Chapter 2 Episode 2

(One Year Later)

That day was perfect for a big wedding.

The bright sun, the pleasant breeze, and the background of that beautiful landscape was a stone path that led to the entrance of the church where a little more than three hundred guests that her mother had brought were gathered, among them people she herself did not know at all because most of them were strangers to her. Mariana was lost for a moment in the pleasant view of the surroundings of the church was surrounded by trees of a bright green of the new foliage, the birds that were around the place seemed to sing with joy that day.

It was the perfect day and the day for a wonderful wedding on the outskirts of London in the town where she had grown up.

But in the mind of the man who was waiting from the car not far from the church he didn't think the same, for him there was nothing perfect about that wedding to which he was heading with a firm step and intended to prevent, not to mention that his mood was very different from that of all the people who are crowded at the door of the church who are eager to enter and see the happy couple get married marriage.

All those people there were friends, family and acquaintances of the bride and groom he thought, they were all happy to see the beautiful couple get out of a limousine, he had seen them get out of it with their impeccable suits for a daytime wedding, it hurt him more to see her dressed in that big dress of bright colors, and enter the small courtyard of the church, The guests who were in the courtyard cheered elated to see the bride arrive dressed in a beautiful white silk dress and shortly after see the groom.

I watch them from afar talking and sharing smiles with the groom's parents and her mother, I watch her laugh and put her hand on Eliot Fontana's shoulder over and over again, take her by the waist and pull her to his body, shortly after the priest's voice was heard inviting everyone to enter the church to begin the ceremony.

The fists of her hands clenched in anger when Eliot, Mariana's boyfriend and future husband, took her face in his hands and planted a kiss on her lips, not being able to control his anger and anger he took a step towards where they were, but her mother got in the way of his plans attracting the attention of the bride and groom to enter the church.

She controlled her anger and waited until the last guest took her seat, she looked for a place among the last places and sat down without being able to laugh, all this theater would be over in a few seconds, and he wanted to hurt her so much for all the time that he left her to her fate.

The wedding went on, the father talked to the bride and groom and said their vows, Mariana talked about very emotional things that have Eliot's mother in front of them and he for his part too.

"Is there anyone in this room who has a reason why this marriage cannot take place, speak now or shut up forever."

The church was completely silent, the guests looked at each other looking for any reason not to celebrate the wedding, the anger in him made him stand up and some of the guests noticed it some began to speak in low voices and other voices could be heard clearly.

The bride and groom who were at the end of the hall and the parents of this were filled with curiosity when they saw that the guests were somewhat noisy so they turned around in search of an answer, Mariana felt that she was going to faint as soon as she looked at the man standing halfway, her heart is racing even at an unusual pace and she tries to look for stability in Eliot who looks between the man standing in the middle and his future wife, whom he was going to marry at the time.

"Mariana"

The voice that pronounces her name is full of rage and will go to see her there, in the middle of a corridor about to marry that man who was not him.

"Oh my god" She put her trembling hands to her mouth, still couldn't believe it was him who was standing in front of her.

He, the man she met that time in Venezuela when she had escaped from her mother and the relationship with Eliot, the man with whom he had spent a wonderful night of sex and who would not leave her head since she herself had left him one morning after marrying him.

For Eliot it was the first time he had looked at this man in his life, he had become known to him from somewhere else, but his image did not fit very well, he knew something was wrong when his eyes found the image of a pale Mariana who was being helped by her mother.

"Who are you?"

"I'm Julian Merrill."

"Are you friends with my daughter?" Her mother asked.

"No, don't" The scream was heard throughout the church, it was Mariana's desperate voice as she cried.

"I'm Mariana's husband."

Everyone in the church exclaimed in a chorus of surprise, began to make comments of pity towards the groom and rude towards the bride.

"You're lying, I have nothing to do with you."

"Do you know him, Mariana, who is man?" Eliot's voice searched for answers.

"I don't know who he is, I swear I don't know him." I beg only in whispers.

"Stop lying, devil's woman, you're married to me, and you can't lie anymore."

"Lie, you're lying, you said it wasn't legal" Her desperation to get out of that situation gave her away "you said it was false."

"Are you married to this man, Mariana?"

It was the voices of her mother and groom who asked at the same time.

"No, of course not, Mom." He quickly shook his head, but it was too late, no one believed him.

"We are married, and our marriage is totally legal" Julián took a sheet of paper out of his jacket pocket where he had the marriage certificate signed by the two of them.

_"Mariana." His mother shouted as she read the document, while her face burned with fury, "My God, what have you done, are you married to this man."

"No, mom isn't like that" I try to beg the girl who fell to her knees on the floor to beg her mother to trust her " Julian stops lying "Why are you doing this to me?"

Her eyes were red from crying so much, she felt sorry for herself for being the shame of the town where she was born, so many friends of her mother and Eliot's parents and all to look like a bigamist who had two marriages at the same time.

She had always thought that it was an unlegalized marriage, she had done it under the effects of charm and love, but now they had to face the truth of the facts and that was that she was married to Julian, the man she still loved and whom she thought she would never see again.

Seeing him dressed like that in that suit, he was not the same man that she met that time in Venezuela, a tourist who had been flirtatious with her, had flattered her and said that she was very beautiful, the truth is that at first she did not want to be carried away by the flattery of a man but she was alone in the middle of that beautiful island as Margarita was, she had not been able to say no to her company, every night it was more and more flirtatious with her to the point of giving her a lot of love and affection that she had needed so much, that's why Mariana had let herself be carried away by the illusion and love of the moment.

A call from her mother had made her return to the world again, her father had died and Eliot's parents who were always friends of Eliot were there to help, but soon after things got complicated it was no longer just her parents it was the same boy who was always there for her and Mariana lost hope of seeing her beloved Julian again.

She had come to think that everything she had experienced was a product of her imagination, but now everything was very real because in front of her she had Julián with a document that claimed to be legal and they were married, her mother began to shout so many profanities that she thought they would break her eardrums, Eliot's parents began to take everyone out of the church and the father with the altar boy had disappeared from the place.

Eliot still had hope that everything was a simple game, and nothing was true, but the way this man looked at the girl who was supposed to be his girlfriend in a few days filled him with pain.

"Listen to what I'm going to say Mariana, I don't want to see you or your mother again in my life, from today you are a stranger to me."