Twisted, Chapter 31
by evianfan84
Chapter 31
“Julian…are you serious?” The thought that her long marriage to T.C. had
been nothing but a fake did not bother her as much as she thought it would.
“I asked Theresa to look into a while ago because I kept having fuzzy memories
of standing with you before a minister.”
“You mean that Elvis guy? That night we drank our way through Las Vegas?”
Eve thought she had made that up as well. She woke up with a cheap plastic
ring on her finger but thought nothing of it. Everyone was surprised to
hear the good upstanding doctor talking about being drunk so casually.
“Yes, dear. He was a real minister. We asked him to keep our marriage hidden
very safely so that my father would never find out. He’s actually standing
right behind us.” Julian nodded to the older minister who was performing
the ceremony.
“It is true, Eve. I was just starting my practice then and, though now
I would never marry people so clearly drunk, I can still remember how lovingly
you looked into your husband’s eyes.”
“NO FRIGGIN WAY!” T.C. lost it then. He jumped up and made his way towards
Julian. He threw off people in his way and his fist seemed almost immediately
to connect with Julian’s face. He could not believe that his life with his
Eve had been a lie. Everything and everyone was lying to him.
“Babe, where the hell did you learn that move?” Simone looked down at her
lover and smiled. They had spent the rest of the service upstairs in Simone’s
room trying out new positions.
“I won’t tell you. I will tell you that I love you so very much.” Paloma
placed herself next to Simone and kissed her cheek.
“I’m exhausted, sweetie.” Simone could feel Paloma’s hand under the sheet
and suddenly could not resist.
They began to make out intensely and forgot about the candles that Simone
had lit for the occasion. They did not even notice Simone’s foot kick one
of them over. It took a minute for them to recognize the heat coming from
something over than their love.
“Sh*T!” Simone yelled when she saw her room in flames. Had she not been
afraid of the death of her and her love, she would have laughed at the irony
of the situation. People had been telling her that she would always burn in
hell and here it was heaven in bed and she was surrounded by flames.
She took up Paloma in her arms, making sure to cover her with the sheets.
Grabbing a robe she quickly dashed out of the room and felt her feet burn.
“I can run, put me down!” Paloma screamed.
“NO! SHUT UP AND JUST ENJOY THE RIDE!” Simone yelled back. She did not
have time for this.
A very scared and barely dressed Simone and Paloma scared the guests below
who just learned of a secret marriage. Before they could question the girls’
attire, they saw they smelled smoke. The fight between Julian and T.C was
forgotten as the audience tried to exit the mansion. Julian and Sheridan
exchanged concern glances, something was not right. This was not supposed
to be happening…yet.
“GET OUT! FIRE!” Simone yelled and ran out of the door. A host of guests
followed them.
Julian made sure that he saw Eve and Sheridan out of the door and stayed
behind to make sure that everyone made it out okay. Him, Luis and Sam stayed
until they were sure the last person left.
“Oh my God!”
It was Sam who found him looking quite not alive. There was no time to
make inquires though because the flames were getting closer.
“SAM! WE HAVE TO GET OUT! COME ON!” Julian saw what caught Sam’s attention
and knew he had to hustle him out of there.
It took days of shifting the wreckage to find Alistair’s body. It was burnt
to a crisp and while Sam was incredibly suspicious, he didn’t test the waters
too hard. He knew what a relief Alistair’s death meant to a lot of people
and was not prepared to waste good tax payer’s money on the death. He knew
it was wrong, but he did the bare minimum and that was it. If he cared enough
about it, he would have looked into Julian and Sheridan’s activities. Especially
since not an hour after the first fire, there was a second one caused by
faulty wiring in the other side of the house. Had an autopsy been possible,
they would have found out that Alistair did not die in the fire. He died
during the commotion with Eve and Julian’s marriage announcement. For weeks,
he had been, unknowingly of course, he had been drinking and smoking poison
supplied to him by his daughter, his ‘wife’ and his son. No one even heard
him die or noticed because of all the excitement. Even if Sam had looked
into Julian and Sheridan, he would not have found anything. Both had been
too careful because the goal was too important.
The last act of Alistair was simple. He revised his will and left the company
over to Julian. In the last months of his life, Julian had made him proud…which
was exactly what he was supposed to think. Julian hadn’t needed the empire
though. Behind his father’s back, he had been building a company for years
but worked behind the scene. To the rest of the world, it looked as if the
company was being run by two women but in reality Julian pulled the strings
while they were co-vice presidents. Upon Alistair’s death, Julian had made
sure that neither he nor his family be poor. Now, he was richer than he
even he liked to think.