Reborn ghost seeing lady is pampered by her ex husband - Chapter 434

Chapter 434: A secret marriage marriage!
One of the most exciting days in Fog country arrived, the official day of the Sunflower ball. It was a day that was celebrated all through the country, sunflowers could be found in every flower shop. Like lovers gave away roses on valentine, sunflowers were given away on this day.

Their yellow petals could be seen in the window of every store and inside every garbage dump in the cases where the woman broke some poor man’s heart by rejecting them.

Bars, restaurants and hotels served sunflower themed drinks and food. Women could be seen wearing sunflower hairpins or dresses with sunflowers. Yellow was the theme of the day for most people. At least one piece of clothing on their bodies had to be that color.

Even though the official ball was mostly attended by founding families, politicians and other elite, parties and balls were thrown in other venues around the country to celebrate the day. In the old days, it was like a debutante ball, now it was less of that and more of an opportunity for young wealthy women to show off their sunflowers, dresses and diamonds.

It had become a competition, the more sunflowers one received from potential suitors, the more they were seen as desirable. It often elevated one to the list of most wanted bachelorettes in the country quickly.

Ruth had been topping that list for the past five years in a row, for Phoebe, everyone was waiting to see. They did not anticipate much as she was already taken anyway.

Phoebe was unaware of all the expectations that strangers around the country had of her, and she was lazing around in her bedroom when she got a text from Collin her eldest brother asking her to meet him at the courthouse.

When she saw courthouse, her heart skipped a beat and quickly, she read the follow up message. It highlighted that she should not inform anyone and that she should go there alone.

“What trouble did he get into?” she muttered,

She dressed up quickly and practically flew out of the house because she run faster than she usually did and drove herself there.

To her surprise, on getting there she realized that her other brothers were there already, not just them though as Shanna was there as well, holding Collin’s hand. She wore an all-white body hugging dress with ruffles around the arms, a big white ribbon was fixed at the back of her hair which cascaded to her lower back. Her face a mixture of excitement, shyness and worry.

A woman wearing white at a courthouse, there were very few guesses to explain the reason why.

“Guys.” Phoebe said, slowly, drawing out the word before speeding up. “What the hell is going on?” She looked from the couple to Andre and Luke last.

He had a blank expression on his face, which was his usual look. A thing that made him the hardest Mayfair to read. And yet, if anyone knew anything, it had to be him.

Andre immediately covered the gap between them and took Phoebe’s arm. “Pheebs, you got a message too! I thought it was just me and for a moment my heart dropped. I thought I was being sued or had forgotten to pay off a parking ticket. Worst case scenario was that our big brother had managed to get himself arrested or something. What do you think they are up to?”

His narrowed eyes shifted to Collin who had moved away from their group. He and Shanna were talking to a woman that sat behind a short glass counter.

Luke thought his younger siblings were idiots and he rolled his eyes before responding. “Are you two sharing one brain cell or just individually slow?”

Phoebe and Andre glared at him with the same expressions of anger on their faces.

Luke sighed and pointed at Collin. “No offense, I love you guys, Anyway, can’t you two take a guess? Shanna Lee is dressed in all white, our brother in his best black tuxedo and we are at the section of the court where marriages are registered. Look around, you can see couples all around.”

He was right, to their left, right, front and back, couples were holding hands, filling in paperwork and taking photographs.

Phoebe’s breath caught in her throat, surely her brother cannot be that stupid. Their mother was going to kill him!!! She was planning the wedding as if it was not Collin and Shanna’s but hers.

“Crazy! crazy! crazy! Oh, she is going to kill him. Mom is going to going to kill him and the rest of us because I am sure that our dearest brother wants us to be his witnesses. I love Collin but our mother and grandmother will skin us alive for being accomplices in the crime of an illegal wedding.” Phoebe’s voice quivered a little.

“Illegal wedding!” Luke laughed.

The spirit came out of the space. “Oooh, you are so screwed little one, forget your mother, old man Lee will not like this one bit, and you will all pay dearly.” It clicked its tongue continuously.

Andre chewed on his nails. “I am with Pheebs on this, do you know how many people this will piss off! Why can’t they wait?” He twisted his lips.

“Is Shanna pregnant? ” Phoebe blurted out.

The question was heard by those that were approaching, namely Minka Lee and her husband Gerald Osborne.

Minka rushed to stand in front of Phoebe. “You think so too? I suspected as much, otherwise why would she be rushing to marry if she was not pregnant?”

She did not wait for a response but rather walked towards the couple to confront Shanna, her husband offered a bow to the Mayfair’s and rushed after his angry wife.

Phoebe watched them go, more interested in the female ghost that followed them than the fact that Minka who was arguably one of the biggest gossips of the founding lane now thought Shanna was pregnant.

Luke scoffed and diverted his attention to Phoebe. “Pheebs, have you heard anything about Dickson? What’s going on with that?” He arched an eyebrow.

“David said that the b-o-d-y is frozen, and they are still searching for a perfect cause of death, one that wouldn’t require people to view his body or the police to nose around” Phoebe answered, she had a couple of ideas that she wanted to run by David.

She spelled the word body instead of saying it outright in case Minka appeared again.

Luke crossed one leg over the other. “That is easy, they can just claim that he got infected with a deadly contagious disease. That means sealed coffin and incineration.” He casually spoke.

“It won’t do because that means that all the people that were at grandpa Rufus’ party will be quarantined and tested. A car, boat, ski, fire, accidental fall and such will make the police nose around. They take deaths of people from founding families seriously and always want an autopsy.” She let out a tiny sigh.

Luke nodded in agreement. “I didn’t think much about that, that asshole is still being a headache even after death.”

“Me and my ghost team came up with a perfect plan, stay indoors after the ball, there is going to be a storm.” Phoebe warned.

Collin and Shanna approached them, the expression on their faces stern like they would not be taking no for an answer.

“I will kill you first if you don’t sign.” Collin threatened his younger siblings.

“Please guys, if we do this our mother’s will have no choice but to rash the wedding.” Shanna politely said to them.

While they could resist Collin, Shanna was different. Who could say no to those big blue eyes? They all signed as witness to their marriage.

“We are all dead.” Andre’s fingers clutched onto the pen after signing his name.