All The Wrong Reason

All The Wrong Reason episode 34

🌾ALL THE WRONG REASONS🌾
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Adrienne quickly spun around and found herself staring
at a pair of crystal blue eyes. She blinked back at him, all
the muscles and bones in her body froze, including her
voice.

He looked as handsome as ever, dressed in a black
tux. His hair was still a little disheveled but it only added to
the charm of his devilishly handsome face. His eyes though,
weren’t dancing, like they used to. They had a shadow of
circles under them, as if he hadn’t been sleeping properly in
days.
Adrienne realized that she hadn’t been breathing in a
long time. She closed her eyes for a moment, thinking for
sure that he would disappear once she opened her eyes. But
when she did, he was still there, looking back at her
curiously.

“Justin
” she whispered.
He didn’t speak. He looked as dumbfounded as she
was. Then he took a deep breath and instead of uttering a
word, he reached to pull her wa-ist and in a second, he
crushed her to his arms and his l-ips devoured hers into one
hungry k-ss.
Adrienne didn’t think. Her arms wound around his
neck and she k-ssed him with the same intensity as he was
k-ssing her. She poured all her love in that k-ss. She knew
that she promised to let him go, but right now, she felt that
after suffering for weeks, and yearning to feel his existence
again, she deserved this moment of insanity
this stolen
piece of heaven.

When the k-ss ended, they were both breathless. She
was sure her dress was slightly crumpled, her hair probably disheveled and her makeup could be ruined, but she didn’t
care. Right now, all that mattered was this moment, and this
man in front of her.
He leaned his forehead against hers. “Honey
.” he
whispered in a hoarse voice.
“Justin
what are you doing here?”
“What are you doing here?” he asked. “I thought you
were in New York.”
She pulled away from him, to look into his eyes.

“Justin
” she started. She didn’t even know where to begin
telling him what happened to her while they were apart.
“Something
big happened to me. I found out that my mom
wasn’t really my mom. She’s my stepmom. And now
I
found my real Mom. She lived here in Paris all throughout
these years. I’ve been living with my new family for two
weeks. I have a stepdad and a brother. Kim is not my sister,
Justin!”
She knew they didn’t have a lot of time to talk. Justin
the Neanderthal just might walk in on them any minute
now, and once Justin met him and he opened his mouth, she
was ninety-nine percent sure the Neanderthal would get the
beating he deserved for the way he’d been treating her
since he met her.

Justin looked at her with a confused expression on his
face, absorbing everything that she just said, trying to make
sense of what little information she could provide him.
“Justin
are you okay?” she asked.
He blinked back to reality and looked at her with
narrowed eyes.

“Honey
” she said.
“Adrienne
” He took a deep breath. “Your
mother…your real mother
” he said. “What’s her name?”
“Ariana,” Adrienne replied. “Ariana Blanc-Starck.”
Justin released her and took a step back from her.
Adrienne suddenly felt cold once the warmth of Justin’s body
left hers. He continued looking at her with that dazed expression on his face, which made her curious and nervous
at the same time.
“Justin
” she whispered. “Could you please say
something? You’re scaring me.”
Justin closed his eyes for a moment. He took a deep
breath. And then when he looked at her again, his eyes were
suddenly teary.

“Honey
why are you crying?” she asked.
He shook his head. And then suddenly, he smiled.
Then he chuckled. And then he just laughed. Adrienne
stared at him as if he just completely lost his mind.
Justin wounded his arms around her wa-ist, lifted her
off her feet and spun her around while he laughed his heart
out. He laughed as if he hadn’t been doing that for weeks.
“Justin, what’s going on?” Adrienne asked.
He settled her back on her feet. He shook his head.
“Nothing, honey,” he said. “I think
I’ve just been given the
miracle I was asking for.” And then his face descended
towards hers and he gave her another head-spinning,
sanity-disturbing k-ss.

“Justin
” Adrienne whispered after the k-ss. “I know
we have a lot to talk about. But you should go. I should be
going down to the party. My esc-rt will come any minute to
get me. And it’s not advisable for you to actually meet him.”
He raised a brow at her. “Why not?”
She sighed. “Because I don’t want to you to go to jail
for assault or
worse, murder.”
Adrienne didn’t expect it, but Justin actually laughed
again. “He’s that bad, huh? Damn! He’s good,” he said
under his breath.
Adrienne blinked back at him. “What did you say?”
Justin shook his head again. Instead he asked, “Did
your mother tell you that you’re arranged to be married to
this guy?”
Adrienne nodded. “Was. She’s going to call it off.”

