The Billionaire's Unauthentic Daughter ✔

C H A P T E R 4 8

❝My lonely place is everywhere you aren't.❞

Julie's POV

The wedding was lovely. I was so happy for Brian and Brooke even though I didn't know them much. Their wedding was like a fairytale. Although I didn't believe such kind of thing existed in real life, but looking at Brooke and Brian made me think that they were an exception.

After the reception, Brian and Brooke set off for their honeymoon. The bouquet was caught by Heather and the garter by Ethan. It was so surprising and everyone was sure that they would be the next couple to get married soon.

Ethan was a little weird at the reception though. Whenever I went to talk to him, he was always busy talking to others. Even when I caught him alone, at the sight of me he'd become panicked and dodge me by going in the opposite direction and getting someone to talk to him.

I didn't know what was up with him.

At the time of the dance he literally danced with every woman in the hall except me. It was like he was purposefully avoiding me. I didn't understand why he was doing this. I really wanted to dance with him once but he never give me the chance to. He even danced with Olivia but not me.

So many men asked me to dance with them, even Vince. I knew that if I refused to dance with him he would make a scene and nag me the whole night so I didn't have a choice. I saw Ethan giving Vince a cold glare but Vince was too busy looking at me to notice him.

I knew that Ethan didn't like me dancing with him.

The night ended with him and Heather exiting the reception hall before anyone else after congratulating the newlyweds and I was left disappointed. Weren't we friends? Why would he totally ignore me like that?

As expected, at the end of the reception party, Olivia was wasted. I didn't want to handle a drunk Olivia and so an equally drunk Tristan offered to be with her and to deposit her in her room when they reached. I ordered the driver to take the two home because I didn't know where Tristan lived. Olivia looked really sleepy so I deemed it safe to send her with Tristan because in her state I highly doubted she'd say anything about our secret to Tristan.

I stayed back for a while to click pictures with the married couple and to congratulate them again after which I decided to call it a night.

All I could think of during the ride back to the mansion was Ethan and his odd behavior.

But as I thought about it a lot, I came up with a reason. Maybe Juliet and Ethan's rivalry was known to the media and he didn't have an intention to clear things up for them. Because I bet this would have been huge and maybe he just didn't want the limelight to be off of Brooke and Brian because it was their long awaited special day.

I waved it off after that. Of course this would be the reason. There was no other way he'd be like this. I was just overthinking which was never good.

When I went to see Olivia the next day, the first thing I noticed was that she looked exhausted even though she slept for more than twelve hours. Her hair was messy and a lot of tangles were visible. But before I could talk to her, she shut the door on my face.

***

Right after the wedding it was exam season for me. I had to work extra hard during those days. I also had to work extra hard to keep my secret, a secret. It was decided that Heather or Amelia would pick me up from the mansion whenever I had an exam and would drive me to college under the excuse of hanging out.