I stood in my wedding dress moments before the ceremony—until the man I loved called off the marriage, choosing his family’s judgment over me in an instant that changed everything

him stood his mother, straight-backed and imperious as a queen cut from ice, pearls gleaming at her throat. His father adjusted his gold cufflinks with bored impatience. Beyond the chapel doors, the organ played softly while two hundred guests waited for me to become part of the Vale family.

Adrian couldn’t hold my gaze for long.

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