Chapter 3 Episode 3

Chapter Three

A tearful girl went after the man who was going to be her husband, one she didn't love at all but who in the end was the one indicated by her mother "He lied, I swear I thought it wasn't legal."

"You're a whore." The words had not finished leaving his mouth when he was thrown backwards by the impact of the blow he received from Julian.

"I don't allow you to disrespect my wife." She might be a bad woman for leaving him, but Julian wasn't going to let her be insulted by anyone.

"Wife, fuck, but if it was easy for you to get her, it took me years to get into her legs, I see why she can't" Eliot stood up and expressed disdainfully and then left the place.

Julián watched the boy leave the church with his parents furious after him, the woman he had married was crying in the middle of the hallway, her sobs broke her heart, but Mariana had had no mercy on when she had agreed to marry that guy.

She was a Merrill and nothing and no one was going to take away that last name that she acquired when she married him, he walked to where she was on the floor still crying and approached to help her stand up, but what he received was a slap on her left cheek.

"You're the meanest human being I've ever met, I regret marrying someone like you" Her voice was hoarse from crying.

"Sadly, my beauty, we shall be married until the day I die."

"I'm going to divorce you; I'll be free from that damn paper." He looked at the marriage certificate that was still in Julian's hands.

"No, you won't be free my beauty because you and I are married now all our lives."

"Nothing lasts a lifetime." It reminded him.

"Our love yes Mariana, you loved me, did you forget?"

"It was all because of the passion of the moment, it was sex Julian you have to end this shit and let me live my life in peace, I'm happy when I'm not with you." Every word that came out of his mouth weighed heavily.

"Do you love him? You want that man."

"You even thought about my feelings for him, how I can be in love with Eliot, you thought about me before you came here."

"I'll make you forget; I'm your husband and you must love me."

"Mom will never accept someone like you."

"What am I like? What's wrong with Mariana? He asked, even though he knew the answer, it was all about money.

"Everything, I hate you so much." Mariana preferred not to answer his question.

"We're going to have to live with it."

Julian didn't pay much attention to her rejection when he tried to help her to her feet, she refused to receive her help and walked to the door of the church to get out of there.

"You can't go out like that; you're dressed as a bride and there are journalists there."

"You brought them here to be part of the show." He said sarcastically.

"No, they were brought by your boyfriend's family, so we have to find a way to get out of here."

"You can go, I won't leave here with you."

"You're silly Mariana, I'm not going to leave you here alone."

She didn't feel like fighting with him anymore, it had been a shitty day, she was humiliated and embarrassed in front of all those people, her dress was ruined and her face stained with a fool to cry, Julian took revenge on her in the worst way and it still hurt her to know that it was never a dream or a deception that she had really married that man.

She was crazy because when she saw him enter the church her heart raced with joy when she saw him, happy because there were many dreams where Julian rescued her, but not like this, not in that way.

She saw him move around the church while talking on the phone giving orders to someone. As far as she knew, Julián Merrill was a simple low-income photographer who had gone to Venezuela to capture with his camera the beautiful beaches of this country, but now that she looked at him more closely he didn't look like a photographer, this man was someone else, he wore dress pants, a tailor-made suit that she could recognize was very expensive and the shoes cost more than the salary that his mother gave him to the employee.

Julian could have changed so much in a year to get so much and become rich, or was he already?

"I've got a car outside the church; we have to go."

"You can go, make it clear that I'm not going anywhere with you."

"Please walk through the streets or I'll carry you and let all the press see how you get out of here in your husband's arms."

"You're not my husband!" Mariana's scream made her head hurt; she looked like a little girl throwing a tantrum at her parents.

"If you don't stop screaming, I'm going to kiss you right here Mariana, I'm tired of this and you accept once and for all that we're husband and wife, you're not going to leave without me."

Marian's body trembled when she heard his words, she couldn't believe how hypocritical this guy was, when in a year he had never bothered to look for her know he came and appeared as if nothing happened, for what? Maybe he just wanted to ruin his life.

As they left the church, they were surrounded by many photographers who asked questions non-stop, Mariana noticed that some of them seemed to know Julian, they said his last name a lot.

"Mr. Merrill, are you and your wife together now?"

"Yes, my wife was upset with me because sometimes I forget that I have a home and a family, this was all a mistake please don't judge them we love each other, many times we make mistakes, but we all have a second chance and my wife, and I are going to be happy from now on."

Julian didn't expect her to react because he grabbed her chin raising her head and left a tongueless kiss on his wife's lips for a moment, he forgot that he was upset with her, but he missed her so much that he couldn't stop kissing her. One of the camera's flashes made him keep his distance.

Julián's driver, seeing his boss leave, came over to help him and as soon as they got into the car, Mariana got as far away from it as she could.

"Take me to my hotel, Franco and ask someone to buy clothes for my wife." He ordered his chauffeur and right-hand man.

"You can leave me at my house." Mariana ordered the driver, who completely ignored her.

"No, they're here to do my bidding, not yours, and you're not going back to that house honey, you're going to behave like my wife."

"Sir" I speak frankly " The plane leaves tomorrow morning."

"You'll leave after making all this fuss." Mariana thought that Julian would leave after screwing up her life and making a fool of her in front of everyone.

"We'll go Mariana, I'm not going anywhere without my wife."

"I'm not leaving London, you're wrong" In her heart Mariana panicked when she found out about Julian's plans, if she thought about it, she didn't know him at all, she had married like a fool in love, but she didn't know who this man was who had cheated on her.

"We'll go to our house, my beauty."

"Don't call me 'my beauty' because I don't like it and we don't have any house Julian, you're going crazy."