Sugar baby by Mariam León (read aloud books txt) 📗

chapter 24

Chapter 25

Like everything that had to do with my sister, the place was huge, ostentatious and surely expensive.

 

I'm wearing the silver dress that Thal bought, it's a party dress, it hangs down to my ankles and it's really beautiful. The skin-colored chiffon fabric forms the sleeves while the silver of the dress begins on my breasts, in small irregular stripes that form a neckline, the silver stripes decrease on the sides and then leave the back visible under the chiffon fabric skin color before it started to cover my entire lower back just like the front. She was wearing matching gold shoes and a small diamond bracelet.

 

“ok your friend is a bit stiff but she is right that you are divine

 

Jack's voice makes me smile, I'm wearing light makeup and peach-colored lips.

 

"I do wonders with my hands darling

 

Thalia answers from my right pointing to the elaborate bun on my head.

 

“that of the wonders I doubt it

 

Then Jackson answered and breathed

 

"Both of you stop" I stare at them "we're going to go sit at the table and enjoy this clear waste of arrogance that Shia prepared.

 

“bale

 

"Yeah baby

 

They both answer and I smile hooking my arms in theirs and we walk straight to the doors.

 

If the front of the show room was stunning, there was no way to describe the interior.

 

The walls were of embedded stones, in one of which there was an artificial waterfall surrounded by vines and a pond.

 

A pond with fish! Real fish!

 

"Your sister's boyfriend is Forrado Vanny

 

Thalia whispers as we both look up at the glass ceiling.

 

Let's go to the table before I feel like running

 

Jackson huffs and we both walk across the carpeted floor to the table with our names on it.

 

The pristine white tablecloth was decorated with a small bouquet of miniature white roses. A bottle of champagne was on an ice bucket and of course some gift bags

 

"really?

 

Jackson snorts as two handcuffs dangle from his left finger.

 

The initials S and M were embossed above each of the locks, and I rolled my eyes as Thalia ate one of the chocolate treats inside her bag.

 

“ok, this is too flashy even for me

 

“oh my god then yes that is too much

 

Marck prods and I growl before they start again.

 

People arrive little by little filling the room and drinking happily while we wait for my sister's stellar entrance

 

"Honey" my mom smiles from the next table "you're not happy for your sister

Huy if you don't know how much!

 

Says my mind and smiled nodding at my mother. I sip my glass of champagne and smile at Jackson as he tells me something about his expectations for tonight.

 

The ceremony begins almost two hours later, the tables are arranged in rows leaving a row in the middle for the bride to walk to the altar, the priest seemed clearly bored of doing these ceremonies, he placed the cup, and you hold it on the table he served altar while my sister's uptight boyfriend smiled at his godparents and if my sister had her godmothers and I was not one of them. The wedding march began and Talia nudged me when I rolled my eyes. The truth is that the alcohol had gone to my head a bit.

 

Like everything in the wedding, my sister's dress had a train of almost a meter, it was a perfect white narrow at the waist and then cascading over her legs, the veil reached her waist, white and embroidered apparently hand. Her boyfriend smiled as he took my father's hand.

 

The priest delivered the sermon and I drank more and more, I would never have that. Samuel didn't want to get married and well there was also the fact that he didn't even try to call me but anyway the champagne made me happier every time.

 

The ceremony ended and the bride and groom waltzed, I danced with Jackson while Thal chatted with Rentan on his cell phone from the table. After two dances, Jackson took me to the table and began to dance with some girl until the music stopped. The bride went up to the small stage where the band was and smiled at the audience.

 

“Now I would like my father and sister to say a few words

Ha! Now!

 

I stumbled to my feet and walked to the front with my parents, almost tripping on the way up to the stage but no one seemed to notice. My parents spoke and then it was my moment I took the microphone and smiled at everyone before looking at my sister

 

"Shia" I half shouted "my older sister, I love you so much that in the end I don't give a shit that you're prim and hypocritical" there is a murmur among the crowd but I feel ashamed "I'm never going to get married" she continued while she forces a smile "but well here you are, spending so much money just to show how good and successful you are, I'm proud of you my little sister. Very very proud.

 

I continue but my father rips the mic off me as Jackson leads me back to the chair. I hug him as tears well up in my eyes and he strokes his fingers down my arm.

 

"baby, don't get like that for God's sake" he points to Thalia "you help me

 

"Vanny, honey he's just a man, there are many out there, Samuel is just a jerk who wants a new girl every week hanging on his arm, you deserve better and you know it

 

His words hurt me even more without caring that he is right, just to think that probably some girl is right now at home, in his bed, in his arms...

 

I close my eyes as my heart breaks for seconds. I sniff and whisper against Jackson's chest.

 

“No, I am not going to look for a man anymore” she cried “I am going to buy a ranch and I will die alone surrounded by cats

 

"shsss Vann" hugs me Jack "you don't need to buy a ranch you can go with me I'll let you collect all the damn cats you want.

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