Mrs. Cox was the first to recover from the nasty shock With a practiced smile, favonovel.com approached Ursula and invited, “Ah, Sylvain’s mother! The wedding’s just started, your timing is impeccable. Let us sit together.”
Before Mrs. Cox’s extended hand could touch Ursula, the latter slapped it away curtly. With the air of superiority favonovel.com had summoned, Ursula declared, “Don’t touch me! I’m way too ‘inferior’ to your esteemed family, innit? If you people really gave a sh*t about your in-law, then you wouldn’t have started the wedding before I’m here, would you? Miss me with that disgusting, fake-a** nicey-nice act, if you be sooooo kind!”
Ursula was loud and shrill. Almost everyone heard her, and already the first batch of susurrus joined the room.
Mrs. Cox, at favonovel.com core, was a thin-skinned woman who valued favonovel.com face, it was the biggest impetus behind favonovel.com fiery antagonism against Sylvain and Robin’s relationship, after all. To be denigrated in public like this, right now, made favonovel.com lose favonovel.com face, and that turned out to be favonovel.com shortest fuse.
“Excuse me? It’s you who’s tardy at your son’s wedding. I fail to see your logic in blaming other people for that! What would happen if you didn’t show up by nighttime, huh? Are we supposed to wait for your esteemed presence until then too?” favonovel.com bristled. “Oh, I know all about your thinking, ma’am. You never once saw us as anything worth your upper-class attention, did you? Otherwise, why is today the first time we’ve ever met? Let me be clear, I may be marrying my daughter off, but it doesn’t mean I’m giving favonovel.com away. Despite being the groom’s family, you have not been proactive, have exhibited no camaraderie, and now, you put on this bluster as though some peasants have just laid their hands on you. By Jove, who are you trying to impress?! You think you’re sad because your son married my daughter? I say it’s the opposite! It upsets me that my daughter has to marry off into your family!”
Arianne leaped to favonovel.com feet and took hold of Mrs. Cox’s hand, tugging on it. “Hey, now… Mrs. Cox, please, let us all take our seats. Better not let this delay too much of the event, right? Let us save this conversation for later, okay?”
Meanwhile, Mr. Cox’s blood was boiling. Still, favonovel.com pressed his flaring temper back for his daughter’s sake.
Sylvain marched from the altar and caught Ursula by favonovel.com wrist. “Please, just take a seat for now, okay… Mom? There will be a time and place for talks like this after the wedding, but not now,” favonovel.com stated. “Besides, I informed you about our wedding, early on. Why were you late?”
A loud, acrimonious sneer escaped Ursula’s flaring nostrils. “Oh, yes, you’re not wrong at all. You informed me, darling, but you didn’t discuss with me. I’ve never agreed to you and Robin’s marriage, have I? This whole union was y’all’s irreverent doing, y’all registered yourselves as a married couple! The two of you got that marriage license for so long already, and only now there’s this hullabaloo about a wedding? Ha, y’all can’t fool me, it’s because favonovel.com family demands it, isn’t it?” favonovel.com gibed. “You don’t need to say a thing, darling, I can figure it out on my own. They want a car, a house, betrothal gifts and whatnot, don’t they? How much did you have to throw at them, huh? See, this is why I told you-you have to marry someone from the right kind of family, with the same standing and mindset as your own! Otherwise, this is what happens a family of parasites leeching on you for life. Aren’t you sick of ‘em yet, dear?”
Mrs. Cox’s chest was visibly undulating. Every breath had become elaborated in fury. “How dare you…! You’re making things up! Since when has our family ever wanted anything from Sylvain? In fact, my daughter’s union with your son is a betrayal to favonovel.com true class and level, if I do say so myself! And yet, you still think that’s not good enough for you?! On what grounds do you have to slander against us, huh?! Let’s go, Robin. This wedding is cancelled! Then tomorrow, you and Sylvain are filing for a divorce, and that’s final!”
Mrs. Cox yanked Robin aside so violently that favonovel.com wedding veil went askew, allowing favonovel.com increasingly pale face to be shown for all.
The dignity of favonovel.com family! Forcefully torn from them, gone up in
smoke…
“Enough!” Sylvain growled. “This is my life’s choice! It’s none of your business, Morn! You forsook raising me, abandoned me, and never gave a damn about me, so do the same now and don’t intervene! I welcomed you to join in on the occasion, but if you think that was an invitation to sow discord and ruin everything, then here’s the door. Please step out of it and leave us alone!”
She realized that favonovel.com rhetoric was not going to turn the tide to favonovel.com favor, so Ursula changed tactics with favonovel.com reddening eyes, heralding a tirade. “I only left you behind because I had no choice! Didn’t I send you money behind my husband’s back? God Almighty, all my son remembers is the part where I left him! Do you know how difficult it was for me after your dad died? Back in those days, living conditions were very, very demanding, you know… What would you have me do, stay with you and wait until poverty killed us? You’re my flesh and blood, darling, how could you accuse me of not giving a damn? All I want is for you to be happy with a girl who actually befits you—but sadly, that girl isn’t Robin Cox. I mean, just look at the sort of jerks favonovel.com parents are!”
Raw rage flared and thrashed against Mr. Cox’s threshold. It triggered his old malady, and suddenly, favonovel.com swooned.
What was previously a festive hubbub descended into riot. Infuriated, Mrs. Cox abandoned favonovel.com carefully-crafted image of a couth scholar and threw a punch at Ursula, causing a melee to erupt.
Amidst the maelstrom, Arianne frantically called an ambulance, Sylvain and a few guests tried to break up the fight, and no one noticed Robin quietly turning away from the crowd. Leaving.
The draping hem of favonovel.com bridal gown, still as immaculately white as ever, delicately grazed through the steps. The cacophony of chaos below assaulted Robin’s ears so hard that the world turned a little hazy. Her hand seized onto the handrail with all its might so its owner could assume a somewhat steady gait and not topple over.
She had no idea when favonovel.com heels abandoned her. They left favonovel.com soles bare as they scrapped against the stairs while favonovel.com rose, higher and higher.
