~AUDRINA~"You disgrace me! You embarrass me! In our home and now outside? You are an embarrassment.” My father spat as he sat down at the front of the pew with his hands crossed in front of him, anger sitting in his eyes.“Father,” I started to say, but he raised his hands in the air and stopped me from saying yet another word."Oh, I don’t want to hear another word from your lips,” he said, silencing me instantly.“How dare you?”“How dare you even think that for a small second I would allow you to call me father? Or call me anything affectionate, for that matter?” he said, and I started to shrink back into my shell.“I am appalled to even call you my child. Left to me, you don’t even exist, and I can see all the reasons why this makes a lot of sense,” he said, and I wanted to ask him why he was also adding to my misery when I was currently fighting Paige to let me go.“Father, Paige is lying about all of this,” I said, trying to even save my skin, even if it was a little bit, but n

~Audrina~We all waited in the banquet hall. The tension was on everyone. What was he going to look like? became the disturbing question that pricked my heart. I could clearly hear the gossip from the exotic guests who kept staring at me."I heard he is very ugly; it's such a pity." I heard a voice say, but I remained calm and told her not to have heard a word."Perhaps that's why he always wears a mask. I feel pity for Audrina; she deserves someone far more handsome than an ugly prick," another voice said.I turned around and locked eyes with the very people who gossiped with reckless abandon."Why don't you wait and see what he actually looks like before opening your mouth to speak ill about him? Pity your words before my future," I said with a clenched fist.James walked in and everywhere became dead silent; his presence brought a different aura, and of course, everyone, including me, was eager to see the face beneath the mask. My skin itched to touch his face. He slowly walked to

~Audrina~Mabel's face was redder than a tomato. This was the angriest I'd seen her get, and the fact that it was on my behalf sent waves of happiness through me."Well then, with the evidence before our eyes, what do you have to say for yourself?" Mabel glared daggers at Paige, whose mouth still dangled open with shock.Color flooded her cheeks at the embarrassment, and her eyes flashed dangerously, like she was blinking tears.The whole situation was comical."It's a fake! That never happened," Paige sputtered, turning around to catch every eye like that would show how innocent she was. Which she clearly was not."Spare us the crap, girl! That's clearly you and Nicholas in the video disgustingly going at it," Mabel pointed at the screen, and Paige flushed an even darker red.Nicholas looked ready to bolt out of the room."Do you have no shame, girl? In the hallway of all places? How classless could you be?" Mabel gave Paige a once-over that literally made Paige shrink a size smaller

"Before today, I didn't know you were that man I slept with that day. But now that I know, it messes a lot of things up." I began.James narrowed his eyes and walked over to his desk, but said nothing.The silence urged me to continue."In the marriage contract, there's a clause that says we will get divorced after three years, and the baby will be mine," I said as gently as possible.James sprang to his feet, eyes wide open."What?! That's not possible!"I let him talk."That's not possible! I drew that contract; don't you think I wouldn't make such a grave mistake?" He pointed it out.I sighed."Well, I don't know who made the mistake, but it's there, and it's there. You can check it later if you think I'm lying. After three years, we're going to go out separate ways, me with the baby in my belly. I thought I would point it out to you so you wouldn't say I deceived you in later days." I calmly said.James was pacing now.I was glad I didn't go ahead with the wedding. If this was how

~James~I stared at Audrina as she slept peacefully. My heart was filled with rage over what happened at the ceremony, and I couldn't get enough of the constant flashes of the past event in my head. It taunted me like a demon, and as I stared with a clenched fist, my heart raced with more anger, and I felt like teaching her a lesson. She slowly woke up and stared at me before covering herself with the duvet. I stood and gazed as her body moved underneath the duvet."Why are you staring at me like that?" she asked."Running through some thoughts, things that happened, and what's bound to happen""What does that even mean? Why speak in riddles when you can just tell me what's wrong and get over with it?""I should get over it, you say; it's so easy for you to say underneath that duvet.""James, I'm not in the mood for this; I'm tired and I need to sleep. You can stare at me all you want, and it won't get anything."I thought hard about what she said and smiled. An idea struck me hard, l