To show our support for you and your newfound home, we would like to..."

"Hand over the project of Skyline to you and your wife so you can manage" Daniel said cutting off Williams. William swallows to control himself from flaring up and smiles at them. 

"Us?" Lila asked pointing to themselves. 

"Of course, we would not want anyone else to handle it" William replied. 

"That is our gift to you."