Justin stared at her with a sober expression on his
face. “And what if your fiancĂ© doesn’t allow her to call off
the engagement?”
“He doesn’t have a choice. And besides, he hates me
as much as I hate him.”
Justin shook his head. “He doesn’t hate you, honey. In
fact
 he is head over heels in love with you, he wants to
marry you right now.” Adrienne stared back at him, her eyes
wÂĄdened. Then Justin added, “I don’t think your fiancĂ© will
come any minute and interrupt our moment, Adrienne.”
“Why?” She asked in almost a whisper, her knees
getting weaker by the second.
“Because
he’s already here.” Justin replied in a soft
voice, his face full of affection as he said those words.
“Justin
” Tears welled up in Adrienne’s eyes. “How
”
He smiled at her ruefully. “The guy you met
isn’t
your real fiancĂ©, Adrienne,” he said. “I am.”
“You? Your mother is
”
“Christine Adams,” Justin supplied for her.

“You’re my mother’s best friend’s son? But how? I met
a guy, his name is Justin, too. And he’s the most despicable
creature to ever walk the face of the Earth.”
Justin smiled at her. “Yes. Because I paid him to act
that way.”
“What?”
“I didn’t want to go through with this engagement.
There was no way in hell I would marry the girl my parents
chose for me. I already knew who I wanted to spend the rest
of my life with.
“My father asked me to meet this girl and make her
fall in love with me. I didn’t want to. So I asked somebody
else to pose as me and
 make sure she would hate him so
she would back out of this engagement herself. Once I was
sure she hated the idea of marrying me, I could meet her as
myself and give her an even worse time than what the other
Justin did.”

“You paid somebody to pose as you? Didn’t you realize
that somebody might realize that he’s an impostor?”
Adrienne couldn’t believe what Justin did.
“I counted on that, too,” he replied. “I hoped her
parents found out what I did and think the worst things
about me, and never trust the fate of their priceless
daughter in my hands. After all
 what kind of a lunatic
treats a girl that way?”
“Justin! That guy was a whack job!”
“He’s not. He just happens to be a very good actor,”
he said.

“Meeting that guy was like eating my own vomit! It
felt absolutely disgusting! And you did that to me?”
Adrienne asked, almost in a daze.
“I’m sorry, honey. I had no idea it was you! I hadn’t
met my fiancĂ©e. I didn’t have a picture of her. I wasn’t
interested. All I knew was her mother’s name and which
family she belonged to. How was I supposed to know you
have this wh0le family mystery that may make you end up
as my designated fiancĂ©e?”
“What if he
took advantage of me? What if he
harassed me?”
Justin shook his head. “His real name is Jordan. He’s
my cousin. We grew up together and he almost lived with
me. He may be a menace most of the time, but I know he’s
not capable of doing that.”
Adrienne stared back at Justin. His eyes were now
dancing and she didn’t think she’s seen him so happy
before.
“You’re going to pay for that!” she said to him crossly.

He grinned at her. “Now that I know who my parents
wanted me to marry, I am willing to pay the price no matter
how high.”
Adrienne narrowed her eyes at him. Then without
warning, she slapped him. He was taken back a bit. But
when he turned to her again, he was still grinning. His eyes were dancing and he looked like nothing she would say or
do would dampen his spirit or wipe out his happiness.
“I wanna kill you!” she said to him and a part of her
really wanted to do that for putting her through the worst
afternoon and evening of her life. Then she stared up at him
and said, “But maybe later,” she said and she pulled him to
her and k-ssed his l-ips.
His arms wrapped around her wa-ist and he pulled her
to him as he deepened their k-ss. When that k-ss ended he
took a deep breath and inhaled the scent of her. “God, I
missed you.”

Adrienne sighed contentedly. “I missed you, too. Just a
while ago
I was praying you would be happy. I was praying
that God gives you a miracle.”
He chuckled. “Your prayers are powerful. God must
like you the most.”
She couldn’t believe what just happened. A few
minutes back, she thought that he lost his battle. She was
heartbroken when she found out that her mother had
betrothed her to somebody against her will. She wondered

if she hadn’t gotten lost all throughout these years, would
her mother still insist she marries her best friend’s son? If
she hadn’t met Justin before she found out her real identity,
they would be forced to like each other enough to spend the
rest of their lives together
even if there was no love
between them.
Justin pushed back a lock of stray hair away from her
face. “You look beautiful, honey,” he said. “I know now
that
you’re really Andrea Blanc. But you will always be Adrienne
to me
my Adrienne.”
Adrienne smiled bitterly. “My mother said that my real
birth papers say that I’m Andrea Blanc. My passports say
Adrienne Miller. But that’s not my real name. It was the fake
name my father picked out for me to prevent my mother
from finding me. Now, I don’t know what name I should
really use.”

