All The Wrong Reason episode 35

🌸ALL THE WRONG REASONS 🌸
🌹 EPISODE THIRTY-FIVE🌹

Two hours later, Adrienne was at the airport with Justin.
She wasn’t thinking. She didn’t care. She knew it was wrong
in some way. But she felt tired of doing everything that
everybody around her expected of her. She lived with a
stepmother who never saw anything good in what she did, a
father who didn’t know how to stand up for her, and now
she had a mother who mapped out her future without even
telling her. Maybe the time had come for her to think about
herself. Time to follow her heart and go after what she
wanted. And that’s Justin.
Jin walked in to the lobby of the airport, carrying a
small bag with him. She texted him that she left the party
and she needed him to bring some of her stuff to the
airport.
He looked at her with a sober expression on his face.
“I hope you know what you’re doing, Adrienne,” he
said to her.

“I don’t,” she said to him. “But for the first time in my
life, I’m just…doing what I want.”
He smiled at her and looked over at the counter where
Justin was, booking their flights.
“And it’s him?” he asked.
Adrienne nodded. Then she asked him, “Jin…did you
know that Mom arranged a marriage for me?”
Jin raised a brow. “No. If I knew, I would have done
something about it. I’m against arranged marriages,
Adrienne. I knew Mom played matchmaker. But I didn’t know
she’d already sentenced you.”
Adrienne nodded. “She told me at the party.”
Jin smiled. “She was so worried. She didn’t know how
to tell Christine that you didn’t want to go through with it.
But then, you didn’t show up at the party and texted me
that you left. Now, she feels so guilty that she scared you
off.”

“Oh my God, Jin.” Her hand went to her mouth. “Is she
okay?”
Jin grinned. “She’ll be okay. Let’s make her
contemplate on what she’s done for a while. She can’t
meddle with our lives like this.”
“Do they know?”
“That the guy they set you up with was already your
boyfriend?” Jin asked. He shook his head. “Only I know.
Because when your betrothed showed up at the soiree, I
immediately recognized him. I remembered him from the
bar the first time I met you. I didn’t know he was the Justin
Adams, whose family had been so close to us all these
years. But I wouldn’t tell her that, Yen. Let’s enjoy this little
joke to ourselves for a while.” He grinned.

“What about Justin’s parents?”
Jin stared over to where Justin stood again. “I think…
his phone has rung non-stop. I won’t be the one to break the
news to them. If you ask me, our mother and his parents all
deserved to be taught a lesson.” Then Jin winked at her. He
handed her a small bag. “I just grabbed whatever I could.
Your IDs, wallet and passport are in the pocket. Where are
you going, anyway?”
Adrienne smiled at Jin uncertainly. For the first time,
she didn’t know where her destination was, but she had
complete faith in Justin. She trusted him with her heart, and
now, she’s trusting him with her life.
“I don’t know. I don’t care. Right now, I just…wanna be
with him.”

“I told Mom that I thought you ran away and that I
was going to come after you. I’ll probably just tell her you
wanted to go back to New York and think for a while. After all…all this hoopla could be overwhelming, too. I’m sure she
should give you time considering she kept it from all of us
how she tried to manipulate your future.”
“Jin, please don’t let her think that she’s going to lose
me again. This is just… something that I have to do. I broke
up with Justin a couple of weeks ago because his family
arranged for him to marry somebody else. His family
disowned him. I couldn’t do that to him. So I gave him up so
he could get to know the girl chosen by his parents for him.
And it almost tore me apart. He didn’t give up on me
though. He fought for me nevertheless.
“I hurt Justin when I gave him up. We’ve been through
the worst in our lives. I need to make this up to him, now
that I know his parents will no longer disown him if he
chooses to be with me.” Adrienne took a deep breath. “I just
want us to savor this moment.”
Jin nodded. “As long as you’re happy, Yen.” He leaned
forward and gave her a hug. “I hate it that I just got you
back and now he’s taking you away from me,” he whispered
and his voice really did have a trace of sadness.
“You won’t lose me, Jin,” Adrienne said, tears welling
up in her eyes as she hugged her brother back.

“I know. But when I see you again, I have a feeling
you’ll be…Adrienne Adams. Impressive ring, by the way.
Congratulations.”
She giggled then she pulled away from him. “Take
care of Mom, okay? Don’t let her get too sad. Yes, she
shouldn’t have meddled with my life like this. But I don’t
want her to be depressed. Besides, she already apologized
to me and promised to call it off.”
Jin nodded. “Of course. I don’t agree with what she
did, but she’s still our Mom. She deserves to know that her
plan worked out after all…well, after feeling sorry about it,
of course.”
Justin appeared behind them. He looked at Jin for a
while and then he extended his hand to him.

“I’m Justin.” he said to Jin.
Jin shook his hand. “And I’m the guy who will beat the
shit out of you if you hurt my sister.”
“Jin!” Adrienne hissed at her brother.
“It’s okay, honey,” Justin said. Then he turned back to
Jin. “I will take care of her, you don’t have to worry. She will
be safest when she is with me.”
Jin nodded. Then he turned to Adrienne. “Keep in
touch. Call me if you need anything. And I mean anything!”
Adrienne nodded. Then she hugged Jin again. “I love
you, Jin,” she whispered to him. And she meant that. Even
though, she just met her brother, she managed to build a
sibling bond with him the way Kimberly never did in the
twenty-five years she thought she was her sister.
“I love you too, sis. Be happy, okay?”
“You know I will be.”
Jin left and Adrienne turned to Justin.
“That guy is going to be my brother-in-law?” he asked,
raising a brow while staring at Jin’s back.
“Justin….”
“I remember wanting to punch all his teeth down his
throat when I thought he was interested in you.”
Adrienne smiled. “He was. But not for the reasons you
thought. He suspected I was his long, lost sister.”
“Thank God, you were!” Justin smiled.
“I’m surprised you didn’t recognize him.”

