MARRIED TO DECEPTION

Chapter Eight

Logan sat in the back, a chair closest to the end of the church, directly in front of the big door that led to the large compound of the church.

The church was huge, painted white on the inside, with gold railings, and beautiful realistic paintings of Jesus, the disciples and Mary.

The chair on which Logan was seated was painted gold too, with gold armrest. Almost all the chairs were.

But this wasn't what was on Logan's mind as he sat there. Directly in his line of vision, some chairs away from where he was seated sat Ava, she looked like she was trying to hide while speaking and concentrating intently on her phone.

He had thought of walking up to her but changed his mind. He didn't mean to, but soon he was staring at the way her dark brown hair was packed into a neat bun, some hair falling down by the side, neatly lined edges that added to her beauty.

He had seen her eyes when she had glanced at him, it had been for a short while, but he couldn't help loving them immediately.

She was wearing a long red wedding dress that highlighted her hair, and complimented her skin.

Logan ran a hand down his face, what was he doing, why was he checking out a woman that was his cousin's wife, he wasn't normally attracted to women, but he couldn't understand why he couldn't take his eyes off Ava.

He needed to get up, he needed to find Ethan, know the next event for the day, help Ethan if he needed him, but he couldn't. He felt he was stuck to the seat he was in by the beauty he couldn't stop staring at.

Ava dropped her phone beside her stretching her fingers, curling her toes to release them from how stiff it was starting to feel.

She had just called her manager and everybody in her company, telling them how things were going to be. She didn't know when she was going to be able to make it to Asheville in a while and she didn't want her workers thinking she had abandoned her dreams.

She felt relieved that things were going to be and have been running smoothly even in her absence. Thanks to her Manager and P.A.

She turned around quickly, noticing eyes on her, locking eyes with Logan as she did so. She was torn between smiling at him or frowning. Deciding to smile instead.

Ethan and everybody in the Davenport family thought she was so excited and happy to be getting Married to Ethan. Frowning would only ruin everything.

Logan felt his heart stop for a moment when Ava smiled at him, he hadn't realized that she had turned back until she had smiled.

Her already beautiful face lighted up in the most amazing way, her red painted lips lifted up slightly to show beautiful aligned teeth.

He turned away quickly, lowering his head, trying to focus his mind on something else.

He looked around the church noticing there was no one else in the church except him and Ava.

He looked back at her hoping she hadn't noticed him struggling. He frowned, giving her a disgusted look, then stood up to leave.

Ava shook her head, wondering why they had all decided to be mean to her, sighing sadly, she stood up from the position she was, going in search of Camilla.

Ava is barely halfway through the door when she falls flat down with her face to the ground. She feels her head begin to throb as soon as she stands up.

She soon notices her head throbbing wasn't the only thing she needed to be worried about as she feels the blood running down her nose to her mouth.

She also feels a sharp pain on her forehead and after further investigations, she realizes that she was also bleeding there.

She felt the tears in her eyes again. Not knowing if she should let it out or keep it in.

Keeping it in caused more pain for her as she felt the tears gather at the back of her throat, adding to the throbbing and her head felt like it was going to burst at any moment.

She changes her mind on looking for Camilla and decides to look for the toilet instead to wash out the blood that was starting to ruin her makeup, and find privacy to let out the tears that were threatening to spill any moment.

Finding the toilet was so hard as she didn't know the exact location as to where it was coupled with the fact that she was trying so hard to hide the fact that she was bleeding and still see through the blood that was starting to cover her eyes.

Breathing was also difficult as she was trying so hard to breathe without taking the blood that was dripping back in so as not to let it get to her brain.

She takes short breaks in between her journey to the toilet wondering why the toilet was so far after she had finally seen a sign that showed the direction to the toilet. Getting there and finding out that she had somehow taken the wrong route, she was starting to feel very weak and tired, wondering if it had to do with the fact that she was still losing blood and her head was still throbbing.

She finally finds the toilet, letting herself in, locking the main door to the whole toilet, because she didn't want anybody walking in on her when she was pouring out her heart, but changes her mind, deciding she wasn't going to care what they thought.

Camilla looked round the area realizing she hadn't seen Ava since she got there, Realizing that she wasn't even sure if Ava had left the church.

After checking all the areas she could think of in the reception area and not seeing Ava, she decides to go back to church, hoping to find her

The journey to the church wasn't long considering the fact that they were at a walking proximity and she had taken her car.

After searching the whole church area and not seeing Ava, she starts to get worried.

She decides to check the toilet, hoping to find her there and it being the only place she hadn't checked.

She was almost out of breath when she got to the toilet and had contemplated going back so many times, but decided against it.

She lets herself in, shouting Ava's name at the same time.

And right there, in the toilet, on the floor, lay Ava, passed out, with blood coming out from her nose, mouth and forehead.