Achilles helped Adrian get up as his head was still feeling very dizzy. He walked him to the main hall where everyone was patiently waiting for him to return.
He glanced over the luxurious sofa where he was supposed to sit. Lucy was sitting there looking extremely serious and solemn. Athena was standing close to her, whispering something seriously. Others were still busy in the decorations.
Adrian gave her an indifferent expression when she looked at him. This angered her, and she mouthed to Athena," I wish I could murder him for once and for all".
"Does the mafia queen need to wish for a murder? If you really want it, then you are more than capable for it", said Athena, shrugging her shoulders.
Lucy had a fleeting vision of Adrian lying sprawled on a floor, with his hands and legs stretched out, his clothes badly torn, and a dagger 🗡️ pierced in his stomach , his body oozing out blood and his head lifelessly turned to one side. The vision was so frightening for her, that she actually began shaking with fear.
"What happened? Are you fine?", asked Athena, bending down in front of her.
"Yes", said Lucy, "I am alright, and I don't want to kill him. He's got such a nice family, they won't be happy if they find that their daughter in law has murdered their smile".
"From when did you start worrying about people's families before murdering them?", asked Athena, acting to be surprised.
"That...", she started, but Athena cut across him.
"You have changed a lot, my friend. This is not the fearless Lucy who I knew, who was not scared of anything and whose life had only three motives, or have you forgotten your motives because of Adrian too?", she asked, tauntingly.
"Athena! What are you saying?", she said, in complete disbelief.
"I am saying the truth, Lucy. You had said that you would not let yourself be diverged or confused because of your so-called husband ", said Athena.
"I am still saying that, I ve got no interest in his handsome profile. I promise that I won't fall weak in front of him", said Lucy.
"I am sorry Lucy, but this is for your best. Achilles is right, the two most busy and powerful people cannot afford to fall in love with each other, not when she is herself at such risk but of course, he does not know about it" said Athena to herself.
Adrian came and sat on the luxurious sofa, where all the guests came up , congratulated them and gave them gifts. He ignored Lucy completely, and even refused to smile when the photographer clicked their photos. Lucy acted likewise and inched herself from her suddenly -cold husband.
The photographer ( finally frustrated because of the couple ignoring him when he asked them to pose, and was swearing and cursing under his breath ) asked them that he wants a kissing photo of them, to add to the cover page of the album.
"We kissed at the wedding!", said Adrian," Just use that one".
"Nobody clicked the photo , because it happened rather too suddenly. Now if you two just...", started an angry photography but Lucy cut across him.
"I have an urgent call to make, please excuse me for a moment", said Lucy, throwing Adrian a you-should-be-grateful-to-me look.
She got up and picked her phone. She had just taken two steps when she heard something creak beside her. She turned back like a whip flashed across the air, and saw the chain of the chandelier ( which was just above the sofa ) give away.
Her mind was full of the vision of Adrian's corpse, as she lunged at him who was still oblivious of the danger. Without caring for her life, without even wasting a moment, she pushed Adrian from the sofa and fell right on top of him before the chandelier smashed the sofa with an ear deafening crash.