Justin stared at her thoughtfully, feeling her confusion,
and her pain for the way her life had been. It’s never easy to
know you have two different identities and you don’t know
which one really fits.
He smiled at her and said, “Let’s do something about
that, shall we?”
Adrienne didn’t get what he meant by that. But then
he pulled away from her. He stared at her seriously, took a
deep breath and then slowly, he went down on one knee.
Adrienne s-cked in a deep breath. Her heart pounded
loudly in,side her ribcage, she could almost hear it. She had
to hold on to the rails beside her, as she no longer trusted
her knees to support her weight.

Justin took something from his pocket. It was a small
black box. He opened it in front of her and she saw a
gleaming five carat diamond ring.
Justin took a deep breath again. “There are a million
things I wanted to tell you. A hundred lines I thought I would
say whenever I imagined the moment that I would finally
propose to you
for real. But right now, all I can say is that I
love you, Adrienne
I love you
very, very much. I said this
to you before, and I’m going to say it again now
you’re the
one I want to spend the rest of my life with. I never want to
let you go. No matter how many times you set me free. I
had planned to propose to you after I convinced my folks
that there was no way they could force me to take another
bride. But now
by some miracle, I don’t need to do that
anymore.
“But I am saying these things to you not because our
families arranged for this. But because this is what I want

for the rest of my life. I love you so much, I’m willing to give
up everything for you
I live for you
I’m willing to die for
you. You are my life
now, forever, always.” There were
tears in his eyes when he said those words. Then with a
wistful look in his eyes, he added, “You don’t have to choose
which of your names you should use. Will you let me change it to the name that rightfully belongs to you
the one that
suits you the best? Will you be Adrienne Adams? Will you
marry me?”
Tears rolled down Adrienne’s eyes. She wanted to find
her voice right away but she couldn’t stop crying. Justin’s
eyes were filled with tears, too, as he held his breath for her
answer.

“Yes.” she said when she finally found her voice. “You
know I will!” And she knelt in front of him, throwing herself
in his arms.
He caught her and wound his arms around her. He
hugged her tightly, burying his face against her hair, as she
buried hers against his chest.
They savored that moment. They’re engaged. Not by
some sort of arranged marriage. Not in the hypothetical
pretend world. But for real. In this bizarre turn of events,
their alternate universe, where they are betrothed to each
other and planned to spend the rest of their lives together
without obstacles
just came true.
Adrienne pulled away from Justin and looked into his
eyes. He smiled tearfully, as he took her hand and slipped
the ring on her finger. It fit her perfectly.

Justin leaned forward and slowly, k-ssed her l-ips

thoroughly
passionately. And Adrienne wished that k-ss
would never end. When it did, he stood up on his feet and
pulled her up with him. Then he picked her up and spun her
around. She was crying and giggling at the same.
When Justin put her down on her feet, she wiped the
tears on her cheeks and admired the gleaming rock on her
finger.
“It’s beautiful,” she said to him.
“So are you,” Justin whispered to her. “That was my
mother’s engagement ring. She gave it to me before I came
up here. She was really hoping that you and Justin J. had hit
it off.” He chuckled.

“Yes. I came so close to hitting him
with a titanium
alloy bat!” Adrienne said.
Justin laughed. “And I believe that. Jordan actually told
me you were quite feisty. Knowing now that it was you
you
made me so proud.”
“On his business card, it said Justin J.” Adrienne said.
“What does the J. stand for?”
“My middle name, Jeffrey,” Justin answered. “My twin
died a few days after he was born. My mother thought to
give me his name so he would always live in our
memories
through me.”
“Why didn’t you put your surname on the business
card then?” Adrienne asked.
“Are you kidding me? If that card leaked out with my
full name on it, I’ve just committed social suicide!” Justin
said.

Adrienne laughed. “That card was a sure way to turn a
girl off.”
“That was Ian’s idea.” Justin said.
“Your cousins actually helped you out in giving me the
worst hours of my life?”
“We were trying to mess up with Andrea Blanc. And it
worked, right?”
Adrienne nodded. “You got me at ‘machito’,” she said,
now giggling at the memory of her afternoon meeting with
Jordan, alias N-1-9-8-9.
Justin raised a brow at her, clearly not getting what
she meant by that.
“When Jordan ordered coffee at the shop, he asked for
a ‘machito’, instead of a ‘macchiato’. I thought he was such
a moron.”
Justin laughed. “He is good. There is absolutely no
way he could mistake a ‘macchiato’. Their family owns a
huge coffee shop chain in the States.”
Adrienne shook her head. “I cannot believe you guys!”
she said. “Your cousins are going to be the death of me.

