DELILAH’S POV
“You are the most beautiful bride, Lilah! Today is going to be awesome!" Mirabel, my best friend said and I couldn’t help but giggled.
I sat in front of the vanity mirror with my slender figure gracefully dressed in a white wedding gown.
My elegant makeup brought out the exquisiteness of my pale complexion.
I looked as delicate as a budding red rose.
Yet, there was an uneasiness in my almond-shaped eyes.
There was only another twenty minutes until the wedding ceremony, yet I felt so much uneasiness.
I was frantically sliding my fingers across my phone screen, anxiously awaiting a call from my soon to be husband.
He promise to video call me before heading to the venue. It’s only twenty minutes to the wedding and still, he haven’t call.
I was more than worried.
Did he forget?
Mirabel immediately squeezed my hands. I guessed she noticed how nervous I’ve become.
“Okay, okay Lilah, you need to breath… Can you do that for me??” Mirabel asked.
“I can breathe,” I said to her, “I just need Richie calls right now and I will calm down.”
She looked at me wide-eyed. “Uh, Lilah… what if he forgets and have headed to the venue?”
“Then I will have to check and confirm it.” I muttered.
“What” her jaw dropped.
“You can’t do that. It’s twenty minutes to the wedding already. I’m sure you’re gonna meet him there!” She said but I shook my head.
I just got this crazy feeling that I should go and check.
“Just call him instead!” She suggested and I rolled my eyes.
“Do you think I haven’t done that!” I threw my hands into the air.
“But still, Richie apartment is a thirty minutes drive from here. When are you gonna get there!” She said.
I paused. She was right but I’m not gonna buy that as well.
I could wait no longer.
I rose from my seat, clenched my hand around my phone and ran out of the room.
“What do you think you’re doing?. We’re gonna be late for your wedding!” She said, running after me.
I hurried down through the back corridor and froze in my tracks as i walked past one of the rooms.
“Faster! Harder!!”
I could hear someone’s moans.
I frowned.
“I want you, honey. Go deeper.”
“Oh babe, you’re so wet.”
Their sound of intimating movements popped into my ears.
The voices were familiar. I stopped and stared at the slightly ajar room door.
My mouth went agape.
"I bet my dumb sister will be waiting for you to go to her. She’s too gullible to see that you’ve been using her. Did she really expects you to marry a naive girl like her?”
Elena muttered.
Elena was my younger sister.
“I really can’t imagined the embarrassment she’ll face when she noticed her groom is no where to be found!”
A loud laughter from her cause my heart to sink.
"Do she really think I will go this far and marry her?. She must be a joke" Richie, my fiancé said as he held Elena in his arms and nuzzled his thin lips against her neck.
"I can’t wait to see her humiliated and disgraced. Did Delilah think she can surpass me?. Nah"
She snickered wickedly.
"She will lose her mind if she finds out that you left her for me and she will go crazy when she finds out that your relationship with her was all planned and you never loved her for the start”
I felt a violent buzzing in my head. I took a step back and almost lost my balance but Mira caught me
I never knew she was behind me all this why.
I clenched my fists around my gown and held back the tears in my eyes.
I have known Richie for two years now. I have met him just when I finished college. He approached me and propose relationship to me. I accepted him at once. I’ve never had a boyfriend despite all the blind dates I’ve went to.
I thought something was wrong with me cuz no guy has approached.
I was dying to have one. I wanted to feel how to be loved.
Ever since my father married another woman, he have always favored my stepmom and her daughter forgetting I still exist.
My mother left i and my dad just when I was five. She left her marriage of 10 years for reasons best known to her.
I could still remember the argument that day when she left the house. Ever since that day, I’ve never set eyes on my mother again.
Dad brought another woman and a little girl. He told me she was gonna be my new mother and the little girl was my sister
As little I was, I just nodded but ever since then, dad loves towards me changed.
He gives more attention and love to his other woman and girl but treats me differently.
Desperate for love, I decided to give Richie a chance when he approached me and I eventually grow to loved him more.
I was even the one that introduced him to Elena.
I never knew they have know each other’s. They both fooled me.
What i least expected, was the fact that my fiance who said he loved me would turn around and betray me with my sister!
They both used me.
But for what reasons?
What did I ever do to them?
As the voices in the room intensified, i clenched my fists, and my eyes turned ice cold.
For years, i endured my stepmother and stepsister's bullying for my father's sake. I suffered through all kinds of injustices for the sake of the ones I called family.
I was too stupid and naive.
I trusted him, but in a matter of seconds, that illusion had been utterly shattered into a million pieces.
He cheated on me.
Betrayal sears through me.
I was horrified, tears were already rushing down my face as I couldn't help but scream their name.
“Elena!!!”
“Richie!!”
Shock evident on Elena’s face as she jumped from Richie body and immediately covered herself with the duvet.
“Delilah?” Richie called shocked.
“What…what are you doing here?” His murmured.
I scoffed.
Of course he ought to be surprised.
“How could you two do this to me. I love you Richie and Elena, you’re my sister. How could you do this to me without feeling guilty?” I inquired.
“Oh spare me Lilah. Stop acting so innocent. You love thinking high of yourself right?. You think you’re better than me in so many ways?. Your biggest offense was you trying to surpass me. You’re so foolish Lilah!”
She said, not even a hint of guilt evident on her face.
“It’s not my fault that I’m the woman Richie truly loves, Lilah.”
“It’s also not my fault that he doesn’t love you. So,you don’t expect me to feel guilty and apologize. I did nothing wrong Lilah”
She said and I shook my head.
How could she say that.
Is my wedding day today.
What’s gonna happen to all the guest I’ve invited?
What’s gonna become of me?
That the groom and bride didn’t show up on their wedding day?
I could feel the excruciating pains in my chest.
“And less I forget Delilah, Richie propose to me early this morning. Isn’t it lovely?” Elena flashed her fingers, showing me her diamond engagement ring.
I gasped.
Hers was more beautiful than mine.
A cold wind blew by, and i felt that the wind was not as cold as my heart.
"No! Elena, how could you… he's my fiancé. My
husband to be!" My eyes were red as i stared at my sister.
"Delilah, let’s make it clear. Right now, Richie is my fiancé." With that being said, she purposely displayed the huge diamond ring on her hand.
The tears streamed out of my eyes and I didn’t make any effort to stop them.
With a smile on her face, she leaned beside Richie and placed a kiss on his lips.
I stared at them in disgust.
Anger sneered through me.
I wanted to run away but my feet failed me. They were glued to the floor. I watched everything. Every single act they did in my front.
She broke the hot kissed they just had and stared at me.
"Delilah, are you satisfied with the wedding gift I gave you?"
She asked.
I shook my head as more tears rushed down my cheek.
“Will you still stand there or will you love us to have a threesome. It should be our parting gift to each other” Richie said and snorted in disgust!
“I hate you! I hate you both!” I said. My heart was shattered.
I couldn’t take it anymore. Why did they have to do their affair here?
Couldn’t they have gone to his apartment?
“The feeling is mutual and thanks for giving me your virginity and letting me fuck you for a year. It was incredible!”
He said. Tears has blurred my vision. I balled my fist and rushed out of there, barely catching a glimpse of where I was going and too heartbroken to care as I bolted to no where.
