Just as I stood there, frozen with the phone in my hand, Jack burst through the door.
“Maya, something’s come up today. We have to pause the wedding.”
I swallowed my nervousness and asked tentatively, “Is it something serious? You know we’ve been planning this wedding for a long time. Unless it’s something really important, I hope...”
“I’m sorry, but Lucy’s been in a car accident. You know she doesn’t have any family here.”
“Our wedding is about to start! You can’t just...”
Jack interrupted me, not letting me finish.
“I know, but Lucy’s seriously hurt. I need to take her to the hospital myself to be sure she’s okay. She was on her way to attend our wedding when it happened.”
“And what about our wedding?” I asked, my voice trembling.
Jack kept looking at his phone, his eyes filled with concern – for another woman.
“I know, once I’ve taken her to the hospital, we’ll pick a new date and have another wedding.”
At that moment, I realized how much of a stranger the man standing in front of me had become.
Maybe our fate was never meant to last, and we were destined to drift apart.
“Jack, do you remember what that priest said? If you go to her now, we’re over. The wedding is canceled.”
I spoke the harsh words, knowing I was cutting off my own escape.
This was my last gamble to make him stay.
He looked at me with surprise, his brow furrowed, as if recalling the priest’s words.
Or perhaps he was deciding between me and Lucy Carter.
But it didn’t take him long to make his decision. “Stop being unreasonable. You and her are different. Lucy has no one here.
“If you really believe that priest’s nonsense and not in us, then I have nothing to say. But I’m going to Lucy now to take her to the hospital.
“As for the wedding being canceled, do whatever you want.”
With that, he turned and left without a moment’s hesitation, ignoring my cries as I called after him.
“Jack!”
At that moment, the last shred of hope I had for us died.
Do whatever I want? I stood there for a long time, stunned.
In the end, he chose to leave me for another woman.
“Mrs. Harrison, the guests outside are starting to talk… and there are a lot of reporters too,” Jack’s friend, Tom, who was also a shareholder in the company, said as he entered the room.
Jack had run off, and now his friend wanted me to go out and explain the situation. After all, the groom had disappeared, and many of the company’s partners and reporters were present.