THUG PASSION: Wedding Romance (10 page)

As Nils was a public figure in the fashion industry, he needed to be careful with his image and with what he was putting out there of himself, especially regarding his private life.

For Carolina it was a good thing that he cared and wanted to keep their relationship private.

When they started to date almost three years ago, they went public for the first time a couple months after they were together, it catch Carolina entirely by surprise, as she didn’t realize at the time how famous he was.

A photo from them went viral online and in the magazines when they walked out together hand in hand from Hakkasan restaurant in London, taken by paparazzi that recognized Nils as a fashion raccoon.

This time Nils said to Carolina he wants to keep it private for as long as possible, she was grateful as she preferred to stay in the shadows as long as she could too.

When Nils saw Carolina so enthusiastic helping organizing the gala ball with the charity committee, he knew he needed to be there and support her and her work. So he invited himself to go with her, she was very happy that he was a man who could be at her side when she needed him.

Both friends and the London society in general would be at the ball, she knew it was time to make their relationship public, including the press that loved one gossip from one of the owners from the UK’s largest fashions company with his new relationship.

Nils got to get Carolina to her house, coming already prepared with his slick tuxedo, it didn’t really matter what he wore, he looked always very elegant and because he was tall and thin every type of clothes always looked magnificent on him.

He was a man with excellent taste in clothe, it didn’t matter what he was wearing, he looked always very fashionable and everything fit him as costume made, probably they were, but Carolina never asked.

 Getting a little nervous about tonight’s development, she knew it was time letting the relationship with Nils move forward, it was the right thing to do, for her, and for Nils.

He was the man who loved and respected her as a woman, hoping she could love him back the same way he loves her one day.

She started to believe that one day she really would get there, she deserves it and so does Nils.

At each passing day she learned to throw away her thoughts about JP whenever they insisted to return.

She started genuinely appreciate everything about Nils, every time she was with him.

Sometimes, very rarely now and then when she was alone, her thoughts slipped her mind without authorization to JP, making her missing him, whenever this happened she felt her chest pressed as if something very heavy was trying to crush her.

She ended up feeling guilty to think that she was betraying Nils in thoughts.

Replacing comforting thoughts which cut in total JP’s contact was the right solution, she knew he didn’t deserve her, she knew now she was only losing her time by hoping one day he would like her the way Nils likes her. Now more than ever, she was confident that she would forget JP completely one day.

Tonight it would be the night to put JP in the past for good. It would be a special night for Carolina; it would be the beginning of a new stage in Carolina’s life with Nils for a future together.

The occasion deserved a special dress and Carolina bought a label and expensive dress for the ball she want Nils to be proud of her.

She was about to get to the final touch, Nils rang the door right on time; she was ready to go with him to the event.

She wore a long and tight dress-shaped dark blue mermaid, on the top was strapless neckline with heart-shaped embroidered on the edges with bright Swarovski beads with open back, silver-heeled Jimmy Choo sandals, because of the dress length they were not always visible and a silver colour clutch to match.

It wasn’t Carolina habit to dress and wear clothing of expensive labels, but she likes to have a few pieces for special occasions, like tonight.

With London’s weather there is always the need of something extra, so she decides to put over her shoulders a long fur coat in white and gray.

Carolina looked pleased at the mirror seeing her so elegantly tight up, surprised with herself how amazing she looked tonight.

As soon Nils sets eyes on Carolina all her dazzled elegance, he was astounded how beautiful and over the top she looked.

She looked at his eyes like a movie star ready for a premiere. He smiled at her, approaching getting near enough to kiss her tenderly.

Without warning he knelt at Carolina’s feet, it took a moment for Carolina to realize what’s going on and why Nils was kneeling. Looking at her and pulling out of her tuxedo trousers a small box, at the same time he was opening the small box and looking in her eyes, he pops out the question:

“Carolina you are the most amazing woman I ever met, would you like to be my woman, and take me as your husband for the rest of your life?”

She was expecting tonight would be a night of changes, but she wasn’t counting having so many changes in just one night, when he asks her to marry offering her a beautiful diamond ring her heart freezes and all her blood seems to stop pumping in her body. She was completely paralyzed and in shock.

She wanted tonight to be a special night, but not that special, it was too much for her, and maybe it was just too much too soon.

Caught completely off guard she didn’t feel quite ready to move already to get married.

Again JP clouded her thoughts, feeling numb not knowing what to answer, but she knew what would be the right answer.

Nils waited kneeled patiently a few seconds, what seem to be an eternity for both for an answer.

The only thing Carolina was able to do, was meeting and hugging him with tender she couldn’t speak, neither yes nor no.

She couldn’t open her mouth.

She was terrified.

Recovering slowly, she takes her hands to Nils shrugged making an effort to raise him from the ground. He looks at her confused.

"I thought this was what you wanted"

"And I want to but you caught me completely off guard and I was chocked, sorry"

They sat for a moment in Carolina’s coach, without saying another word he reaches the ring inside the box and puts the diamond on Carolina’s finger.

She let him put the ring on her finger, she was not sure she was ready to take the next step, but still thought it would take some time to planning the wedding it would give her time to get used to the idea, it was the right decision.