Justin laughed. “Ian and Gian liked you—Adrienne. So
they went out of their way to make Andrea Blanc pay.”
“If you sent Gian, our problem would have been
solved earlier.”
“If you answered my calls or actually returned my
messages and told me the wh0le thing about your real
identity, we would have ended this before you even met
Jordan.”
“I was a mess during those times. The wh0le thing
about my family was just overwhelming. Why didn’t you call
me after that then?”
“Because it was part of my agreement with my Dad. I
couldn’t contact you. I was supposed to be focusing all my
attentions in making my fiancĂ©e fall in love with me. I didn’t
want to break that promise because I didn’t want him to find
out just exactly what I was doing. Until I accomplished my
mission, of course.”
“Congratulations! Mission accomplished!” Adrienne
smiled. “What did you plan to do at this party now that
you’re showing up as yourself and without the aid of
Mischief Jordan?”
“Something that would make Andrea Blanc wish she
was engaged to the fake Justin instead. At least he was a
little bit funny.”
Adrienne narrowed her eyes at him. “Really? You’d
leave the gentleman cloak behind just to make her hate
you?”

“Desperate times call for desperate measures, honey.”
Justin grinned at her. “I’d rather live in shame than in misery
for the rest of my life.”
“Jill told me when she saw you at Blush, you were
looking
rather chirpy. You didn’t look miserable at all.”
“Of course. Jordan fed me with news of how my
designated fiancée never wanted to see me again. The plan
was working. And I couldn’t wait for the wh0le thing to be
over so I could be with you.”
“If you asked him to take a picture of me, we would
have been out of this misery earlier.”
“I didn’t need a picture. I didn’t need to know what
she looked like. I wasn’t interested.”
Adrienne sighed. “I can’t believe our parents did this
to us.”

Justin touched her cheek with his fingers. “It was hell
for me, Adrienne. I could count the number of days I actually
stayed sober—with one hand.”
Adrienne bit her lip and her heart went out to Justin.
She touched his cheek with her hand and he turned
sideways to k-ss the in,side of her palm.
“I think I’d drink every night, too, if I didn’t find out
about my new family. It was painful to know the truth about
myself. But I was at least thankful that it provided me a little
distraction. And of course
 now I understand why my sister
and my mom never really liked me.”
“Adrienne
”
“Hmmm
” Adrienne stared up at Justin.
“We’re never going to arrange our kids’ marriages,”
he said. “We will let them find their own happiness. Let
them be free to choose the person who would make them
happy.”

Adrienne smiled. “I totally agree,” she said. “My
mother arranged my own marriage when I was two. Now
that she found me again
she thought I should try to fall in
love with my fiancĂ© first. If I hadn’t gone M.I.A., I wonder if
she would have enforced this
the way your parents did.”
“Judging by the way my mother was so adamant
about this
maybe.”
“Your parents are going to be so happy about this,
aren’t they?” Adrienne asked.
Justin stared at her for a while. Then he nodded. “They
will be ecstatic. Our mothers would think that it was right to
meddle with our lives. My father would be gloating in front of me and they would probably arrange the wedding of the
century by tomorrow.”

Adrienne’s eyes w¡dened. “Do you think they would?”
“I know my parents, Adrienne. And I think I may even
know your mother more than you do. I’ve known her longer
than you have,” Justin observed. “And yes
they would be
so damn proud of this! And they wouldn’t even feel sorry for
the hell they put us through.”
“You’re right. It was only because of a miracle that we
fell in love ahead of the time they set to introduce us to
each other
 but in any other ordinary circ-mstance, both of
us would have been devastated, wouldn’t we?”
Justin nodded. “Yes,” he whispered. Then he took a
deep breath and pulled her to him. He planted a long k-ss on
her l-ips and then he asked, “Do you trust me, Adrienne?”
She smiled against his l-ips. “With all my heart, Justin.”
He pulled away from her and smiled. “Good.” Then he
took her hand in his and pulled her towards the exits.

“Where are we going?” she asked him.
He turned back to her and smiled, “Remember my last
text message to you?” he asked.
She nodded. “Of course.”
“We still have two weeks,” he said.
“Yes
yes we do.”
Justin stepped closer to her. With a mischievous grin
on his face, he said, “Well, I don’t think I can wait two more
weeks
 Mrs. Adams.” And he gave her a k-ss that blew her
mind and took her breath away.

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