Chapter 60
It was finally d day and Luciano didn’t know if he was ready to get married. last night, he talked with Ariel and she seem to be doing fine even though she kind of looked scared to him. As he got ready for his wedding, Luciano couldn’t help but feel anxious, honestly, there was no reason to feel anxious, maybe the reason he was feeling this way was because he has never done this before, and it wasn’t something he thought he would do at the beginning of the year, heck up until a couple of weeks ago, he never thought Don could talk him into getting married and now here he was preparing.
“Damn, I can’t even wear my tie properly,”
He hissed after failing to do the shit for more than five minutes.
“Need help?”
Yoey asked walking into his room, he had asked him to be his best man since the wedding planner had said it was necessary to have one, Deda has been all smiles and calling him nonstop since the wedding announcement, the old man must be all over the moon because he finally got what he had been asking for years now.
“The tie won’t stay put, plus you can get married in my place too,”
He said throwing the tie at Yoey, who picked it up and walked towards him with it.
“Tie, I can fix but you are getting married boss, marriage is not for me, thank you,”
He answered as he helped him with the tie.
“Yeah, that’s what I said too for the longest time, now look at me,”
He lamented.
“To be fair, this is not by choice, you are doing this to make sure your family is safe, if Don just listened to you, I am sure you would still be single,”
“You bet I would,”
Luciano responded.
“And it is just for a short while, I am sure you can bear it, plus your wife seems to be a handful, I don’t think you will get bored with her,”
He said. Luciano agreed, Arielle was a handful for real, the only person other than his grandfather and Yoey who doesn’t fear him and tells him off, she gets away with lots of things other women might not get away with.
“Let’s go get you married,”
Yoey said when he was done with the tie.
“Yeah, let’s go,”
He responded and they both left his room together, he wanted to go see Arielle where she was getting ready but decided against it, it is not like he was scared of bad luck associated with meeting the bride before the wedding, he just didn’t want to make her feel anxious, he got into his car and the car drove in the direction of the wedding hall, both the official wedding and the reception were to be held in his event center, he didn’t choose a chapel for his wedding because he didn’t want to lie in church even though he wasn’t religious, as the event was an open ceremony, there were already a lot of people when he got to the venue, media, and news people were outside of the entrance and they all rushed towards his car, they were all yelling questions at his car even though the glass was rolled up and tinted.
“Make sure only authorized media are along into the venue,”
He instructed his men before walking into the wedding hall without waiting for their response.
“Sir, the governor is here, Don has arrived too,”
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“Okay? What would you have me do? Go and say hi?”
Luciano asked looking around the waiting room, the wedding would begin in about fifteen minutes and he wondered if Arielle has arrived yet.
“No, sorry sir,”
“Has she arrived?”
He asked.
“Yes, the vehicle carrying her was behind us and entered a few minutes ago.”
“Tell the officiant to start immediately, there is no need to waste time if the bride and groom are already here,”
He instructed and Yeoy walked away, he was back a few minutes later.
“It is time sir,”
Yeoy said and Luciano nodded and followed him out of the waiting room, they announced for him to walk in and he did, he stood at the podium and watched as the officiant announced the arrival of the bride.
“Wow,”
He let out when she made an entrance, the gown she had picked turned out much more prettier than it had looked in the photo that the dressmaker sent him, she wasn’t wearing a veil so he could see her face, she had on makeup for the first time since he met her, it did little though because she was already so beautiful without it, she smiled nervously and he wanted to walk up to her and hold her hands, she started walking towards him and he could feel her anxiousness but she never stopped smiling, neither did she look side way.
“You are so beautiful,”
He whispered to her when she got to him and he saw her eyes widen, he took her hands in his and could feel them shaking.
“Are you okay?”
He asked and she nodded before smiling at him, she was nervous, he could tell, now he kind of wished he had let her have a small wedding.
“Yes, I am, would you take me away if I say I am not?”
She whisper asked.
“May we have the attention of the bride and the groom, please? I understand you have a lot of love talk going on but let’s be done here first,”
The officiant said and the crowd in the hall let out a laugh, Arielle got shy and looked away, and Luciano smiled.
The wedding vows exchange was short and simple, Luciano had made sure they don’t include unnecessary long-term vows but they both made a promise to cherish each other and be each other’s better half, well to some extent, he intends to keep those promises, for starters, he already knew he lost with the debate about having other partners while being married to her, so for the next two years, it is going to be her and her alone, hopefully, it would be worth it.