GOLDEN HEART 18

‘Well…’ She cut her own when she knew what he meant.

She nodded her head, indicating that she understood what he meant.

He doesn’t want that matter to be brought up again, and she wasn’t about to stir troubles for something that can be easily forgotten.

‘By the way, I didn’t realize I’ve broken an important rule of mine until now.’ She tried to change the subject.

‘Yeah?’ Inquired Adam, going back to whatever work he was doing on his PC.

‘I stayed with you before marriage.’ She whispered dramatically like she just revealed something she shouldn’t.

Adam chuckled at her antics. ‘Baby, those kinds of rules shouldn’t be made in the first place, especially not when two people are engaged to be married.’

She leaned her head on the couch, looking at the ceiling. ‘Those were my mom’s rules.’ She smiled sadly.

Adam looked at her for a while when she uttered those words. It was the first time she had ever mentioned her family before him, so her statement caught him off guard.

‘The funny thing is, a lot of the rules I live by weren’t created for me but for my brother.’ She chuckled and continued her story without realizing Adam’s reaction.

‘Why would she create those rules for your brother?’ Adam asked after snapping back to reality.

‘He was the epitome of foolishness and womanizing.’ She laughed, going down the memory lane.

‘He would always find a new way to land in jail, or seduce women. Married or not he cared not, and seeing I was his younger sister, I was bound to follow his footsteps. Mom was always running after before Dad knew.’ Justine was smiling brightly without even knowing, but there was a hint of sadness in that smile.

‘You were in jail?’ Adam asked shocked.

Justine looked at him briefly, and laughed slightly. ‘I was a regular juvenile delinquent when I was in high school along with my brother. He was my role model, so everything he did, I copied. I didn’t care for the consequences I knew we would be facing when Dad Knew, neither did he.’ She clarified.

There was a moment of silence before Adam decided to break it.

‘You know we can invite them to attend if you miss them this much.’ Offered Adam.

‘Wouldn’t that be great.’ She wished wistfully, a single tear sliding down her cheek.

‘I don’t have any problem with them attending as long as it please yo…’

‘We can’t.’ She cut him off, wiping the tear off before standing up, and going upstairs leaving a confused Adam Behind.

Adam stood at the altar waiting for his bride, looking as dashing as ever.

However and despite the many stares he was getting from the females attending their wedding, his mind was with his bride.

His mind kept conjuring up possibilities of her not attending or getting cold feet. After their conversation the night before and how she suddenly asked him if he changed his mind about their wedding kept nagging him at the back of his mind.

However his thoughts were proven wrong when the doors to the hall opened, revealing a very breathtakingly beautiful Justine escorted by the man he saw with her at their house few days back.

Justine looked up and smiled brightly at him when their eyes met. Adam returned the gesture, totally forgetting whatever nervousness he was feeling moments ago.

Jürgen handed her to Adam, and retreated to his designated place.

The couples were about to recite their wedding vows when the glass vase on Justine’s right suddenly shattered.

Justine turned around abruptly to see Müller and Jürgen running to her in full speed along with her other bodyguards.

That’s when chaos erupted everywhere. Adam beat them to it, and drew her from under the chandelier that was about to crack her head open.

Jürgen and her bodyguards soon joined them behind the wooden table, they took shelter in from the rain of bullets they were at the receiving end of.

‘Müller, go help the guests to safety.’ She ordered when she saw some of them struggling to go out. ‘Take them with you.’ She added, referring to the rest of the bodyguards.

‘What about you?’ He inquired.

‘I have Jürgen with me.’

‘I can’t do that. He won’t be ha…’ Müller tried to reason, but was interrupted Midway.

‘I’ll talk to him about it.’ She stated firmly, daring him to go against the order he just received.

They were too busy handling the mess surrounding them when Adam suddenly hit the ground at her feet.

She looked down at him shocked for a while as to what happened to him so suddenly before she saw a small pool of blood forming around his wallet.

She went to her knees, shaking his limp body, trying to wake him up. ‘Don’t you fucking dare!’ She shouted when she checked his withering pulse.

He was in this state because he was shielding her from the bullet that was aimed at her.

‘Müller!’ The man was in front of her in a blink.’ I want him in the basement in the next four hours.’ She ordered icily.

‘Yes, Ma’am. Anything else, Ma’am?’ He knew there was something else, it was just a rhetorical question.

‘Call Zeus to bring some more men here to clean this mess, and bring me the tools.’

She ordered ripping the lower part of her wedding dress off, and wrapping it around Adam’s wound.

‘Müller.’ She called out knowing that he would still be standing waiting for the rest of her orders.

‘Yes, Ma’am?’

‘This is a restricted area for the next few hours.’ She stated, referring to the hall, especially the part where she would be operating on Adam.

He bowed slightly before retreating back to execute the orders.

‘Ma’am?’ Müller said from behind the plastic curtain where she was operating on Adam.

‘Didn’t I said not to be interrupted, Müller?’ She asked rhetorically.

‘It’s important.’ He stated.

‘Well?” She urged.

‘We found out who were they.’

Justine’s hand froze for a second before continuing extracting the bullet out. She didn’t speak, waiting for him to inform her of the rest.

‘Zeus is involved….’