018: To New Beginnings (IV)

"Please, tell me that this is not real!" 

Rage filled words left his lips while his eyes stayed glued to his mother's face. He had only stepped inside the tall and wide building he used to call home when his own mother had dropped a bomb on him.

Claude was looking forward to correcting some of his wrongs, but now that he was looking at things, he had lost the chance to make amends. He was instead left to deal with the kind of people he detested the most. His mother had taken it on herself to arrange an event for the couple. Not only that, she made sure that some top news channel representatives were invited to cover the event as well. 

She wanted to use this opportunity to announce it to the world that her one and only beloved son had finally tied the knot. That too with a lady who came from an influential background, and was no less the manifestation of grace itself. 

"You told me tha