The mayor tried to ruin me at the altar—until the pastor spoke a single name that brought the entire ceremony to a halt

to it that you never work in this county again.”

The security guards began to walk down the aisle toward me. I pressed my back against the cold floor, trying to push myself away, but my muscles were shaking too hard.

“Hold on a minute.”

The voice wasn’t a shout. It wasn’t hysterical. It was calm, steady, and cut through the tension in the room like a continue reading …