ARNOLD's P O V

It's been three months since Celestine left the city and the villa… and today is the day that her sister, Leina, and I will finally get married.

My parents came to the conclusion that they wanted to throw the ‘‘Wedding of the Century,’’ so they invited a large number of guests and spent no less than one hundred million dollars on the event, which was lavish in every sense of the word.

At an early hour of the morning, the Maxwell villa was packed with many people. The entire building was surrounded by reporters from a variety of countries on all sides. After one another… luxury...