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So fucking ready!
For Cress to have my last name.
For me to have her fully and completely.
“This is what you needed.”
“That’s not what I asked.”
“I’m ready for Cress to be mine in the most permanent way possible. Yes, I’m ready for this.”
He stared at me for a long moment before nodding. “I’ll see you downstairs.”
Once he was gone, I crossed my room and stepped in front of the full length mirror, barely recognizing the man staring back at me. In one month, so much had changed. So much more was going to change in the next few hours and days that followed.
“You lookrespectable.”
The sound of my mother’s voice grated my nerves. “Why are you here?”
“Mysonis getting married. Why wouldn’t I be?”
I laughed bitterly. “Because you don’t give a shit about me.”
“As much as you like to pretend you know how I feel, you don’t. You’re my son. I love you and I want what’s best for you.” She paused, clasping her hands in front of her. I finally turned to regard her. Josiah Omari. My father’s wife. She had stopped being considered my mother years ago. Yet, here she stood before me dressed in white. A slim-fitting dress that hugged her body and swept the floor. It was covered in crystal beading with short lace sleeves that stopped just below her elbow.
How fucking quaint.
No doubt selected to upstage my future wife.
“You don’t think that’s too damn much for the mother of the groom.”
Her glossed pink lips curled at the corners. “You don’t like my dress?”
“If you’re trying to overshadow my wife, then you wasted your time.”
“Futurewife. She hasn’t said I do just yet and why would I want to overshadow Cress? She’s a lovely young lady.”
“Because that’s who you are.”
“You really think that little of me?”
“Iknowyou don’t give a shit about me or Cress. You’re here to fulfill some twisted obligation you have to me, maybe even my father. Who the fuck knows? I don’t care what your reasons are…” I paused and crossed the room, stopping where she stood at the entrance of my room. “If you fuck with Cress or try to ruin this day for her, you will regret it.”
Her eyes flared with amusement. “You care about her? I thought this was something forged between you and Elias to fix what her family ruined for ours.”
I chuckled, shaking my head. “You’re unbelievable. Do us both a favor and leave now.”
I pushed past her and when my back was completely to my mother she spoke again. “Does she know who you really are? If not, maybe I should have a word with my future daughter-in-law to make sure there are no surprises after she vows her unyielding commitment to her family by marrying you. I’d hate for there to be disappointment from the poor girl expecting a happily ever after versus the nightmare she’s going to receive being tied to you. That’s all you can offer her, Elias. Does she know bearing your children means chancing that they’ll end up just likeyou?”
My fist clenched at my sides. I felt a flux of irritation spiking through my veins but I managed to keep myself restrained when I turned to face my mother.
“Do you really hate me that much? Because if you do, I’m not sure why. I am whatyoumade me. Your lineage,mother.”
Your grandfather passed this down to me.
Her eyes searched my face and for the briefest moment I half-expected this woman to show some compassion but that was short lived.
“I don’t hate you. I hate the disappointment you caused our family. I hate that your brother will never get to have this moment. He will never watch the woman he loves walk down the aisle toward him and pledge her love.Youstole that from him, from us. I don’t hate you. I hate what will never bebecauseof you.”
