THE ULTIMATE REVENGE OF DON ROCH

UNINVITED WEDDING GUEST

"Gone? That's not possible. We would have seen him if he tried to leave the house. Maybe he's in another room. It's his first time here, he probably just wants to explore a little bit." Anika replied to her husband with a look of disbelief.

"The room is empty, I checked it. I checked the other rooms too before coming here. He didn't leave through the door, he left through the window in his room. I should have known he would go no matter what we said to him. Nik is a stubborn bastard." Tedros said as he picked up his phone.

"Are you trying to call him? He doesn't have a phone." Anika said and Tedros ran his hands through his hair.

"Damn it, I forgot about that." He said.

"What do we do, Teddy?" Anika asked in a panicky voice.

"I don't know. I guess we'll just have to wait and see what happens. He may not even be able to get there before the wedding is over. He'll probably get lost, he doesn't even know the venue."

"Nik is smart, Teddy. He had seen what the venue looked like in the videos. He'll find it."

"There's nothing more we can do. We tried to help him in the best way we could. We have a daughter to think about, what happens to her if we get arrested while trying to help Nik on this suicide mission?"

"Oh Teddy." Anika said as she sat down.

"I wish we could help him more. He just found out that he has lost almost everything that was important to him, and that three years of his life was wasted for nothing. That's a lot to take in. I just hope whatever he does today doesn't end badly."

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NIKAELEON

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I knew I was betraying Tedros and Anika’s trust with what I wanted to do, but I just couldn’t stay here and pretend like everything was fine. As I finished talking to Tedros, I closed the door and listened to his retreating footsteps through it. When I was sure he was gone, I walked to the window in the guest room and opened it. Then I remembered that I had no money and from the video I watched, the reception venue was a bit of a distance from their house.

I walked back to the main door, and got out. I went into Tedros and Anika’s room and rummaged around till I found some money. I put the money in my pocket and moved back to the guest room with an internal promise to pay back every dime. I went out through the window and doubled back to the main gate of their home.

I tried to remember the direction to the bus station, hoping that the town hadn’t changed too much from what it was before I went to jail. Thankfully, the bus station was still where I remembered it being and I located it after walking for a while. I joined the bus and dropped off as close as possible to the place I suspected was the venue of the wedding.

It turned out that I was wrong, the venue I had been thinking of was empty. I sat down on the pavement and held my head in my hand. I was so damn angry, and it was driving me crazy. There was this ache in my chest like my heart had been carved out and to passersby, I probably looked like a homeless person. I was technically homeless though. Tedros and Anika had been generous enough to let me stay with them, but their home wasn’t mine.

I was about to leave when two girls rushed by me and I immediately raised my head up when I heard Connor’s name.

~

“Walk faster, Mika. We’re so late for the wedding.” The first girl said as she dragged her friend along with her.

“I don’t know why you’re forcing me to go with you, Ellie. I wasn’t the one who spent almost two hours doing makeup, you changed gowns like seven times before wearing this one. And I don’t want to watch Connor get married to another woman. You know how much I love him.” The second girl bemoaned as she walked fast to keep up with her friend.

“Don’t be so melodramatic, Mika. Connor Grant doesn’t even know you exist. And I doubt he would even want anything to do with you if he found out you’re a total stalker.”

“I am not a stalker!”

“You have a tissue he used, which you picked from the trash when he came to eat at the restaurant you work at. If that doesn’t say I’m a crazy stalker, I honestly don’t know what does.”

~

I followed the two girls till they got into a cab. Then I hailed a cab and asked it to follow theirs. The driver was sceptical at first but he agreed to my demand when I said I would pay him double of the normal fare. At the venue of the wedding, there were a lot of people outside. The main hall was reserved for only close family members of the bride and groom, business associates and other important people. The security was tight and I knew that I wouldn’t be able to get in without being apprehended.

I looked around and spotted a server wearing a black and white uniform. I discreetly followed him as he moved to the side of the main hall after serving his tray of drinks. I figured that since the entrance to the main hall was closed, there had to be a way for the servers to bring food and drinks from the inside to the outside. I picked up empty glasses and pretended like I was also employed to work at the wedding. The employee side entrance had just one guard and he didn’t pay me much attention as I followed behind the server with the empty wine glasses.

I stepped inside and moved through the kitchen area that was crowded with servers and chefs moving around. The door to the main hall was by the right and the first thing I saw when I stepped through it was Connor and Uri were dancing while holding each other. My anger multiplied tenfold, How dare he touch her? Uri was mine.

“GET YOUR HANDS OFF HER YOU BASTARD!”