A billionaire discovers his daughter hiding during a wedding—until she reveals a chilling message that changes everything and shatters the ceremony.

at me with eyes that had lost everything except clarity.

“Promise me you won’t confuse rescue with love,” she whispered.

At the time, I thought she was talking about grief in general.

Now I understood she had known me too well.

I wanted to be rescued from loneliness. Vanessa had noticed. She had not loved the broken parts of me; she had mapped them.

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