the staircase but I had heard enough to have me s

ot to the bottom of the stairs, he only did that when

e's attention turned to me in no time. My dad looked

's tradition for their first son to marry a first daughter and not the second

he preparation process. I and David are getting married

just say what I thought she

on the wedding, it has nothing to do with his parents or

aughter, I honestly don't know why you bothered bringing yourself so low to try to change David's mind, you tried to seduce him into m

avid for five years, we were engaged now and everybody knew that, and

of my name, no pictures of us. "You don't need a swarm of paparazzi everywhere you go, now do you darling?" My step mother had said when I asked he

knew all this while. When he made me have an abortion because his parents would not want pregnancy controversy surrounding their family name, he knew. Whe

hen he watched me almost bl

ne he was getting married to. The first tear dropp

at me, she was not even att

g with him through my eyes. For a split, I saw his resolve falte

wouldn't want anything messy getting out to the public. The Woods reputation is not one to be toyed with." My step

sure I and David w

ff by holdin

his attention, cau

nickname he frequently called me. It sounded like po

David's PA, Robert, he was standing at the corner of where David had previously sat. I had

regret, uncertainty, perhaps the love she could always see so glaringly in Da

ike I was looking into a completely different

toppling over my own feet when I turned around. In a flash, I grabbed my key

e wide compound to the gate. The men at the gate scrambled to o

st before I took a turn into the highway. It disappeared from my view making me let out a breath in rel

to that truck, I would quickl

d bitterly, th

is go