Filed to story: Bring It On My Mafia Life Novel (Rhea & Lukas)
As if to answer her question, the door opened the next minute and Clara turned to welcome Lukas with open arms only for the smile on her face to drop when she saw the two burly men standing in front of her. She recognized them, and they worked for Lukas, but they were not Lukas.
“What is going on here?” Clara was angry and flabbergasted at the same time. They just killed her hope; she wanted to see Lukas.
However, both men didn’t say anything and strode over to where Clara stood and grabbed her.
“What the hell are you doing?” Clara was shocked, but before she could say another word, a rag was pressed against her nose and she lost consciousness. In one word, she was abducted before her wedding.
Clara Must Be Running Late
The cathedral was filled with guests and after the procession, family members had taken their places on either side of the altar. Daniel was seated at the front with his head raised high. Before they headed down the aisle, he had been busy socializing and schmoozing with guests who were eager to make his acquaintance.
Just as he imagined, most of Alberta’s family members had returned home to grace the wedding ceremony even though it was on short notice. Hence, the wedding ceremony was filled with dignitaries and more were to arrive at the reception.
Daniel didn’t care if his family members attended or not, all that mattered was Lukas marrying Clara today. However, it seems the bunch of losers were eager to suck up to him. Hence, his cousins Benjamin and Robert alongside their sons and daughter – he couldn’t see the useful yet illegitimate one, Adele, only the useless one, Cindy or whatever she was called – were beside him.
Daniel snorted inwardly, his relatives were a joke. Thankfully, his son Lukas was different and all of his hard work paid off. Just a look at his second cousins, Lukas should be thanking him for not letting him turn out that way. But of course, his son was an ungrateful bastard.
The only person Daniel would have valued her presence was his sister, Carmine, but she wasn’t here. No, unless it was very necessary, the both of them never interacted as family members do. She has not forgiven him for their brother, and probably would do never till she died.
She was never going to understand that he never intended for Albine to die. Who knew that their crazy uncle would go as far as to eliminate their brother whom he saw as a threat after provoking him? But then, that single move paved a way for their family and they came into power.
Sure, she has the right to be angry, but for how long? Carmine should be thanking him, because all of the privileges she was enjoying today were a result of his hard work. Wasn’t it hypocritical to blame him and reap the benefit as well?
Daniel turned to his assistant by his side, “Tell me, what is my son up to?” He wouldn’t be made a laughing stock, especially with Benjamin and Robert present. Both of them would give anything to see that both of them fought against each other. And though he and his son fought, both of them had to present a united front today. Their relatives shouldn’t see their weakness.
“None so far,” The assistant answered just as the bride’s mother walked up to the altar, “Your threat worked and he’s walking in soon, anyway.”
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A smile tugged Daniel’s lips to the side as he nodded his head, Lukas made the right choice as he thought. He was his son after all and could see the bigger picture. Daniel was so proud of him.
Speak of the devil.
The both of them looked up as Lukas, the groom himself came up. His son looked impeccably in his black suit and his handsomeness didn’t escape the eyes of some of the guests. Daniel lifted his head proudly as his son drew attention without even trying hard. At least, Penelope had done a good thing by giving his son the looks – not that he (Daniel) wasn’t handsome.
Lukas was followed up by his best man Victor who was dressed in a green suit, not even a dark one, and Daniel groaned in disapproval.
Leave it to that deviant to wear something unconventional to this holy matrimonial. Victor had always been the weird one in the family and had Daniel known that he would be in that striking color, he would have changed everything. Young people these days were full of nonsense.
Victor drew quite an attention as well and some of the guests even took out their phone and began to take pictures of him as if he was some celebrity or something on a runway. The attention should be on his son, Lukas. Well, Victor was useful to his son and soon, the attention would naturally move to his son afterward.
Lukas was a natural-born leader and king, hence the others would always remain under him. Everyone shines but no one shines brighter than the sun aka Lukas. The paired-up wedding party came up next and honestly, even Lukas didn’t know those groomsmen personally – they were picked from God knows where.
