Chapter 250: The Wedding
Three weeks later...
Holed up inside her own private bedroom, Raine let out a sigh as she looked at herself in the mirror. Currently, she was dressed to impress; wearing a long white gown and a translucent veil covering her face as a bouquet of flowers lay waiting on her nightstand. It was the night of her supposed marriage to Janus, and she didn’t like it one bit.
"I really hope I’m doing this right..."
It was a gamble. One that would hopefully pay off, of course. But if it didn’t, then Raine supposed that it was only fate that dealt her a losing hand. She really didn’t know if anyone would save her by the altar, and at this rate, the window of opportunity for anyone to do so was closing really fast.
"Dammit... I really don’t wanna do this..."
Letting out another sigh, Raine could only imagine herself in a different marriage. Perhaps she would still be wearing the same wedding gown as she did now, except with Nathan being the one waiting for her at the altar instead of Janus. And while she really didn’t want to knock on the doctor’s potential to be a husband, she really didn’t want him to be hers. Don’t get her wrong, Janus was a good man, but he just couldn’t hold a candle to what Nathan could offer her.
Well, that, and they had already marked each other, and that wasn’t something they could both take back so easily.
"Nathan..."
Raine whispered out into the darkness of her room as her hand trailed towards the mark on her shoulder. Even now, she could still feel Nathan’s emotions filtering through it. His confusion, his anger... All of them made her own chest seize with her own brand of conflicting emotions.