After the ring in her finger, she looked at the ring and to Nils, she knew he was expecting a comment and said to him:

“It’s the most beautiful ring I ever seen”.

Hugging and given him a sweet kiss.

They left the apartment engaged.

When they finally arrived at the hotel, they were escorted from the entrance to the hall before the venue room where they were served with a flute of champagne.

The waiters were very busy handing out champagne making all guests welcomed and happy, it was an evening with a good start.

The hall was filling up with guests while they took a sip of champagne they could appreciate art pieces for the silent action displayed all around.

The silent auction was usually done online, so there were at each table 2 to 3 Ipads with capacity for 10 people, with the description and prices of the products being auctioned. All guests could bid as they were assigned to a respective password.

The auction would follow throughout dinner and only at the end of the dinner, the action would be closed and the winner known.

Everyone could see the name in the Ipads who bids what and for how much.

When the room opened everyone started to step in and all guests could see a huge placard which whom would be with whom on each table.

As Carolina and Nils had just bought two places, they would stay with four couples more, who they probably didn’t knew who they were.

It took them a few minutes to discover their table, and with great surprise they had as tablemates one of the greatest writers of England with his wife, a very friendly couple who was visible a big age difference the wife was definitely a wife-trophy, the other two couples were Carolina and Nils social friends, they meet before in several events when they were together for the first time, both couples were pleasantly surprised to see them together as a couple again.

The dinner went super fun with all people at the table, all the guests were delighted with the wonderful dinner there was a well-known band playing and singing. Carolina didn’t pay attention to the name because she was animatedly talking with one of the couples. She had to look into the book that was filled with the full night program, when she ready who the band was, she realize it was a band that had recently won a contest on television.

After dinner, everyone wanted to have fun, some wanted to dance while others were visibly curious about the auction outgoing to win the chosen pieces, so they continued to bid on the silent auction spending millions to help the cause.

Carolina and Nils bid on a painting both liked, was a well-known painter of modern art, they were hoping to have their first acquisition for their future together.

Life was starting to make sense to Carolina; she was starting to lose herself to Nils and seeing him as the man for the rest of her life.

As they were busy trying to see if they were still in the race for the painting, Daniel arrived to greet them and as soon he saw Carolina’s ring he showed genuinely happiness giving congratulations to both, making Carolina feel a little bit intimidated by the situation when she hadn’t even had time to adapt to the idea that she was engaged to Nils.

After Nils and Carolina greet all the people they knew and be introduced to many others, they went to the dance floor and danced music from the 80s together, he wasn’t a great dancer but it was fun to watch him, he struggled to follow Carolina, who slides on the dance floor if she had been born to dance.

Carolina had always loved dancing and as soon she hears music and had a place to dance, she would dance; it was as if the music beats gives instructions to her body to move in agreed rhythms and making her sexy to the observes eyes.

As she dances, Nils grabs her from behind and hugs her.

While they were dancing hugged each other, Carolina closed her eyes and she open her eyes again just to embraced the moment and record in her mind all that environment they were, looked at to the exit door she seemed to glance JP, but she thought it couldn’t be possible because they were in a huge city and there was always lots of things going on, and she couldn’t see JP in this kind of events. It wouldn’t be for sure right there in the same place that Carolina was, not tonight.

She found that the unconscious desire to return to see JP was so much that she imagined him somewhere.

She turned her eyes away from the door, closing them trying to focus on the steady hands of Nils on her hips, she wanted to forget the mirage that appeared in her mind, trying to forget and having fun with Nils dancing.

But now she hadn’t the same energy as before, she was a little bit upset because she was having such a great time with Nils, and there it was JP back in her mind, it was not fair to her or Nils.

She didn’t know if it was the fact that she realized she was engaged now or was because her thoughts slipped to JP, thinking she had seen him, she felt tired suddenly almost depressed and just wanted to go home.

She was completely off and didn’t felt like going home to Nils place tonight, she wanted to go to her house, she wanted to be alone, and she needed the comfort and safety of her home and to be alone.

Before she gets the courage to tell Nils she wants to go out of there as soon as possible, decides to go to the toilet and put some water on her face, having a little bit of air and maybe after she would feel better and could change her mind and continue partying with Nils and maybe go with him home.

She stretched to reach Nils’s ear and told him she was going to the toilet, she wouldn’t take long.

When walking towards the exit door she watched back the busy room with that entire happy people dancing and drinking, everyone seemed to be having fun.

Even glanced at the room trying to see JP, but there was no sign of him.

While she was walking the huge marble atrium she starts to feel more and more relaxed, the anxiety that started minutes ago at the gala room was calming down and she felt a little more serene.

Following slowly the signs to find the toilet, she finds the access to a narrow corridor ending in the toilet facilities for men and women.

The hallway was empty and cold, making Carolina feeling good, giving at the same time a shiver from the cold.

Carolina was about 3 meters to open the door that leads to the women's toilet, when she saw the men’s door opening and a man getting out.

Her eyes almost jumped from their orbits, the jaw dropped without order and her body froze completely, she couldn’t believe what she was seeing, JP was a few meters away in front of her.

She was not going crazy after all, and her mind wasn’t preaching tricks, he was right there in front her.