"what are you referring to exactly?" Senior Ilyas Marouikous asked angrily, the man who hardly raise his voice, lost his temper in the middle of the meeting
" Ilyas, old friend, we have been losing millions of euro because of your disagreement, we thought…" the man with the black 20's hat said, then he looked at the old man on the wheelchair and stopped talking for a reason he seemed tensed and concerned
" I respect you so much but asking me to marry off my daughter to his reckless goof, I rather die" a tall British man stood from his chair with full disagreement signs, Carlisle Blackwater the head master of every Mafia in London England, very British, very strict and firm
" like if I'm dying to marry that little princess of yours" Zach with a careless attitude answered and ignored the ugly man whose face has turned red from the blood pressure that went up from the shock
"Zachariah, behave yourself" Senior Ilyas said holding his son's hand, "It is the elders decision after all if they say so, we shall obey" he added still calm, reading everyone's expression on the table
"your fight is our doom, peace is what we ask, and peace comes trough alliance, your two childs shall marry" the elder man on the wheelchair who seemed to be feared and respected by everyone of that table said, with a calm tone and looked into their eyes deeply
"What if my niece marries his son, instead ?" Senior Ilyas asked with a bit of tension
"You want Manea to marry Gabriel ?" Lord Blackwater asked with somehow relief that his precious daughter shall stay, as for Gabriel he was a rascal but he protects himself well
"Papa are you giving them Rumi? I rather marry then letting her do so" Zack reacted with shock and dumped his careless act to be more focused
" Not Gabriel, the other one Jasper " he answered still holding his son's hand under the table
"Papa are you hearing yourself, I won't approve of this never" Zack added trying to change his father's words
" Jasper is a perfect match with Manea, fair enough" the elder replied to his offer with a slight fainting smile on his pale tired face
" bloody hell, are you trying to test my stamina, all of you in this assembly knew, what happened 15 years ago, Jasper would never agree to this, he is no longer a member" the British angry man said with an angry tone yet felt like pleading and begging for other solutions
" who sees that the Marouikous and Blackwater's should go through alliance in marriage of Jasper Blackwater and Rumina Marouikous, say I "the elder asked inviting the members to vote with a very firm look
Everyone on the table raise their hands but Zachariah and Lord Carlisle who knew, that that kid of his was no longer subordinate, and that would be pouring water on sand trying to convince him otherwise
"But elder, you know…" before finishing what he wanted to say the elder raise his hand as a sign of silence and said :
" Dear lord Blackwater the assembly has made its call, Jasper know what family really means, he shall agree, "
Two months has passed
"Rumi I'm so sorry I tried doing everything in my power to change Papa's mind, but the assembly decided" Zach said holding her hand tight pleading for her forgiveness
"I know," she said then stood up and hugged him tight whispering in his ears" Family always and forever remember"
"Always and forever" he replied with a sad face and a bruised heart
"Hurry up bride to be, we have a wedding to catch" Isabella said while separating her from Zach's embrace , it ached her more that she was the one to send one of her kids to the enemy, and even worst that Zach and Rumi will be separated …
They entered the limo and Isabella's eyes started to water bitter tears, " when I first married your uncle, I felt awkward and weak, I felt like if my pink rosy world collapsed, like if they were sending me to some kind of prison, but time thought me how to love, how to live and what life and family really meant, I mended his broken heart and he learned to accept who I really was" she stopped to clean her face from all the running mascara " Rumi, may love be in your favor, may God bless you with the family you lost" she held her hands and said those words with a painful smile hoping that this is not the last goodbye
On the door of the Cathedral
" did you know that cathedral is where your parents met and married each other? " Isabella asked holding her dress from behind and whispered "you look just like her, breathtaking "…
Little Dahlia led the way, gently spraying those pink and peachy sakura petals , behind there was Norah, Ida and Angelika as the bride's maids and Gabriel, Zachariah, Andrea walking through the isle
Only for Rumina and her Uncle to enter hand in hand, a magical moment struck Jasper who was looking at his bride's face under the veil. for the first time he wished more, though it was covered , but she still looked the fair of them all …
Standing in front of the priest, facing each other's face, trying their best to wake up from this long and torturing dream or nightmare or whatever it was ....
"Jasper Elliot Blackwater would you take Rumina Marouikous for your lawful wife, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and health, until death do you part"
Jasper like a stoned teenager couldn't do but stair at she whom he was going to marry, she was beautiful he thought, he liked her wise black coffee eyes, she looked very tin though …
"I do" the moment he reached the land of reality he said
"Rumina Artemis Marouikous would you take Jasper Blackwater for your lawful husband to have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and health, until death do you part"
"I do" she blankly answered with her small voice
"by the authority giving to me by the church, I shall pronounce you husband and wife, you may kiss the bride"
He took of her veil only to see her more beautiful and mesmerizing; she was never what they said about her, she was never the moster they feared nor the witch they told him about
He pushed his hand until it landed on her small waist, and pulled her softly near, like if she was a porcelain doll that he feared to break, and kissed her soft lips …
"till death do us apart " he whispered …