Continuation of "Gone with the Wind"

Chapter 140 Eight Lola's Groom ([-])

The bastard is late!

Lola thought it would be more accurate to say that the guy she paid to play her husband might have gone away with her $1, leaving her alone with a room full of guests. How to explain.She should have known this would happen.From the start, her plans go awry.This guy named James had caused her a lot of headaches from the very beginning.

Fortunately, as a lawyer, she signed a contract with him in advance to prevent things from changing.Now it seems that this is really a wise decision.

However, it would make her feel much more comfortable if she could take this guy to court and be entangled in lawsuits for a lifetime so that she could vent her grievances.She was determined not to let him go!

Laura took another look at her diamond-encrusted Rolex, as if she'd been wrong the few times she'd looked at it.25:10.Yes, he was indeed late, twenty minutes late.Well, it seems that there is no hope!Laura threw the bridal bouquet she bought that afternoon on the expensive bed where she slept alone.She decided to go downstairs and tell everyone that the wedding had been called off.However, she would rather be shot on the spot than tell her grandmother the truth.

"Grandma, I'm sorry, I've tried my best." Just as Laura was walking towards the door, thinking about how to speak, there was a knock on the door. "Come in!" she yelled.

The one who walked in was her close friend who was like a brother and sister.As a child, she wished she had a brother.If there are two children in the family, maybe the two of them will exchange ideas more, and they will understand their parents' thoughts better.

"He's late," Doug, a 36-year-old blonde, said as he walked in.He and Sarah, who is one year younger than him, are both partners in the law firm.This firm is the most prestigious in Hartford, the capital of Connecticut.Additionally, Doug teaches law at Connecticut State University.

"Not really," Laura said.

"I don't know where he is." He was clearly as disturbed as Laura. "It's really not like him."

"Forget it! Doug, apart from knowing that he took one of your courses and is in urgent need of money, how much do you know about him?"

"We all have a gut feeling about people, and I just don't believe he's the type to be irresponsible."

"But he didn't come after all, did he?"

Doug was speechless for a while, sighed and said, "Yes, I can't deny it."

Laura fiddled impatiently with her perfectly groomed bridal hairdo with her perfectly manicured nails and said, "I should have known this would not work."

Doug smiled suddenly: "What's the matter? Laura, do you regret the ridiculous method you came up with?"

Yeah?From the moment she saw James, she felt angry.Maybe it's because he's clearly showing that no matter how much she despises him, he despises her in the first place.If Laura hadn't known that he was a high-achieving law student with a year left to graduate, she would have thought James was some country cowboy.

Wearing torn jeans and dingy riding boots, with his shaggy brown hair tucked under a dirty cowboy hat and a scraggly mustache on his upper lip, he looked like something out of the Old West. .

She could imagine what it would be like if he appeared in the crowded room downstairs.It was almost like the sludge that had been brought in under his feet, filthy in the imported carpet she bought.

No matter how hard she tried, she couldn't hide her distaste for James, who was her natural enemy.

Of course, the marriage was nothing more than a sham, and it only lasted a few weeks at most.If her grandmother hadn't sabotaged the plan, the marriage would have ended before the ink on the marriage certificate had dried.

However, her grandmother suddenly and unexpectedly decided to come to the wedding, and even the grandmother's physician was surprised.This decision threw twists and turns in the original arrangement.

"I'll ask again," Doug said, "do you regret it?"

"Of course not." Although Laura said so, she was not sure if she was lying.Maybe she felt slightly relieved, but she still couldn't shake what her grandmother's doctor had said to her.

"Honestly, Miss Laura," Dr. Ray had told her on the phone three weeks earlier, "I'm worried about your grandma."

Dr. Lei shared one of her worst worries.Ever since Grandpa Jack O'Hara passed away a few weeks before his seventieth wedding anniversary, his always active grandmother had been ill and had been in bed for almost three months.

"I'm afraid," continued Dr. Ray, "that your grandmother is determined to follow in your grandfather's footsteps."

