Chapter 6 The Wedding Surprise

6 Months Later- The Wedding Surprise.

There is no pain in life that a woman suffers more than marrying someone she doesn't love deep down in her heart. However, because of the family pressures that a woman faces during the time of the selection of a spouse, the challenges and difficulties always meddle in the middle of a woman's life as she is about to choose the partner of her life despite the external pressure that she might get alone the way when choosing the man she loves. But in reality, Love isn't something that is forced on someone.

The guests are on their chairs, sitting down around the wedding altar as the priest is standing while holding his bible in his hand, looking at the groom and bride standing together as they stare towards each other with smiles on their faces with the SUV cars parking beside the wedding altar as the wedding ceremony proceeds.

"Today! Ladies and gentlemen, we have gathered to celebrate one of the special days for the two standing here on the altar..."

As the priest speaks at the altar, standing together with the bride and the groom at the wedding ceremony. Suddenly a group of men wearing long black coats, holding the guns in their hands approaches the wedding altar closely. Walking in puffiness with their cigarettes pinched in the middle of their teeth as the wedding ceremony proceeds.

"Every man and woman has to consider getting married as soon as their age and their time approaches. This is one commandment that has been relieved by God himself..."

With her white wedding gown dress and red lipstick smeared all over her thin lips, Camilla looks dull on the face. Not satisfied with the outcome of her wedding day as she stares at her wedding groom while forcing a smile on her face. The smile with no contentment inside her heart.

"Dear lord! Is this what you have installed for me? To marry a man who I don't love at all?" Camilla speaks to her thoughts, lost in thoughts as she looks at her father shyly while her father stares at her coldly as the wedding ceremony proceeds.

"Mr. Albert, do you take Camilla as your wife? For the good and the bad times in your lives till death spills you apart?" The priest's question leaves Camilla feeling dazed while looking at her groom with fear creeping inside her heart. The statement feels like a death wish for her since she didn't expect that everything would go according to her plans, and she had no choice but to marry Albert.

Albert takes a glance at his father with a broad smile on his face and then returns his gaze to the priest. "Yes priest, I do."

The smiles of guests sitting around the wedding altar widen suddenly while some guests murmur with small inaudible voices as the wedding ceremony proceeds.

The priest then turns and looks at Camilla. "And you, Mrs. Camilla, are you ready to take Mr. Albert as your rightful husband? For the good and bad, and the highs and lows until death spills you apart?"

The priest's question feels heavy on Camilla's shoulder as she looks at the priest while mumbling. "I... I" The answers throughout Camilla's mouth refuse to come with ease as the palms of her hands sweat rapidly as the priest and the wedding groom look at her.

As the guests around the wedding altar are waiting for Camilla's response with all the anticipation for the marriage ceremony to be over, unfortunately Camilla's words refuse to come out of her mouth, making everyone around the wedding altar quite confused and a little sceptical towards her reaction since this is a little quite unusual.

"Camilla, are you alright, darling?" The priest asks, looking at Camilla with a puzzled look.

Camilla takes a glance at her father, not satisfied with what she sees as Mateo looks at Camilla with a scrunched look on his face and the burning anguish inside his heart.

Camilla breathes out and then looks at Albert. "Yes, I'm all right! Let's continue with the wedding."

The balloons around the wedding altar decoration start to swing in a zigzag manner with the pressure of the wind while the leaves of the trees drop down in slow motion as the wedding proceeds with the whispering sound of the wind blowing at the wedding altar.

"Okay, I'm repeating Mrs. Camilla, do you accept.."

Before the priest finishes talking, suddenly the group of men arrive at the wedding altar with their shoes crunching the dry grasses and small woods surrounding the wedding altar. making a popping sound as the man continues walking.

"Good evening, everyone!" One of the Mafia Gang members greets. Causing everyone at the wedding to startle a bit.

When the guests hear the voices of footsteps coming in their direction, they all turn their heads, looking behind their chairs as the Mafia Gang walks in their direction.

Camilla's face lightens immediately as soon as she sees the group of gang members coming in their direction, with her heart bubbling from the inside.

Camilla sighs with relief. "Fernando! You are alive."

Fernando looks at Camilla with a brighter smile. "Sorry I am late. I'm here to take you with me today."

Fernando's words melt Camilla's heart, sending chills and butterflies throughout her body with the sense of hope returning inside her heart.

While Camilla is gazing at Fernando with a brighter smile on her face. Suddenly, a drop of her dopamine disappears shortly inside Camilla's brain as Mateo stumbles across the wedding altar stage with a contorted look on his face. A familiar face whenever someone is in trouble.

"You bastard! What the hell are you doing here? You are supposed to be dead by now." Mateo blurts out. Making everyone around the wedding altar startle with terrified looks on their faces as they look at Mateo with disbelief.

"Oh, my God. This man is terrible."

"I know right!"

The guests around the wedding altar speak with bewildered looks on their faces, looking at Mateo as he is walking towards Fernando's space.

Fernando scoffs and replies, "I'm here to take my wife. Did you miss me, father-in-law?"

Fernando's sarcastic question stirs anguish inside Mateo's and Albert's hearts as they both stare at Fernando with shaking clenched fists as the talk is about to blow up into a fight.

"His wife? What is going on here?"

"Was she married before she got engaged to Albert?"

The guests around the wedding altar speak with sceptical looks on their faces. Gossiping, since they don't know what happens behind the scenes.

Shortly, Mateo's bodyguards arrive at the wedding altar with their guns placed on their tactical belts. Rushing towards the scene as an intensive exchange between Mateo and Fernando proceeds at the wedding altar.

Mateo snarls at Fernando. "Don't talk to me that way, young man. You know well what is going to happen when you do that."

"You know what I want, father-in-law, or let me say Mr. Mateo, I'm here to take my wife and there is nothing you will do today that is going to stop me from getting her."

Fernando walks with puffiness, approaching Mateo's space, and then whispers through his ear. "Those days that you used to torture us are over now. I'm here to take what is rightfully mine."

Fernando's disrespectful behaviour triggers anguish inside Albert's heart as he looks at Fernando with a grimace look on his face. Suddenly Albert leaves the wedding altar, heading to Fernando's space to confront him, and when he approaches him, he then grabs him by the neck. Raising the tension of Fernando's bodyguards as they prepare their guns.

"How dare you, you call my wife, your wife? I don't want to hear you again calling my wife that way, Understood?!" Albert snarls at Fernando with the face reddish, agitated inside his heart as he stares at Fernando directly on the face.

Fernando takes a glance at Albert with a contempt look and scoffs. "Do you know how expensive this coat is? Get off your hands before you piss me off!"

Albert clenches his teeth and shakes his head with disagreement. "No! I'm not gonna leave you until you leave this place right now."

With the stubbornness of Albert not to leave Fernando's coat, suddenly Fernando loses his patience and then grabs Albert by the neck.

Click-click-click.

Fernando's men and Mateo's men remove their guns from their tactical belts. Pointing towards each other. Increasing the tension around the wedding altar as the guests whimper with terrified looks on their faces while shaking from head to toe as Fernando's men and Albert men are about to fight each other.