Everything was arranged at the last minute and their purpose was to make sure the wedding was as real as possible. As per the wedding custom, they didn’t want any of that practice missing else it confirms the people’s suspicion that they were hurrying because Clara was pregnant and this was a shotgun wedding.
Alberta’s family’s reputation would be tarnished and Daniel couldn’t allow that to happen to know that was the only reason he forced Clara on his son. It was all because of her family’s reputation and background and If something were to happen to that, it would be his loss.
That was the only reason the marriage was happening. Aside from that, Clara doesn’t even deserve his son one bit and there were other powerful Mafia families that he could marry Lukas off to and strengthen both family’s bonds through the union.
The flower girl and the ring bearer were the last set of people to enter while the audience waited for the bride to make her entrance. Because her father was late and Clara was an only child, one of their relatives would be the one giving her away to the groom, Lukas.
The choir was already singing a hymn, while the whole church turned to the door, awaiting the bride’s entrance. However, when five minutes passed and there was no still sign of Clara, everyone knew something was wrong.
Murmurs began to arise and Daniel’s brows furrowed suspiciously. He looked at his son Lukas at the altar waiting for his bride and his poker face made it difficult to tell what he was up to.
No, Clara must be running late or something, he assured himself and waited. Thankfully, not less than ten minutes later when the tension was high and the murmurs become unbearable, the door opened.
The Wedding Was Over
For over fifteen minutes, there was no sign of Clara coming out and just when everyone was about to conclude her disappearance, the door was opened and everyone turned in its direction.
However it wasn’t Clara standing at the entrance, but her mother, Diana, instead, and that drew a shocked gasp from the crowd. What was going on? Where was Clara?
By now, everyone was already assuming what was going on, hence, it wasn’t really surprising when Diana lifted a paper and announced that her daughter had given up on the wedding.
There was an instant uproar and Daniel stood to his feet, his eyes blazing with fire and he turned in the direction of Lukas who stood at the spot unaffected.
“What is going on?”
“Why did Clara suddenly call off the wedding?”
“Just as I thought, why would Clara give up on Luther just to marry this man from nowhere?”
Those conversations came from around him and Daniel heard it all. His hands instantly formed into a fist and he commanded his assistant,
“Quick, go and find out what is going on?”
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“Yes, sir!” He bowed his head and took off instantly.
He then turned to glare at Lukas. This was not ordinary, Daniel knew that his son was somehow involved in whatever was going on. After all, he had always been against the marriage from the very start, and to think that he no longer has leverage over him except the girl – that Lukas must have hidden by now.
Daniel merely threatened Lukas and didn’t make any more plans because he never thought his son would dare to go against his order. All he needed was leverage or a threat and Lukas obeyed his will like an obedient sheep. But that clearly wasn’t the case anymore, and he needed this incident to see it.
He should have kept an eye on him yesterday, however, Daniel was not discouraged. The only reason he made no plans nor try to thwart his son’s effort of hiding the girl was because he was confident that he could find her.
Unlike his son who let petty emotions get in the way of his plans, he, Daniel, would employ any means possible to track down the girl wherever he was hiding her. Lukas just did him a huge favor anyway because he loved the thrill of the chase anyway.
Lukas choose war and he was not the type to go back on his words. Just as Daniel promised Lukas, he would make sure the girl doesn’t survive today. His son wanted bloodshed, he would get one.
“This wedding is over, you can leave,” Diana announced to the guests present and the murmuring only increased.
However, Daniel stepped out, saying, “This wedding is over, says who?”
That was not going to happen. Lukas was left standing at the altar, their family would suffer the embarrassment while the Alberta’s would be criticized. Moreover, his plans couldn’t be over just like that.
“Says me, the groom, who was abandoned at the altar. My bride decided to run off and I would rather die than continue with the wedding. If you’re so eager to watch this wedding happen, you can track down Clara and marry her instead. I’m sure she wouldn’t mind considering the both of you are besties,” Lukas said in front of the guest, taking off his suit jacket and tossing it away.