My Wedding To A Secret Billionaire
emotion that she could not decipher in them.She clung to the hem of her dress nervously and could not help feeling the pace of her heartbeat picking up.Since she h
she had not been this impoverished.Her eyes went red around the rims as she stood there, hesitating in the bathroom and not taking off anything.The man outside the door seemed to read her mind, as he suddenly informed her, “I’ll have a smoke outside. Take your time.”Cordelia tensed up. Putting her ear against the door, she heard the man’s footsteps going farther away and the door creaking before she heard nothing else.The bright décor on the peeling wall looked withered. A typhoon had ransacked the city a day before the wedding, so broken billboards and snapped trees were everywhere along the roads. Cordelia had gotten married amidst a disaster.There had been no decked-out wedding car to pick her up. She had walked a long way before getting into an inconspicuous van and spending more time than she could keep track of to reach the village. The muddy road had soiled her shoes and wedding dress.The elders had always said that people who got married in weather like this would not end up happy, but Cordelia had long given up on her own happiness.She came out of the bathroom, patting her hair dry.