Secretly the god of war

004

“Grace Munroe, I’ll ask you once. Do you love and wish to marry me. It doesn’t matter whatever you want, I will provide you with everything.” Ray asked, hoping what Bruce said to him was a joke.

Removing the veil that was over her face, Grace sneered disgustingly at Ray.

“What are you doing here?” She asked.

“Answer my question Grace! Do you love and wish to marry me?” Ray said again, his blood boiling slowly. From hind sight he could see that Grace was no longer fond of him. But he needed to ask this just in case.

“No!” She exclaimed, drawing the attention of everyone, including the groom’s family. “Why on earth will I marry someone as useless as you? You look so shabby and disgusting that I want to puke.”

“Love? Far from it. I’ve never loved you! And did you just say you will provide me with anything? Are you rich enough to buy me a Rolls Royce car?” She replied bluntly, not caring that she was hurting his feelings.

At that moment, a young man had walked towards the two, and the person was none other than the groom; Simon Grayson. The only heir of the Grayson family and also a soldier having the rank of a warrant officer in the army.

Due to the sudden interruption of the event, everyone including the Grayson family were now aware of Ray’s relationship with the Munroe’s family.

He was a young boy who had lost his family in a car accident and barely managed to survive. He was taken in by the Munroe family who were friends of his late parents.

They took care of him as their own till he grew up, and during the years, he had fallen for Grace, thereby leading to a short-while dating.

At that time, Bruce and Mia, had prohibited the two from dating and in turn, Ray had asked if he could marry Grace. by then, he was just 20 while Grace was 18.

Bruce had replied to his question, offering to let him marry his daughter in the next five years. What he didn’t expect was for Ray to join the army.

He thought he would become a high ranking soldier in a few years, but seeing how he had been stuck in the same position for the last few years had done nothing but make Bruce happy.

He wasn’t fond of Ray at all, and the last thing he wanted was for his daughter to marry him. Before now, he had made several attempt to get rid of Ray, but they were all to no avail.

Not even the several food poisoning would take away his life. He would get sick for a while, but hours later he’ll be back in full shape. It was as if he was some type of immortal that can’t be killed.

Simon had appeared beside his bride, his hand holding onto her waist.

“Are you alright, honey?” He said the words aloud so Ray could hear them clearly.

Ignoring him, Ray continued.

“But, Grace… I love you so much. You promised to be with me till the end of our years. Have you forgotten?” Ray tried to jolt her memory, thinking Grace must have forgotten about him.

But instead, her response had shocked him.

“At that time, I was still young, I must have blurted that out due to my oblivious idea of the real world. Also, It’s been a very long time, so I don’t remember any of those promises!”

“Even if I remember, that doesn’t change the fact that I don’t love you! You’re poor, useless, and worthless. Talking to you has made me sick! I want you out of here!” Grace yelled, her voice echoing the whole hall.

Soon after, the crowds and guests had started murmuring; hauling different type of insults at Ray for interrupting the wedding between two influential family.

“Get this bastard out of here!”

“What kind of insult is this to the Munroe and Grayson’s family? That man should be dealt with.”

“Of course, they should have him punished right now!”

Calming Grace down, Simon had patted her on the back. “It’s okay sweetheart, let me deal with him.”

Everyone had silent down as they saw that Simon was ready to act against the intruder. He carefully let go of Grace and walked towards Ray.

“Seeing how you’re still here, you must have a lot of nerves on you. You didn’t just interrupt my wedding, you embarrassed my wife in front of everyone!” Simon yelled.

Scoffing, Ray replied. “Your wedding? This was meant to be my wedding! And if anyone was humiliated here, that is me. Not only did you wasted my time, you also deprived me of the rights of marrying my engaged. How much embarrassment could that be?”

“Of course, that’s because you’re a worthless piece of trash. I heard you’re just a corporal in the army. You just committed an offence by disrupting the wedding of a high ranking soldier.”

“To punish you for this, I’ll have you beaten in front of everyone. Also, consider yourself done in the army. I will talk to the officials to remove you from your position, consequently after I’m done dealing with you here.”

Simon signalled for two of his subordinates and they had started approaching Ray from both sides.

“On your knees soldier.” Simon said.

“I think you must have been mistaken. If anyone should be on his knees, that should be you. And how dare you talk to me with no respect?”

Although Ray was trying not to reveal his real identity, he felt like he might have to do so to protect himself from this brat who called himself a warrant officer in the army.

Simon glared into Ray’s eyes and smirked. “Respect…? I’ll teach you respect.”

The two soldiers approaching Ray had gotten closer to him, but before they could grab him, he had planted a fist into one’s face, while also hitting the other in the stomach.

By doing so, he had gotten rid of two opponents in just a few seconds.

Everyone’s eyes had widened as they saw this, the display of strength was shocking and unbelievable to them. Yet, Simon didn’t seem fazed by this at all. Instead, he ordered for more men to fight him.

Still, they were all taken down and defeated by Ray.

Now there were no more soldiers willing to challenge Ray again, after seeing his display of strength, they had become cautious of him. Frustrated, Simon had decided to face him.

“I thought you would keep on hiding behind your subordinates, it’s a good thing you decided to face me yourself.” Ray taunted.

“You… you disgust me, prepare to die!” Simon yelled as he prepared to fight Ray.

…

Meanwhile, outside the Munroe’s apartment, two Rolls Royce cars had arrived. And stepping out of one was Ella. After Ray had saved her life, she had decided to pay him back by attending his wedding and gifting both of the couples with a car.

She knew it wasn’t enough for what Ray had done for her, but she felt she needed to at least appreciate him with her presence.

However to her dismay, she noticed that things weren’t looking good, as people were discussing about an intruder that had interrupted the wedding.

“What could be going on?” Ella wondered.