Just Before My Wedding: Trapped By My Ruthless Boss novel Chapter 120

Chapter 120

KISAREL

“Your wedding with Jace will only be over my dead body…“.

Oceans‘ words kept moving through my head as I walked back to the dining room.

He didn’t say: ‘I don’t want you to marry him.‘

Neither did he say: ‘Please don’t.‘

It hadn’t even sounded like one of his usual arrogant commands that made me want to scream and melt at the same time.

‘Over my dead body…

He had meant it.

I saw it in his eyes. And that was the part I could not seem to push away.

Oceans had looked damaged in a way I had never seen before, as if something inside him had finally stopped pretending to be controlled. He looked like a man who had stopped calculating the cost and would break every rule, every contract, and every person standing between him and what he wanted.

And what he wanted was me. And it scared me so badly my fingers trembled as I reached the dining room door.

I pressed my lips together before I entered, terrified they looked swollen from the kiss.

Jace saw me first and stood halfway from his chair immediately. “Arel. Are you okay? How do

you

feel?”

“Yes. Yes, I’m fine,” I said, and even I heard how rushed it sounded.

His eyes moved over my face, then to my hair, then briefly to my mouth.

My heart stumbled.

I looked away before he could study me too closely.

“Where is Oceans?” Jace asked, and my whole body reacted instantly.

I turned back to him too quickly. “What?”

His brows pulled together slightly. “Oceans. He stepped out too.”

Wait… What did Oceans tell them at the table when he left? Had he told them he was coming to look for me? Why was Jace asking me about him?

“I… Did he…” I swallowed. “I think I saw him answering a call or something. I’m not sure.” I lied.

Jace held my gaze for a moment, before his expression softened immediately.

“Oh. He smiled gently. “Right.”

I hated how relieved I felt when he looked away.

I sat down carefully, folding any left hand into my lap so I wouldn’t have to look at the ring,

Then Oceans stepped back into the dining room, and the atmosphere changed again.

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Goosebumps broke across my arms, and the air seemed to shift around the door. I kept my eyes on the plate in front of me but every part of me tracked him as he walked back to his seat.

Moonie looked up immediately. “Babe, where did you go?”

“Call,” he said.

Jace’s hand moved over mine beneath the table.

I almost pulled away but thank God I didn’t.

Across from me, I felt Oceans go still.

God, I felt it like a hand around my throat.

Before the silence and tension could swallow me whole, Uncle Fred cleared his throat and tapped his fingers lightly against his wineglass.

“Now that everyone is settled,” he said, smiling around the table, “there’s something your aunt and I wanted to discuss.”

My stomach tightened as Aunt Freda smiled softly at me.

Uncle Fred leaned back in his chair. “Since both weddings are approaching, it makes sense that we handle some family matters together.”

My eyes flicked toward Oceans before I could stop myself.

Thank God, he was watching Fred now, not me.

Fred turned his attention to me, and his smile deepened.

“After your hospital scare, your aunt and I spoke with Jace.”

Jace’s thumb moved slowly over the back of my hand.

“Six weeks feels unnecessarily far for your wedding,” Uncle Fred continued. “Especially with everything that has happened. Good thing invitations haven’t been sent out yet. The venue had an opening for an earlier date, and we took it.”

For a second, I didn’t understand the words.

They entered my ears separately. Venue. Opening. Earlier date. Took it.

Then they arranged themselves into meaning, and my stomach turned cold.

“What?” I whispered.

Aunt Freda reached across the table with a soft expression. “Sweetheart, don’t look like that. Marriage is a blessing”

I stared at her.

“Aunt Freda…”

“Jace has been so worried about you,” she continued gently. “We all have. After the hospital, it became clear that waiting and waiting while plans hang over your head is not good for you. Once you are married, he can take care of you properly.”

Take care of me.

The words made the room tilt a little as I turned to Jace.

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He was already watching me with that worried, innocent face that had want to understand just yet.

“You knew?” I asked.

His hand tightened over mine. “Arel-”

You

started making my chest feel tight for reasons I did i

“You knew they were changing the date?” I let out a weak scoff, “And

you

told me?”

His brows pulled together. “It wasn’t like that.”

“You see me every day.” My voice was quiet, but it shook. “Tin staying in your house. You had all the time to tell me

I wanted to,” he said quickly. “I just…. I didn’t want to stress you. You were recovering.”

“So, you discussed my wedding without me because I was recovering?”

There was silence. The only thing I could hear was the rhythmic taps of Oceans‘ finger on the table.

He had not moved an inch or spoken a word yet. But the silence around him had changed. It was no longer ordinary restraint. It was the kind of quiet that came before something broke.

When I finally looked at him, his face was way too calm. His eyes were on Jace, and there was anger in them, but it was buried so deep it looked almost neutral.

I could feel him holding himself together by threads, and I was terrified of what would happen when they snapped.

Uncle Fred cleared his throat. “Kisarel, this is not punishment. It’s love. You’ve had too much uncertainty lately. A home, a

that is one stability you need right now.” husband, family around

you

I let the silence sit for a moment, disbelief carving a hole

in my chest,

as I asked, “When?”

I wanted them to humor me. And they actually did. Because the words that came out of my uncle’s mouth, with a bright smile accompanying them, sounded too unbelievable to be true.

“In two weeks from now.”

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