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rings drove painfully into my fingers. Cameras flashed. His smile never shifted.
At the altar, my groom whispered, “You belong to me”—so I smiled, revealed the truth I’d been hiding, and turned our wedding into the moment his entire life began to collapse
The priest continued the ceremony. In the front pew, Adrian’s mother, Celeste, watched with the satisfied expression of royalty admiring a victory.
I smiled.
