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.

stepped onstage were her grandparents,

Elroy Lu, was an 82-year-old man with gray hair and a gray beard. His creased face wore

given birth to Curtis and Gus, Elroy Lu had already had three other kids with his first wife, including Ramona, Debbie's birth mother. After Ramona's mother had died he

Elroy Lu had five

that Elroy split her

her

head. "Isn't my... isn't he coming? He's Curtis' nephew after all," she asked. She had met

' Carlos thought. He stroked her hand and said, "He... Elroy told him

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

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

Lu viciously threaten her." Reportedly, Debbie's mother's flesh hung from her in bloody shreds by

treat his own daughter like that?

head. "No, he feels bad about

thing Carlos didn't tell Debbie was that Curtis had known for a long time that Ramona had a son and a daughter, but back

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

good scolding from him-the food was not

cry. She smiled at him and told him that she would get something else

walked away in anger. He didn't spare so much

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

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

paid much attention to 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.