My fiancé left me at the altar for being poor—until his brother exposed the truth in front of everyone and turned the entire wedding upside down.

Daniel ordered black coffee. I ordered pancakes, fries, and a milkshake because grief, apparently, had the appetite of a teenager.

“You don’t have to stay,” I said after a while.

He looked genuinely confused. “Where would I go?”

“Back to your family. Explain yourself. Clean up the mess.”

“I didn’t make the mess.”

“No,” I said. “But you stepped into it.”

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