The Wedding Where The Bride Was Swapped While I Was Underwater Chapter 04

At last, the ceremony ended.

Adrian released a long breath, visibly relaxing.

He turned to Vivian with a placating smile.

“Are you satisfied now?

“Can we bring Nina up? She’s been underwater long enough.”

Vivian looked up at him and pouted.

“How could I possibly say no to you, Mr. Prescott?

“She has suffered so much just so you could defend me. I can’t imagine the tantrum she’ll throw when she gets back.”

Adrian patted the back of her hand.

“Don’t worry. After today’s lesson, she won’t dare cause another scene.”

He took out his phone and called his assistant.

“Have the hair and makeup team wait by the shore.”

After hanging up, he explained to Vivian, “Nina has always been vain. She’ll hate being seen soaked and disheveled.”

Ethan arrived carrying an insulated thermos and two thick towels.

“I brought a thermos of hot chicken broth. Nina’s always been sensitive to the cold. After that long in the ocean, she’ll need something warm.”

Adrian picked up his jacket.

“Come on. Let’s go collect our little princess.”

I hovered above them and watched the two men prepare everything with such apparent care.

They were also the ones who had sent me into the ocean.

If they meant to punish me, why pretend to be concerned now?

Adrian lifted a hand toward the crew.

“Bring her up.”

The steel cage broke through the surface.

Everyone froze when they saw it.

The door hung open.

The cage was empty.

Vivian took a nervous step backward, then gave a derisive laugh.

“We only asked her to think about what she did. She actually opened the cage and swam away?”

Adrian’s face darkened.

“Nina! That’s enough. Come out now!”

Only waves answered him.

Ethan frowned.

“This is ridiculous.

“It was a joke, and now she’s hiding to punish us?”

Adrian’s voice turned hard.

“If she was capable of escaping, she can stay wherever she ran off to. No one is to look for her. Let’s see how long that stubborn streak lasts.”

Ethan nodded.

“He’s right. Leave her alone.”

Their accusations washed over me.

They knew I could not swim, much less dive.

Yet they still assumed I was throwing a tantrum and trying to defy them.

Vivian was not allowed to suffer even the smallest slight.

But even when I was facing death, they saw me as unreasonable.

Someone screamed in the distance.

“The rocks! There’s someone on the rocks!”

Adrian’s expression changed at once, and Ethan went rigid.

“It has to be her,” Adrian said.

Ethan hurried after him.

“This time, she can spend three days locked in her room. She has no idea when to stop.”

They rounded the rocks and found a body lying motionless on the stone.

Adrian stopped dead.

The towels slipped from Ethan’s hands.

There I lay, eyes closed, my face deathly pale and turned toward them.