“He probably hates going to our little family reunions
as much as I do. So, we never met each other. But I’ve
always known the girl I was supposed to marry belonged to
the Starck family. Once, when I thought he was going after
you, I feared an unimaginable fate for myself. You—
becoming my sister-in-law.”
Adrienne’s eyes w¡dened. “Oh my God! That would be
really messed up, right?”
“Yup. I didn’t even want to think about what I was
going to do. I think I’d probably live halfway across the globe and never show up to family reunions ever.”
Adrienne giggled. “Why would you do that?”

Justin’s eyes narrowed at her. “Did you really think I
could ever stop loving you, Adrienne?” He pushed a lock of
stray hair away from her face. “I probably would want to kill
myself every single day if I ended up with that fate.”
Adrienne smiled. “Then let’s be thankful that I was the
missing sister of Jin Starck instead. So be good to him,
okay?”
He pulled her to him and gave her a soft k-ss on the
l-ips. “Yes…for now. So let’s get married soon so I can show
him who’s the boss.”
Adrienne laughed. “Where are we going, anyway?”
Justin grinned at her. “We’re eloping to Italy,” he
replied. Then he stared at her with a wistful expression on
his handsome face. “Are you sure about this, honey?
Because once you board that plane, there will be no turning
back for you. When you go back to Paris or New York, you
will be Mrs. Justin Adams.” His eyes were dancing and
Adrienne could see just how happy he was. And she felt
exactly the same way.
“Your parents called you yet?”
“Once every five minutes in the last two hours.”
“Did you answer them?”
“Nope. I did send my Mother an apology text
message.”

“What did you say?”
Justin shrugged. “‘I’m sorry Mom. I really love my
girlfriend. And I only want her in my future. Someday I hope
you will understand.’ And that’s it.”
“Justin…she will think you went and eloped with your
girlfriend,” Adrienne said.
Justin grinned at her. “And I am.”
“But…they don’t know me.”
“Yes. They don’t know I’m already in love with the girl
that they wanted me to marry. And right now, I’m not too excited to break the news to them just yet.”
“Justin…they will be mad at us for running away.”
“You think?” he asked. Then he smiled. “They will get
the ending they wanted. I just don’t want them to gloat just
yet. I want them to pay even just a little bit of a price for it.”
“That’s why we’re eloping to Italy?” she asked.

He grinned at her mischievously. “That’s my excuse,”
he said. Then his face turned serious. “The real reason is
that…I know what it was like to not have you in my life and
face an uncertain future without even knowing for sure that
you’re going to be a part of it. I don’t want that anymore,
Adrienne. I want to wake up with you in the mornings and
hold you in my arms at nights. Right now… I just don’t care
what anybody will think or feel. It’s our time, Adrienne. This
time… what matters is just the two of us. Our parents…

threatened our happiness before. I just want to make sure
they couldn’t do anything to it again.”
“They will be disappointed when they find out we got
married without them. Our mothers probably planned our
wedding in their heads a long time ago.”
“But that’s the point. They were planning the wedding
of the children they arranged to marry. That’s not us,
Adrienne. We fell in love with each other without their help
or influence. Our love story has always been about…just the
two of us,” Justin said. “I planned to marry you in Italy. Like
this. In a rom-ntic setting fit for two lovers who won their
fight against the world. Nothing should change that just
because I found out that you and the girl I was arranged to
be married to are one and the same person. I’m still
marrying Adrienne Miller. Not Andrea Blanc.”
Adrienne smiled at him. She thought that he did have
a point. She accepted her betrothal to the man she loved
with all her heart. Not the person her mother thought she
should marry. Sure, their parents might be disappointed and
would probably get mad at them when they do not return
tomorrow or the next day. But they’ve been through a lot in the past few weeks. She thought they deserved this little
piece of heaven. And nothing changed between the two of
them. Especially not their love for each other.
“Unless…you want a big wedding, honey,” he said. “In
that case, we’re going to Italy not to get married…but to
advance our honeymoon.” He grinned at her.

Adrienne smiled at him. She shook her head. “I never
wanted a big wedding. Just because I found out that my
mother is rich and can afford the biggest wedding of the
century doesn’t mean it would change who I am and what I
want. I am still Adrienne Miller—the girl with simple needs
and desires. And right now…I only want one thing.” She
stared up Justin. “You.”
He smiled at her. “Then I promise you, you won’t
regret it, Mrs. Adams.”
“I’m not Mrs. Adams yet.” She laughed.
He k-ssed her l-ips and pulled her towards the check-in
counters. “You will be in less than a week. So better get
used to that name…Mrs. Adrienne Adams.” He winked at
her.

As she walked beside him, she said her new name in
her head.
Adrienne Adams.
“I like it very much.” She said to him. “It feels like…
me.”