My sister lifted her glass, called me “just a nurse” in front of the entire wedding, and the room laughed with her—until the groom’s father looked straight at me like he’d seen a ghost and said five words that changed the air in the room

issues?”

There was silence, then a sigh. That familiar sigh Aaron used when he’d been caught but wanted to sound tired instead of guilty.

“She’s just protecting the family image, Reagan. Don’t make a scene.”

“Protecting it from what? From me?”

“You’re twisting this.”

“Did you go along with it?”

He didn’t answer, which was an answer.

I looked at him—or at continue reading …