And beside her were three little boys dressed like princes.
The hall fell silent.
Guests gasped. Phones flew into the air.
“Is that Chik’s ex-wife?”
“She has children!”
“Triplets?”
The whispers spread like fire.
Chik stepped down from the altar in disbelief. His mouth went dry. His hands trembled.
“Tell me I’m dreaming,” he whispered to his friend Kunnel.
Kunnel blinked. “Bro… she has children.”
Goi walked forward gracefully, holding the boys’ hands. The crowd parted for her. She sat in the very front-row seat Chik had reserved for her.
Not as a humiliated woman.
As living proof.
Adora entered moments later and immediately noticed the silence. She followed everyone’s stare and then turned to Chik.
“Who is that woman?”
Chik swallowed hard. “That’s Goi.”
“Your ex-wife?”
He nodded.
“And those children?”
He said nothing.
Adora’s face changed. “Chik… are those her children?”
Still he could not answer.
The pastor cleared his throat awkwardly. “Shall we begin?”
But Adora was no longer looking at the pastor. She was looking at Chik.
“You told me she was barren.”
“I thought she was,” he stammered.
“You thought?” Adora’s voice rose. “You told me that was why you left her. You said she could not give you children.”
“I believed it—”
“You believed it? Did you ever get tested?”
He said nothing.
Adora stared at him in horror. “You never showed me any results. You never agreed to be tested yourself.”
He wiped sweat from his forehead. “Can we talk about this later?”
“No,” Adora said. “We will talk now. In front of everyone.”
Then she turned to Goi.
“Please forgive me for asking this,” she said. “Are those boys your children?”
Goi stood slowly and lifted the smallest one into her arms.
“Yes,” she said clearly. “They are my sons.”
The room went completely still.
Then she looked at Chik.
“You called me barren,” she said. “You threw me out. You made me feel like less than a woman. But I was never the problem. You never agreed to be tested. You blamed me for your own shame. And God answered in a way no one can deny. He gave me not one child, but three.”
The hall erupted into whispers.
Adora turned back to Chik, her face full of fury and disbelief. “So you lied. You ruined her. You dragged her name. And all this time it was you.”
Chik’s lips trembled. “I didn’t know…”
“You didn’t care,” Adora cut in.
Then she stepped away from him.
“I cannot marry you,” she said. “Not today. Not ever.”
Gasps filled the hall.
The pastor stepped back. The choir stopped moving. The cameras swung toward Adora as she dropped her bouquet and walked out, her bridesmaids rushing behind her.
Chik stood there, stunned, as his wedding collapsed around him.
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