Laura was worried too.Since she was sensible, she knew that the marriage of her grandparents has always been admired by everyone.Although they experienced many twists and turns and bizarre things, they finally settled down 20 years before the advent of the 15th century and lived a happy married life.

After speaking with the doctor on the phone, Laura rushed to her grandmother's home in Boston, trying to persuade her to return to Hartford with her, but the grandmother refused.No one could convince the grandmother to leave the house she once shared with her beloved husband.

Laura wasn't sure when the idea of ​​this sham marriage had crossed her mind.All she knew was that it came from her grandmother's sadness and her own despair.

Although Grandma was reluctant to leave her Boston home, she had been looking forward to Laura's wedding with all her heart.After all, she is her only granddaughter.If Laura fulfills her grandmother's wish and takes out a marriage certificate to prove it, will it bring her back to life?

However, the grandmother insisted on coming to the wedding to meet her granddaughter's new husband.So the plans had to be changed, and not only was a wedding added, but expanded to include a meeting with the grandmother, which took at least a few weeks.As for the wedding and temporarily living together under the same roof, James agreed, but insisted on adding extra money, twice the original agreement!

In the end, this guy didn't come!Why was she so stupid that she gave him the money beforehand?

She's going to tell the damn guy that she's going to drag him into court for breach of contract, and she's going to have all the cops in Connecticut after him, and she's going to...

A loud noise came in through the window along with the first wave of fresh autumn wind.Frowning, Laura walked to the window and drew back the elegant purple silk curtains.She saw someone downstairs pulling into the porch of her luxury home on Lake Shore Drive.The small truck, which was worn out and old, and the exhaust pipe was still emitting white smoke, suddenly turned off.By comparison, it seemed to be dismissed by all the limousines parked around.

Laura saw the door of the car click open and a man in a cowboy hat stepped out. She immediately closed the curtains, closed her eyes, and murmured, "Oh, my God!"

"It seems that the wedding will still be held as usual." Doug said.

Although Laura didn't know whether she should be happy or scared at this moment, at least she was sure that the car should be sent to the junkyard to end its suffering.

Perhaps, its owner should have the same fate.

Watching his bride holding flowers, James approached him and the priest.Mendelssohn's "Wedding March" fills the air, but that's the result of an urgent tune change.

To be honest, Obenson's "Crying" played earlier seems to be more suitable for this moment.

A few minutes earlier, James had been turned away by a tough valet in a white coat, who had insisted on taking his cowboy hat off his head.

Then Doug appeared, and Doug walked in with Jajaime, his hat off, where a friendly-looking priest and many guests were waiting for him.

Priest Shkley, dressed in black, was smiling.He would probably feel insulted if he knew that what he was officiated at was a fake wedding.

Also, the bride's smile seemed utterly fake, although he was probably the only one who could tell.Perhaps others would have to know the circumstances of their first and only meeting before they could suspect the falsehood.

This woman, who was rumored to have a large fortune, was so rich that she invested a large sum of money in an extremely absurd plan just to please her grandmother.

She was not attractive at all, just as he had never been attractive to her.

There was absolutely no sincerity here, only false affectation that disgusted him.

It's like she clearly sees him as a piece of chewing gum sticking to the sole of her expensive Italian leather shoes, but she pretends to be kind on the surface.

However, with each other, he didn't have a good impression of her either. He had already experienced her pretentiousness.Someone like her once ruined his home and cheated him out of a lot of money, legally, of course.

No, he would never be attracted to a money-worshipping, vain, posturing woman.Her social status wasn't the only source of criticism. She was one of those lawyers whose smooth talk he couldn't trust.

He felt his blood pressure rise a little with every step she took, and that was all right, James, this marriage wasn't real, it was just a business transaction.Even so, if he hadn't needed the money so urgently, he would have told her to throw that contract into hell.However, with this money, he can concentrate on his studies without having to attend classes during the day and work hard driving a taxi at night.He is almost 30 years old, and his current physical condition can no longer be compared with the boys in his class.

And since he took the job, he should make this lady feel that it was worth the fare.He smiled mischievously from the bottom of his heart, and what harm could it do to crack a joke along the way?