Smitten: A Mafia Romance — Chapter 54

"You may kiss the bride."

As the couple's lips joined, sparkles fell and people hooted, the bridal train sprayed flowers from the sprays they held and every other person clapped.

Weddings were usually a beautiful sight, this wedding was also, the decorations, the couples and the guests, everything was perfect and went accordingly.

As Korina looked on at the newly weds, she couldn't help but feel a prick of envy in her heart, of course It wasn't a bad thing, she had tried to convince herself that being envious was human nature, it meant you saw something good, liked it and wished you had it, It was only when it turned to jealousy that it was bad.

She couldn't help but join in the clapping but as she looked at the couple, she felt her envy turn to jealousy and the jealousy turned into hurt on realising that she might never get involved the the blessed union called marriage or have a stable relationship. Tears welled up in her eyes as she clapped knowing she would never feel such joy as she saw in the bride.

Korina never wanted to attend the wedding knowing what it would do to her, knowing that she would feel how she felt each time she saw happy couples.

"Nothing would go wrong, chill." Daniella had said, "Besides, you should be present there, you baked the cake."

It was her cousin's co worker's wedding and she had been given the contract to bake and she wondered how and when it was a must for a baker to attend the wedding.

She had no idea how Daniella had managed to convince her to appear at the wedding. She just saw herself getting dressed and prettied up, everything happened so fast, she delivered the cake and here she was clapping and staring at the couple, green with envy.

"Hello, did you bake that gorgeous cake?" Korina was pulled back to earth by a voice and she looked to see a woman dressed in blue standing in front of her.

"Yes ma'am." Korina smiled her eyes now fixated on the six stepped cake, "Yes I did."

"It's so nice." The woman said, "And I hope it tastes as nice as it looks."

"Of course ma'am, most certainly." Korina beamed.

"I would love to patronize you." The lady said, "My Son's seventh birthday is coming up soon."

"Okay ma'am." Korina dipped her hand in her purse, "Here is my card, give me a call when you are ready."

"I will." She smile retrieving the card from her, "Bye."

She waved the woman away and her attention turned back to the couple, lucky them, she smiled.

"Are you okay?" You have been staring at them for quite sometime now."She looked and saw Anne next to her now, her tight black dress clinging to her every curve, Korina had noticed the way the men ogled at her.

"I am fine babe." She said.

"I know what you are thinking." Anne said taking her friend's hand, "And I know how you feel but don't worry, things would fall in place."

"Sure?" Korina laughed, "When exactly?"

"Might be anytime and unexpectedly, just wait."

"Anne! Korina!" They turned in the direction of the voice and saw Daniella signalling at them to come over to the reception area under the canopy.

"Well." Anne cocked her head towards the direction, "Let's go party."

Jace lander stood there swirling his drink his eyes steadily observing the pretty black woman like a hawk, he also noticed her two friends standing beside her, the blonde haired one looked like a chatter box while the Asian looked more reserved.

"You are never gonna walk up to her are you?" He turned to see his best friend Ade glaring at him.

"Honestly man, you are the most ruthless leader of a mafia organisation, rumors fly around that you eat human babies and drink blood." He whispered and jace chuckled at the last part of his statement, "But you can't walk up to a lady you admire and let your feelings out."

"Would she like me?"

"Of course, it's not like you eat babies for breakfast and drink blood."

"It's not that simple Ade."

"Of course it is." He scoffed, "You are just a ninny."

"Hey, don't test me." Jace warned, "You know how angry and ruthless I can be."

"What would you do?" Ade rolled his eyes, "Shoot me?"

"She's standing right there." Jace sighed, "What do I do?"

"Do a strip tease." His best friend mocked him sipping from his wine.

"What?!"

"Walk up to her idiot!" He smacked his back, "You can do this, you rehearsed it, you knew she was coming, so get your ass over there and say hi."

"What?" Jace asked his face paling, "Now?!."

Ade looked at his friend and wondered if he was actually the same person that killed people without a thought. He collected his wine glass from him, "Now!" He said giving him a push.

"I can't...i..." Jace stammered.

"Now! Go!" Ade gave him another push.

"Fine." He grumbled walking in the direction of the ladies.

"Don't look Korina." Daniella said excitedly, "An angel is walking towards us."

Korina rolled her eyes, "What man did you see now?"

"Wow." Anne exclaimed, "just wow."

Korina looked at where her friends eyes were focused and she saw a tall man in dark blue suit approaching them, he looked unsure of himself and she didn't see anything to wow about him or maybe it was the hurt and envy clouding her vision.

The man stopped in front of them and began to stare, saying nothing.

"Hi." Anne and Daniella greeted him, he just smiled not giving them a reply and then continued to stare at Korina while smiling sheepishly, not a word came from his mouth.

What a creep, Korina managed to smile at him, seconds passed and he still stared without saying a word to them and then a frown appeared on his first before he turned and left.

Ade had every reason to believe that Jace was the biggest idiot on planet earth and probably other planets.

"You said absolutely nothing." He palmed his face.

"I let my eyes do the talking, she would definitely know I like her now." Jace felt stupid as he heard the words that came out of his own mouth.

"You sound really dumb right now and to think you run many businesses and a mafia."

"Don't make me shoot you." He growled.

"Yea, you can shoot me but not come clean with a girl about your feelings, bravo!"

"What do I do now?"

"You are going back there and you would introduce yourself, you would say words that actually make sense."

"I am not going back there man."

"And why not?"

"Cause I ain't ready."

"Yes you are and you will."

"As your boss, you have no right to tell me what to do, I am not going there."

But Jace lander found himself in front of Korina and her friends sooner than he expected with his bestfriend paces behind him.

Korina looked at the man and his friend who had a frown on his face, what does he even want? She wondered if he would say something this time around and then the man spoke.

"H...i..hi..." He stuttered as he brought forth his hand, "My name is Jace lander and I wanna marry you, please say yes."