“What’s going on? Why was Murphy absent before but now appears with the opposing group?”
“There must be a reason. Let’s continue to watch how the scene unfolds…”
“Now we’re talking!”
Evan and the others walked to the stage before he and Levant engaged in a stare down. Their eyes were sharp like razors, causing sparks to fly as the atmosphere around them became tense.
“Why are you here, Sophia?” Nicole looked at Evan’s mother in surprise.
“Go to your Nicole now, Evan!”
Evan then stepped onto the stage to stand beside Nicole.
That was when everyone noticed that Evan was also in a groom’s suit.
“Wait. Who’s the groom here?”
“There are two of them. This is ridiculous! How can something like this happen?”
Nicole shot the man a puzzled look. “What’s going on? When did you get out of Wicked Palace? And how?”
Levant was just as baffled as Nicole was when he looked at Murphy. “What is going on, Dad? This is your son’s wedding! Why are you with them?”
“Your father is my father’s uncle. That’s why he’s with us,” answered Juan readily.
Frowning, Levant thought about what the young boy said. If Murphy is Evan’s uncle, he and Sophia are considered siblings, which makes Evan and I… Cousins.
Levant found the idea confusing.
“Dad, since when did I have an aunt? How did I not know about such a thing before?”
Sophia stepped up to explain the situation to the man herself.
“Of course, you wouldn’t know. You only found out about Murphy recently. I left Wicked Palace a long time ago. To be exact, I left more than twenty years ago with my mother. That was even before I got married, and I never came back. I wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for you. Evan and Nicole love each other, Levant. Even if you manage to marry her with your schemes, you won’t be happy. Instead of the three of you suffering, why not let Nicole go so that she can be with Evan? I’m sure you’ll find someone better eventually.”
Sophia’s words were loud and clear. Levant felt as though those words were a death sentence to his love for Nicole. The man felt as if the sky itself had fallen.
He refused to listen to reason, so he turned to Murphy. “Dad, today is my wedding day with Nicole. Don’t you want to see us get married?”
Murphy let out a long sigh. “Levant, when I agreed to help you make Nicole lose her memory, you said you’d let her go if she didn’t end up falling for you even with her amnesia. Why are you still refusing to let her go now? There are plenty of fishes in the sea. It doesn’t have to be her you marry. Listen to your old man, Levant. Let her go because you deserve better.”
The sudden turn of events was like a bolt from the blue to Levant.
He had thought that he would spend the rest of his life with Nicole after that day because he had done everything he was supposed to. The third wedding with the woman was supposed to be foolproof.
Never did he expect everyone to be against him on his wedding day. Even Stephen, the one who had raised him, stirred up trouble in the middle of the ceremony. His biological father, Murphy, somehow managed to find his aunt and almost every member of the Seet family to stop his wedding.
Levant had given his all and was so close to realizing his dream, only to watch it shatter to pieces.
He felt as if his heart had been torn out.
Looking at Stephen and Murphy, the man sneered, “My stepfather chose to ignore my feelings for his daughter’s sake, and my own father made the same choice for his nephew’s sake.”
