LOGINShe was teary by the end, which made me feel like I'd absolutely nailed it. "I now pronounce you husband and wife," the officiant said. "You may kiss your bride." I pulled Paige into my arms and kissed her while everyone cheered. At the reception, Danny gave his best man speech with way too mu
ASHER I'd performed in front of millions of people, won three acting awards, and done my own stunts in a movie where I nearly died twice. But standing in this room waiting to get married, I was more terrified than I'd ever been in my entire life. Ten dates. That's what I'd told Paige we neede
When my parents came back from their conference, Damon told me he wanted our families to know about our relationship officially. I was nervous, but I agreed. The next evening, everyone gathered in the main living room. My parents, Aunt Sky and her husband, Victor, Ella, Asher and his new girlf
My heart started racing. "Really? You can do that?" "If you have the recording, yes. If not, I can go to Frank and get it from him." "I have it," I said quickly. "I made Frank send it to me. I thought if my dad ever found out and tried to go after Frank's mother, I could use the recording to thr
I'd missed this so much. Missed him so much. "I missed you," he whispered between kisses. "God, I missed you so much. It was driving me crazy." "I missed you too," I breathed. "So much." He lifted me up and I wrapped my legs around his waist as he carried me to the bed. We fell onto the ma
PRINCESS After standing there for a while watching Damon walk away, I couldn't let him just leave. Not after everything. Not after searching for him all day in a wedding dress like some kind of romantic comedy protagonist who'd lost her mind. I followed him into the house and went straight
I started walking toward them, ready to... I don't know, assert my claim? Challenge him to a duel? Ask her to choose me instead? I hadn't really thought that far ahead. But then I watched as she rolled her eyes at whatever he was saying and walked away from him without a word. I stopped dead i
She laughed. Actually laughed. Then she pulled out her phone and showed me her banking app. My eyes nearly fell out of my head. She had more money than me. Significantly more money than me. Like, "could buy a small country" more money than me. "My dad and Ella's dad are best friends,"
At first it was subtle. She stopped holding my hand as much. Started making excuses for why she couldn't visit as often. Her smiles became forced and her attention wandered whenever I talked. Then one day she just stopped coming altogether. My best friend stopped coming too. I called him
My eyes began to fill with tears as I stared at the evidence of what my mother had done to him. My mother had ordered this. My mother had looked at another human being and decided he deserved to be run over with a car, to be broken and scarred and permanently injured. "This is what your mother







