I was scarred saving my sister from a fire—years later, she hid me at her wedding, until the groom’s mother said five words that silenced everyone.

quietly in the second row.”

Emily said nothing.

“She wasn’t making this about the fire,” he continued. “You did that when you tried to hide her because of it.”

Emily’s fingers tightened around the bouquet.

“You don’t understand our family.”

“No,” Daniel said. “Apparently I don’t.”

That landed harder than anything Margaret could have said.

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