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BENEATH THE FACADE

Behind the façade of wealth and power, a web of secrets awaits..

Chapter 104

Emily’s POV

If someone had told me a year ago that I’d be standing here, in a soft ivory dress with sunlight spilling through the glass walls, my hand wrapped in Eddy’s… I would’ve laughed. Or cried. Maybe both.

Life had thrown me into storms I never thought I could survive. I’d lost people I loved, I’d been betrayed in ways I still couldn’t fully name, and for so long, I thought I’d never breathe without the weight pressing against my chest.

And yet… here I was.

The ceremony was small. Intimate. Not the grand, glittering wedding my father once dreamed for me — the kind that would have made headlines and cemented alliances. No, this was different. This was ours.

Eddy had insisted on something simple, something real. Just family, a few close friends, no cameras, no reporters, no extravagance.

I’d agreed, though a part of me still ached knowing who wasn’t here — my father, sitting behind ste
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