29- A woman like me

looking forward to all night, with a little alcohol in his blood he hoped to better withstand the wedding.

He turned with disinterest to where his best friend pointed, he was in no mood for their games, especially when he had discovered that Helena was at the wedding, as if she was a stone in his shoe, remembering her at every turn. It seemed like fate wanted to torture him by screaming at him that he was making a grave mistake, but the worst part of the night was seeing his idiot brother, whom he hadn't invited to the wedding but whom Katlyn had taken the trouble to send him an invitation, talking to his secretary. No, not talking, he had been flirting very very close to her.

The damn thing had sent him one of those stupid childish smiles he was so fond of doing when he got something he had become infatuated with, and this time that something was Helena, but she wasn't just another object in his strange collection he knew he kept at home and that unnerved him.

He expected to run into anything when he turned on the oak bar stool. Some of Katlyn's friends dancing and flirting with some business acquaintance, anything, because he knew Erik loved firsts. But he hadn't expected, from the depths of his being, to find Helena out of her waitress clothes and dancing very, very close to her brother.

-Who is that pretty girl? Is she a friend of your wife's?" asked Erik but he received no answer, because Sebastian was absorbed in his murderous thoughts towards his brother and blinded by jealousy.

Helena was wearing a delicate white gauze dress, which fell over her slender body like a cascade of clouds in many folds that floated majestically as the young woman spun in circles. It was a simple piece, but one that the redhead knew how to wear with elegance, with sleeves down to her wrists, but loose as pigeon wings and tight at the part of her waist, but without cleavage, to leave her bare skin only to the imagination of whoever admired her.

She looked like the bride of the party, or at least Sebastian couldn't help but think so as he watched her shine on the runway with her own light.

--What am I doing?" exclaimed Helena as she danced gracefully, "I'm going to get fired from my job!

Alan spun her around and then grabbed her hands and pulled her close to him again.

-If they try to fire you, I'm going to buy the company so they can't do it," Alan said with a gallant smile.

Helena smiled amused and let herself be carried away by her knight's steps, she really felt like a princess. Just a few days ago she had sworn never to wear a party dress again, but this one was different, as if Alan knew she didn't want to wear revealing clothes. In this dress she felt safe, as it kept away the depraved looks she feared to provoke.

-By the way, thank you for the dress, although I don't think the color is very appropriate- She whispered embarrassed and looking paranoid all around, Katlyn had not discovered her yet, but it wouldn't be long before that would happen.

-Don't worry, Katlyn is not white, I don't think she'll mind.

"Why do I feel like you don't know her at all?" he wanted to say out loud, but he swallowed it down, he just nodded smiling and kept turning as many times as Alan made her turn, then quickly brought her against his chest, he really was a good dancer.

-I'm going to take this as a first date," the young seducer murmured.

Helena smiled, but said nothing. He seemed like a nice guy, he was polite and she didn't notice any bad intentions in him, even so she didn't feel ready to have any kind of relationship with anyone. She didn't deny about the date, she didn't want to disappoint him, and besides she wanted to enjoy the party because she knew that after 12 o'clock she would have to go back to being the commoner she had always been.

Katlyn lifted her pompous and uncomfortable dress to her knees and walked towards Sebastian, she had lost him for a moment, but that wouldn't happen again, she wanted him near him all night, for everyone to see how happy they were and what a beautiful couple they made. They couldn't wait to see the cover of Europe's most famous fashion magazine with a picture of them with the headline "The most beautiful bride and groom in the world!"

-Sebi!" she squealed, but with the music, neither her husband nor her idiot friend heard her. She walked at a faster pace, as much as she could in her uncomfortable heels and with an annoyed expression plastered on her face.

"What was so interesting that he wasn't paying attention to his almost-wife?"

Katlyn turned to where they were looking without breaking stride and nearly fell flat on her face on the floor at the sight of Sebastian's brother dancing with a mysterious woman with hair like fire and a damn white dress that he had forbidden women to wear, because no one would take the spotlight away from him on his day.

When the woman turned for a millisecond towards the blonde, as her husband's younger brother made her turn around, she discovered the nasty face of the woman who wouldn't leave her man alone and was making his life miserable. That damned bitch he had for a secretary had crashed his wedding, put on a wedding dress and now she was all smiles dancing with her brother-in-law as if she had some right.

-She screamed and dug her heels into the marble in attack position, about to pounce on Helena, who upon seeing the bride a few feet away nailing her snake eyes to her stopped dancing and almost hid behind Alan.

Sebastian noticed this and together with Erik turned the other way, finding the blonde discovering Helena at her wedding. The CEO quickly got up from his seat, like a child who had been discovered playing a prank.

-What's going on? What did I miss?" asked Erik who had no idea what was going on but watched the scene as if it were his favorite three o'clock soap opera.

-Helena, you'd better go to the terrace, wait for me there," ordered Alan.

The redhead didn't hesitate for a second to flee to the balcony when she saw the blonde walking towards her with the intention of murdering her in front of everyone.

-What is that bitch doing at my wedding Alan," she shouted almost in tears, "She wants to ruin my day!

Sebastian grabbed Katlyn by the shoulder and pulled her to him, fixing his furious gaze on his younger brother, who still had that stupid expression of victory on his face.

-I'm sorry Katlyn, I didn't know you had problems with Helena- he replied with an uncomfortable pout- I had taken the audacity to bring her to your wedding as my guest.

Katlyn wiped away her mascara stained tears and looked at Alan, who felt his heart pounding as he felt those green eyes he loved so much looking at him alone.

-Get rid of her Alan, before I grab her by the hair myself," she ordered.

The blonde turned and stormed out of the scene. Before following his wife, Sebastian grabbed his brother's arm and pulled him towards him. The youngest Aller still had his smirk on his face when the CEO whispered threateningly.

-I don't know what you're up to, but if you hurt Helena, I swear I'll forget we're brothers," he said forcefully and left behind the bride.

Helena watched the whole scene mute for her and saw how Alan gave her a wet dog look before he went somewhere else and not to the balcony as he had promised.

She decided to stay there and wait for him to come back as a caged animal, because she didn't dare to go out, she was afraid that Katlyn would beat her to a pulp, she had no doubt that the blonde would do that to her.

After a while that seemed like an eternity Alan peeked out from the balcony door.

-We're leaving," he said and Helena nodded, relieved that the young man had gotten her out of the place safe and sound.

When they returned to the living room, everything was dark and the screen had been put back on.

-This is a video I made for my love Sebastian, I hope you like it.

Everyone clapped excitedly and the screen lit up illuminating Helena's back, who was rushing out of the room walking behind Alan. She was about to set foot outside the venue when she heard an "Ohhh" from the entire audience at something on the screen.

Her curiosity got the better of her and she turned around wishing she hadn't....