part0045

It couldn't be true. 'How could the wedding be tomorrow, while I didn't know anything about it?' Ella tried to reason.

So far, she didn't feel as if she was a bride.

She had received a lot of congratulatory messages at work, but she thought it was because of the wedding pictures.

But, in hindsight, it seemed that everyone had received wedding invitations, and were congratulating her on that too.

Ella received a call from Eden, after she finished trying out her wedding dress, and was told that Mr. Si had granted her work leave for a period of time.

Ella was on the verge of freaking out. Everyone had known about the wedding, except her.

At the moment, she was driving. The more she thought about it, the angrier she became. Itching to know why she was kept in the dark for this long, she stopped by the side of the road and called Samuel.

Samuel was handing over impending cases to his partner, to ensure that his nuptials and honeymoon would be work-free, when his phone started ringing.

When he saw from the caller ID that it was Ella, he answered the phone, gleefully.

"Samuel, you bastard! Jerk!"

'What was wrong now?' Samuel was stunned and didn't know what had happened. "Honey, calm down! What happened?"

"Who are you marrying tomorrow?" Ella asked, angry.

"What do you mean? Who else would I be marrying other than, you, my Queen?"

Ella laughed when she heard the word "Queen", her anger dissipating a little bit. "Why didn't you tell me? Are you getting married to your ex-girlfriend tomorrow under the guise of marrying me?"

Ex-girlfriend? Samuel rubbed his throbbing temples.

"Ella, you are the only woman I love. Is it necessary for me to stress this every day? " Frankly speaking, Samuel was getting tired of this back and forth. But he was determined to assure her that he loved her, no matter how long and how annoying the process would be.

"But, Am I really your bride? Apparently, I'm getting married to you tomorrow, but I don't know anything about it!" Even though he declared his love for her, she still couldn't help complaining.

Samuel laughed, "You are my bride! In fact, I just wanted to surprise you."

Samuel cursed inwardly at whoever had revealed the secret.

He had arranged a wedding room in the old house because in his mind, his wife should marry him at their home. Even though the Royal Mansion is their house, the old house was their home, because that's where he had grown up and where his parents and grandma still resided.

Ella smiled when she heard that Samuel wanted to surprise her. She had never expected to have a wedding with Samuel. Even thought she was happy with how their relationship was progressing, she still feigned anger, "Anyway, this is your fault, and you must apologize to me."

"Yes, yes, honey, it's all my fault. Everything is ready. Today, you will sleep at your brother's place for the night and I'll come to take you home tomorrow morning." In fact, he didn't have a lot to do because he had hired a wedding planning company to manage everything.

However, Samuel still wanted to design some details of the wedding by himself, such as the decoration of the nuptial space.

"Fine! We'll talk about this after tomorrow!"

Ella hung up the phone, light-heartedly. But it occurred to her that there was one thing she needed to do before the wedding.

She bought a bouquet of flowers and drove to the cemetery.

With tears in her eyes, she stood in front of her parents' graves.

As expected, the grounds around the graves had been well-tended to, courtesy of Eason. And even when he had been abroad, he asked Samuel to do this, unbeknownst to Ella.

And after Eason came back, he occasionally came to make sure that the grounds were well-kept.

Ella laid down the white chrysanthemum. Peering at the pictures on the gravestone, memories flushed through her mind.

"Dad, mom, I'm sorry for not coming to see you for such a long time. I'm not a filial daughter."

Until now, she hadn't been here to see them for several years.

She felt that it was the right time to visit them, before she got married.

"Dad, mom, please forgive me.

I'll be coming to see you as often as I can.

You probably know that Samuel and I have a lovely girl. Her name is Jane. Samuel loves her so much and wants to make her his daughter legally before he announces to the whole world that Jane is his daughter..."

Ella could feel her mood becoming lighter.

"You don't need to worry about me anymore. Tomorrow I'll marry Samuel. In the past, you didn't want him to marry me because he had nothing at that time, but now we have everything. He loves me and makes me happier than I ever thought I could be. I never thought that I would ever have so much joy in my life."

She sobbed for a while. "Eason also has a little girl now but it's a pity that you don't have the chance to see her…"

Tears continued to stream down her face, uninhibited.

"Dad, mom, now that all those who did me wrong, have gotten what they deserved, I'm thinking of leaving the showbiz industry, stay home with Samuel and our children and take care of them. Samuel says he will take care of all our needs.

You know, at the beginning, it was me who went into Samuel's room and had sex with him, which I thought was my fault. I tortured myself because of this. But now we are happy and I do not regret anything I've done.

However, I learnt a lot of lessons, that I can hopefully share with Jane when she gets older. I hope she doesn't repeat the mistakes I made."

The cemetery was very quiet, except from her soft whispers. She leaned against the gravestones, as she opened up to her parents. Thirty minutes later, she left, dragging her numb legs, back to her car.

She looked at the graves from afar and said gently, "Next time, I'll bring Jerry and Jane to see you. "

And then she drove away slowly.

At night, Ella stayed at the Emerald Community. The next morning, she awoke to the sound of Eason knocking on the door before the sun rose.

"Ella, get up! The glam team for your wedding have arrived."

After a long time, Ella suddenly sat up in bed and looked around the room in a daze.

And then she remembered that today was the day. It was her wedding day.

She smiled sweetly and shouted to Eason, who was knocking at her door, persistently, "Okay. I'm getting up."