Chapter One. The beginning of the end

TOLULOPE'S POV

I woke up to the sound of my alarm like every other day, only that today was different. This was not just any other day, this was the eve of my wedding day. Growing up, I had always looked forward to the day I would be a bride, dressed elegantly and walking down the aisle with my arms enclosed in that of my father's. With smiles radiating on my face and me being the center of attention. I had always felt I was going to be an happy bride but as the D-day drew closer, there was a sense of foreboding that came with it. I couldn't pin point what the problem was, I was no doubt getting married to the love of my life in the person of Lade Jacobs. He was sweet to me and every member of my family and he was the picture perfect kind of man. The previous weeks I had discarded the foreboding feelings and attributed it to the fact that my birth mother was not going to go through the process with me. She had died immediately I was born and so I had never met her, but in her place I had a loving step mother and an half sister who was just four years younger than I was.

I was the apple of my father's eyes, and heiress to his empire and here I was finally getting married and also having my destination wedding in France as I had always wanted . I was supposed to be excited as this was something I had looked forward to for as far as I could remember but that was not the case. I had explained the situation to my half sister kemi who suggested that I went away for a bit to calm my head before the wedding, hence she had arranged a three hour get away for me and my husband to be on the island of Martinique. In her words we could sneak out and sneak back in before we could be whisked away for the events of the night. Seeing it as such a wonderful idea, I had agreed without thinking twice about it.

I couldn't wait for what the day had in store for me, having the love of my life with me on an island away from the wedding stress was definitely going to be sotthing. I hurriedly got dressed in my excitement, and headed to where I was supposed to meet up with Lade.

On getting there though I was surprised to see him with my kemi, with both of them talking in hushed tones. I cleared my throat to let them know of my arrival and also that we could leave. I was surprised when kemi said she was going to go with us since she was the only one who knew the directions to the venue. Although it tampered with my plans of being alone with Lade, I could see reason in what she said.

The island of Martinique was as beautiful as kemi had earlier described and nothing less and I was really having fun until something I never would have imagined in a million years happened...