True Love Waits

Chapter 304 At The Wedding

Carlos twitched his mouth awkwardly, trying to force a smile. He almost never smiled, but now he did it just to make Debbie happy. It didn't look convincing, it looked sad.

Before the wedding ceremony started, Megan arrived at the venue. She called Wesley at the entrance, and he left the table to guide her inside.

He hadn't brought Blair with him today, so Megan took a seat next to him, cautiously.

She greeted the others. They responded stiffly, as if it were just a formality. There was little warmth left there. Soon, their minds were on something else. Debbie went on talking to Adriana, and Carlos continued watching over Debbie nervously. Damon talked to him from time to time, but Carlos barely acknowledged him.

Then the emcee announced that the wedding ceremony was about to begin.

This was the first time Debbie had ever been to a wedding. She was amazed at how sumptuous and dreamlike everything was. The music, the lighting, the decorations, the wardrobe. It was incredible. When Colleen appeared in her wedding dress, Debbie's eyes glistened with admiration. The sacred white wedding gown was so beautiful that any woman would think it was the perfect wedding dress.

Noticing that she seemed engrossed, Carlos gave her hand a light squeeze. Debbie glanced at him and turned her attention to the bride and the bridegroom again. "Colleen is so beautiful today! Her dress is amazing. Look at them. They're so perfect together!" she said excitedly.

"You like that dress?" Carlos asked. And that was when he suddenly realized what a lousy husband he'd been.

He hadn't even given Debbie a proper wedding, the most treasured thing in a woman's life.

"Yes, it's gorgeous!" Debbie responded without looking at him. Drawn in by the sweet moment when the bride and the bridegroom exchanged rings, she didn't sense the subtle changes in his tone and expression.

Carlos said nothing else. He was putting together a plan.

When the new couple's parents were asked to come up on stage, the happiness and excitement drained from Debbie's face.

couple that stepped onstage were her grandparents, the

face to face with them, in public. Her grandpa, Elroy Lu, was an 82-year-old man with

Before she had given birth to Curtis and Gus, Elroy Lu had already had three other kids with his first wife,

Lu had five kids

had told Debbie that Elroy

Carlos whispered in her ear when

Curtis' nephew after all," she asked. She had met

brother, ' Carlos thought. He stroked her

she wouldn't have been allowed to be there either. She swallowed the bitterness and joked, "Hey honey. I guess that's one more perk of being married to you. He can't kick me out." Carlos could see that she was pretending to be strong despite the pain. His heart ached.

Debbie didn't think she and Curtis were that close. Sometimes his regard for her seemed

your mother just because she wanted to see you. He also heard Elroy Lu viciously threaten her." Reportedly, Debbie's mother's flesh hung from her in bloody shreds by the time he was done. Carlos spared Debbie

Lu treat his own daughter like that? "So it's because Mr. Lu feels bad for... that

head. "No,

time that Ramona had a son and a daughter, but back

he met a girl who was bringing takeout to the man she liked. She

a good scolding from him-the food

girl's eyes reddened, but she didn't cry. She smiled at him and told him that she

anger. He didn't spare so much as a

rain stopped, Curtis went out to eat. Then he saw the man eating at a table with another girl,

the hospital, intending to visit someone. At the entrance, a badly beaten girl was carried to the

her, but when he saw the man following them, he recognized him immediately. In the elevator, Curtis looked at the unconscious girl on the hospital gurney and recognized her. She was the girl who had brought