The next day, Alicia was woken up by a knock on the door, she scrambled away from the bed and quickly went to open it when she saw Ian standing there with a dress on his hand. "Good morning sir Ian, what brings you here this morning?" Alicia inquired as she rubbed her eyes while yawning, she was extremely tired and all she wanted that moment was to be left alone to go sleep again.
"Good morning miss, hope you are doing well?" He asked to see her nod her head in response, he brought the dress forward and when Alicia's eyes fell on it with a questioning gaze, he quickly replied, "Oh!, master told me to give it to you" He said passing the ivory looking dress to her.
Alicia accepted it while looking at it, "Why is he giving me this?" she asked.
"He said you should wear it today and miss if you have any questions, kindly approach him to get your answers" he replied to her as he bowed his head and left. Alicia pursed her lips as she saw the man going away, her gaze then fell back on the dress with furrowed eyebrows, she closed the door and padded her feet towards the bed to spread the cloth on it. The color of the dress was ivory and it was a low v neckline off shoulder dress. The dress was very beautiful to make Alicia think if she was his bride or if someone else was, what even pushed him to give her this cloth on his wedding day?.
Sighing, she walked to the bathroom to get herself prepared. After some hours, Alicia was done, she stared at her reflection in the mirror while wondering if she was the bride because she looked nothing less to it, she was very beautiful and had nice curves. she walked closer to the mirror to see the swell of her breast very visible. Her gaze trailed towards her neck and she subconsciously touched it, she felt no pain at all and there wasn't even a mark bite there making her reckon if it was all a dream last night but it felt so real that he had bitten her.
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The wedding had started with people trooping into the mansion with expensive dresses and beautiful haircut. The women were of high-class as they dressed elegantly while holding unto their man. Alicia's eyes wandered around the room looking from one person to another. She stood in the corner where no one would have their eyes on her or where she was going to bring attention to herself.
As if where she stood wasn't good enough, she could feel someone's piercing gaze on her and when she looked, she saw it was Asher. He had his hair neatly combed to the back, his earring wasn't present on his ear. He dressed in a white shirt, white pant and white suit. That was the first time Alicia was seeing him in another color apart from black and he looked so much like an angel now that his overbearing aura was gone.
She raised her left eyebrow at him seeing he wasn't going to stop staring at her, and what did Asher do? he winked at her while licking his bottom lips making Alicia's eyes go wide. She looked around to see if someone was looking at them but fortunately for her, no one paid attention to her.
Alicia shook her head as she quickly walked away from there leaving a smirk on Asher's lips but the bus expression turned serious again as he realized he was getting married, not to the person he loves but would he ever love anyone? he preferred living and enjoying life alone.
Alicia went to another spot to stand where she wouldn't bring unnecessary attention to herself. Just as she was looking around again, her eyes caught sight of the unusual white hair and when she zoomed in on the person, she saw it was none other than Rvan. What is he doing here? she asked herself because Alicia never invited him and he didn't know her where she was staying so how come he was here now?
"Good day miss Alicia, didn't know you would be here" he spoke when he reached her, he gently took her hand to give a light kiss on her knuckles making butterflies swim in Alicia's stomach.
"Good day to you Rvan, how come you are here? do you know anyone here?" she asked curiously to see him shook his head, then why was he here? she asked herself again but her curious self was suppressed when he told her he had work to do here.
"Let's go, shall we?" he asked as he raised his hand while flashing his gorgeous smile at her, Alicia smiled nervously as she took his hand and walked with him towards the hall.
The wedding had started with the priest asking the soon to be couple to make their vows, Isabel looked very beautiful dressed in her white gown and her hair tied into a neat bun. She had that smile on her face as if everything she had been wishing for had come true but she didn't know that she had just entered the lion's den.
When the time came for the exchange of the rings, Isabel had happily slid the ring in Asher's middle finger. She looked up to him to see that his eyes wasn't on her and his hand paused, her eyes followed his line of sight to see that he was looking at the woman in ivory dress and she felt jealousy hit her nerves as she gritted her teeth.
"Asher..." she whispered his name trying to bring his attention to her but his eyes was stuck on that woman, not just her but the man beside her that was unaware of the daggers that was being thrown to him. Isabel noted that Asher was angry looking at them, he looked like he wanted to separate them.
The priest cleared his throat and Asher's attention was brought back to Isabel making her smile again, he forcefully inserted the ring in her finger without caring if he was going to hurt her or not.
"Now you may kiss the bride" The priest said and Asher leaned closer to Isabel. Isabel closed her eyes as she felt her heart beating like drum In her chest, this was the moment she was waiting for. All her life there was nothing she had wished than to be with Asher, now that he was going to kiss her, her heart skipped a beat. Expecting the kiss to land on her lips but it didn't, instead it was on her cheek and it didn't even last a minute before he pulled back.
Isabel was disappointed but she didn't let it show on her face as she used her smile to cover it up. Then finally, the bride and the groom were dancing on the grand floor with other women and their husbands who came to dance along with them to the music. "Would you like you dance milady?" Rvan asked Alicia as he stretched his hand forward for her to take then he took her to the dance floor.
As they were dancing, Alicia was smiling to something that ravn had said but her smile didn't last when she felt Asher's piercing gaze on her. Alicia just couldn't understand this man at all, wasn't he supposed to focus his gaze on his wife and not another woman what if people catches him staring at her.
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