Bon-Hwa Rohan Fernando was nicknamed ‘Gravity’ by his friends and mates. He was nicknamed ‘Acada’ by his family. He was like the wind; impossible to trap, dangerous to offend, difficult to predict. He was very arrogant and full of himself.
He was tall, handsome, cold and dashing. The domineering aura round him made people breathless when they came close. He was the grandson of the great Bon-Hwa Fernando.
The Fernando family has ruled the business sector in Country Z for many generations.
The Bon-Hwa Fernando Group was the number one in the country when it comes to money. And also ranked top in the world business ranking, courtesy of Rohan Fernando.
The group touched all sectors of the economy; banking, entertainment, health, electronics, hospitality management such as hotels, etc.
Rohan was a shrewd businessman, a dare-devil investor, very calculative and intelligent.
He was not only powerful because of his money, wealth, family but he also works with the government which gave him advantage over so many of his contemporaries. He works as a volunteer ghost FBI officer.
If you prove too stubborn from the overt world, he will deal with you from the covert world. When he was a little younger, he often paints the city of ‘k’ red with his friends. The police and other law enforcement officers knew him very well and were all his friends.
He was a philanthropist, generous to a fault. Bring one hundred persons for an interview, seventy persons would profess to love him, while thirty persons would profess to hate him.
But he was not perfect, just like no man is perfect, every man has his own weakness. He had a glaring weakness ‘women.’
Today was the day of his marriage ceremony; the wedding was taking place at the largest cathedra in K city.
He was not a faithful member of the church, but his mother was. When his mother died in a ghastly motor accident two years ago alongside his father, after the burial, he had gone back to rebuild the cathedra into a modern style as an appreciation to the church.
After rebuilding the church, he became a celebrated non dedicated member of the church.
That he came to hold his wedding in the church was not only because the members of the congregation had come to love him, but because he had promised his mother to get married in her church.
Otherwise, he would have held the wedding in his own seven- star hotel; ‘Hotel De Tycoon.’ But the wedding reception would be taking place in the said hotel.
All his friends, acquaintances, well-wishers, Club members, business partners, both within and without the country and workers in his company would have all love to congregate at Hotel De Tycoon for the continuation of the ceremony.
But only few of them were invited, basically, members of his club.
Three months ago, something happened that made him decided to keep the wedding as low key as possible. Thereby restricting attendance to the wedding as much as possible.
The wedding ceremony was announced just four days ago, he had purposely delayed the announcement because of the controversial nature of his life.
He was the most eligible bachelor in K city, but he was very controversial; especially in his relationship with women. And he had stepped on many feet because of this.
When he delayed the announcement, he had hoped that only few persons would be aware and come.
He was still embarrassed because of the what happened to him three months ago. It was too embarrassing. If not that he had made a promise to his dead mother, about having a wedding, he would not have had the wedding in the first place. He would simply get a marriage certificate.
If not because the Club he belonged to ‘Big Brothers Club’ (BBC) has a policy, which made it mandatory ‘that every member of the club who wants to get married must conducted a wedding ceremony otherwise, the member loses his entitlements as a newly married member of the club.’
If not, he would have avoided the whole ceremony stuff and obtain a marriage certificate and take his bride home.
But these reasons, and more, made him decided to do the ceremony; fulfilling his promise to his late mother and collecting his entitlements from his club.
If only he knew that the wedding ceremony would have brought him another car load of embarrassment and disaster, he would not have held the ceremony.
But he had no idea.
He had an intuition that something was going to go wrong, and had delayed the announcement of the wedding, and had also refused his club’s offer to organize a bachelor’s night for him.
He had even dreamt and saw himself crying during the wedding, but his dreams have never come true, so he was not perturbed because of the dream, but the feelings of impending ignominy were there. He therefore, wanted to avoid as much publicity as possible.
He had even gone to the extent of placing restrictions on the attendance to the reception.
Only those who are invited would be allowed into the ‘hotel reception during the ceremony.’
But for the church, he had no control. The church was the largest church in the whole city, and his mother was very faithful, and a great financier of the church during her life time, having been the wife of a billionaire.
And when the members of the congregation heard of the wedding ceremony of Mrs. Julia Bon-Hwa Fernando’ son, they all were willing to attend the wedding ceremony despite the short notice.
They came to the wedding not because of the young man who hardly come to church, but because of his mother, also maybe because he had rebuilt their church to the latest style.
