The Abandoned Bride

Tyler was taken aback. He surely didn’t expected me to act like that. He looked confused for a moment before shaking his head.

“What’s wrong? This is unbelievable,” Tyler mumbled, looking at me with his eyes widened. “You weren’t friendly with Amber before but now you’re smiling at her,” he continued.

I jokingly slapped his arm. “Oh! My apologies. That’s because I thought the two of you had an affair. I doubted your relationship, but now I’m fine. You proposed to me instead of Amber so I’m relieved. There’s nothing to be afraid of anymore,” I explained.

Tyler turned pale for a second before agreeing with me. “Is that so? I’m glad you no longer doubt me,” he said.

The three of us headed to my friends and I introduced Tyler to everyone. I also mentioned Amber and made it clear that she’s just like a sister to Tyler. The way Amber’s expression became uncomfortable made me smile in secret.

After a brief yet warm introduction, I urged Tyler to join my father’s business partners so he could be familiar with them. Tyler didn’t hesitate and brought drinks to the group of men talking about business, leaving Amber and I with my friends.

“Let’s go, Amber. I’ll introduce you to other guests,” I said, holding her hand.

Amber tried to pull away but I tightened my grip while smiling. She was about to retort when she noticed Tyler was looking at us. Amber wanted to impress Tyler so as long as he was around and there were other people watching, she couldn’t do anything but to pretend to be kind. She wanted people to praise and saw her in a good light.

Meanwhile, Cassy came and excused me from the group. Amber wanted to come along but before she could say anything, Cassy already dragged me away from the table.

“How are you? I cannot believe you managed to pretend like nothing happened! That’s brilliant though,” Cassy said, impressed.

“I have to. I don’t want them to win this,” I said while looking at the other girls who started talking and laughing, excluding Amber from the group after I left.

The girls continued talking loudly, making sure Amber could hear them.

“Lucky, isn’t she? If not for Sabrina, I wouldn’t even associate myself with the likes of her.”

“Right. I heard she’s an amateur actress. Well, maybe she could be an extra with the face she have.”

“I still think it’s shameless to cling onto someone who’s in relationship. Ugh! I hate people like her.”

“Me too. I hope she realized how kind Sabrina is to let her tag along on this high-class event.”

The laughter continued, completely making Amber an outcast. Julia was leading the other girls after I told her what happened. She was also well-known in high-society’s circle so it wasn’t a problem for her to influence others. Julia agreed to my plan when shew knew about Tyler and Amber’s affair.

“They’re all expert at this. Let’s keep this up,” Cassy cheered and handed me a glass of wine.

I found myself enjoying the rich wine flavor when all of a sudden, someone screamed. Turning my head to where the voice came from, my suspicion was confirmed.

Amber glared at Eve, one of my friends, who kept apologizing to her.

Eve was the quiet type. She wasn’t the kind who would start making a scene either. But looking at them, it seemed that Eve was holding a wine when she bumped into Amber, resulting to the latter’s dress to get red stain.

“Amber will kill Eve,” I mumbled, knowing that Amber paid an expensive fee to rent the dress she was wearing.

“I’m sorry for what happened to your dress. I didn’t mean to bump into you and splash my wine,” Eve said quietly. She looked worried when everybody started to look at their direction to check what happened.

“Sorry? Will your sorry bring back this expensive dress? You should have watched where you’re going!” Amber shrieked. Her eyeballs almost jumped off their sockets. She could no longer control her irritation when Eve remained quiet despite everything she told her.

The whispers continued around them and Amber noticed that she was put in a bad light for yelling at Eve.

Tyler who saw what was happening tried to rush to Amber’s side when Eve’s boyfriend stopped him.