If Rohan Fernando had not been born into a power financial dynasty, he would have been completely destroyed because of the scandal of three months ago. But his family has maintained its financial position for a considerable time in K city in particular and Z country in general starting from his great-grandfather; Bon-Hwa.But right now under the leadership of Rohan, the business has been making waves overseas.The scandal of three months ago was enough to pull an ordinary person to the dust. But the Fernando businesses were too established to be pulled down, no matter what happened.The scandal did not affect the Fernando businesses, it only brought Rohan personal shame and embarrassment.This morning, the cathedral was parked to the brim with people.He had avoided all protocols and had come to the wedding with only three cars. He had his bride with him in one car, the best man and bride’s maid and the bodyguar
“Do you think that the issue of your having a child for him is strong enough to stop this marriage? as a matter of fact, this marriage will go on, then after the marriage, you two can ratify the issue through paternity test.” he concluded. This was final. The priest wanted the girl to stay in the church office till after the marriage, but Rohan refused. “the girl must be in police custody until after the wedding.” On the insistence of Rohan, the girl was taken away by the police. She sure will be tortured at the police custody, that would make her to tell the truth. Rohan was sure of that. The priest asked “where is the bride? Can we go back to the hall for the continuation of the wedding?” It was high time to continue the wedding, the enemies thought that the wedding will not continue. But unfortunately for them, the priest, though old was very resolute, he couldn’t just cancel the wedding on a flimsy excuse of having a child for the groom. Many young people these days, do have
When it became apparent that the bride is not coming back today, the priest suggested postponement of the marriage.“Mr. Bon-Hwa would it be okay for you if the marriage is postponed till your bride comes back?”The priest of God asked in his priestly voice.“With due respect sir, I can’t ever postpone the marriage!” Rohan roared like a lion. Even though he was trying to maintain some level of respect to the man of God.Two international catering companies had been hired to cook; one group was to cater for the stomach of those who would come to the church, while the other group was to cater for those who would come to the reception at Hotel De Tycoon.While the bride was being awaited, Rohan ordered the food to be served to everyone. Everyone in the church was busy eating and drinking while the couple was yet to be joined.Mr. Chin Elvis reiterated what the priest
That was when Jane ; Elvis present wife and the bride’s mother remembered that she had seen someone who looks like Chin Cho, when she was looking for her daughter. But she had shown no interest in the girl, but now maybe the girl could be of help. “Elvis, I saw Chin Cho, come and force her to take her sister’s place for the main time. We need her to save the situation now.” Chin Mae Elvis could not believe his ears; Chin Cho was in this wedding? What could have forced her to be here in this wedding. While wondering these things in his mind, he followed his wife to where she had seen Chin Cho. And he tapped Chin Cho on the shoulder. Chin Cho turned slowly and saw her father. She looked at him without any expression. “Can we talk in a quieter place Cho” her father said softly to her. Chin Cho followed her father to a quieter place inside one of the empty rooms in the church. Chin Mae Elvis was at lost on how to start the conversation. Father and daughter relationship was very s
She left them in that room and rounded a corner. She was not familiar with the church building, she seems to have entered a wrong corner and heard voices. “If Elvis fails to produce his daughter in the next 10 minutes, I will gun him down and dare the consequences.” She heard a venomous voice and approaching footsteps. She hid herself at a corner and watched, two men passed by her, it was Rohan and Dan. She did not know them, but from what they were saying, she knew it was the groom and his man. She stood dead on her feet, she could not believe it. So Elvis and Jane were telling the truth when they said that the man can kill at will and nobody will ask him questions. Was this the type man Elvis and Jane choose to give their daughter in marriage? That was too bad. She had better go and inform Elvis to run for his dear life. If Elvis dies, her mother; Ae-Cha may not survive the shock and may also die and she would be an orphan like her mother was. No! for the sake of her mother, El
While she was looking at the man, the man was also looking at her. they seem to have entered into an unannounced staring competition. Chin Cho was the first to shift her gaze, out of shyness. But the man kept looking at her. He looked at the girl for a very long time before looking at Elvis questionly with a frown. Elvis was shaking all over “she is my second daughter, though from another mother. She can take the place of her sister till further notice.” There was no response from him. The silence was overwhelming; no one dare says anything again out of fear. The man was still holding his gun in his hand, who knows what is on his mind. The people were wondering. But he has even forgotten that he was holding a gun in his hand. Rohan looked at the girl again for a very long time. The people in the church office thought that he was contemplating if to accept the girl or to say no. No! he was actually assessing the girl and comparing her with her sister. The girl was the most beau
Chin Cho on her own part was by now thinking that she had never seen a man so enchanting like this one. She had heard that her half-sister was getting married to super-rich man, she had never anticipated him to be so handsome as well. As she had closely looked at him in a relaxed manner, she found out that he had a perfect figure comparable to those of super models in the cover of magazines. His body shape lines were tight, his eyes were now clear, cold and deep blue. His features were such that could make any woman scream. Even in his discomfort, he had a noble and powerful air about him. Chin-Sun’s mother; Jane was hoping against hope that the young man would refuse Chin Cho, and then the wedding would be postponed until her daughter comes back. Chin Cho herself was also hoping that the man would say no to her and she would raise her two hands and praised the God of heaven. It would not be her fault anymore and her father would still have to pay her mother’s medical bill. But El
“Miss Chin do you take Mr. Bon-Hwa to be your lawfully wedded husband; forsaking all others and cleaving to him in health, or in sickness, in poverty or in riches, till death do you part?” “yes I do”. She finally replied not having an alternative. ‘the groom and bride may exchange rings” After the exchange of rings, the priest said again. “the groom may you please kiss your bride.” ‘What? kiss!?’ Chin Cho did not anticipate this part of the joining. The kiss was really a bother to Chin Cho, but to Rohan who had kissed many lips, it meant nothing. Although this was not her first kiss, Boe Ho had kissed her several times, but that was the much far she had gone in her relationship with the opposite sex. But now a kiss from a stranger, a man she did not know or loved? Rohan bent down, since Chin Cho was only reaching his chest, holding her chin with his two palms, he kissed her li