Chapter 1

I walked out of the hospital in a daze as I took out my phone to make a call.

"Jayden, does your word still count when you said you wanted to marry me?"

On the other end of the line, Jayden's cynical voice was heard saying, "What do you take me for, Riley? Your backup plan?"

"I'll marry someone else if you're not willing to."

"Wait! I'll marry you," Jayden said with clenched teeth, "You agreed to marry me, Riley. Don't regret this."

"It's a deal."

After settling on a wedding date, I hung up and returned to my wedding. I apologized to all my friends and family in attendance and announced that the wedding had been postponed to a month later.

I dragged my exhausted body home after making arrangements for everyone present at the wedding.

Not long after I got home, I heard someone at the door.

Sean Lowry walked into the house. He looked at me apologetically. "I'm so sorry, Riley. I had an emergency today."

I smiled bitterly. "An emergency? What could be more important than our wedding?"

Sean looked at me and said, "My friend was in an accident. It was a life and death situation. I didn't have enough time to explain the situation to you. I had to get her to a hospital right away."

If I had not seen it with my own eyes and seen how much he, Yvonne and the baby looked like a family of three, I would have believed him.

When Sean did not appear at our wedding and I could not get through to his phone, I was extremely worried that something had happened to him on the way.

It was not until I saw Yvonne Channing's friend's post on social media about them that I found out he was accompanying Yvonne for her delivery.

I felt like a complete fool.

Tears flowed down my face. I did not want to cry over him, but I could not stop the waves of sadness in my heart.

Sean panicked when he saw me crying. He pulled me into his arms to comfort me. "I know you felt horrible about today, Riley. I promise you I won't be absent during our next wedding."

My hands were on his chest as I pushed him away. I choked back a sob. "That's not necessary. We won't have another wedding."

Sean was in disbelief. He said, "Stop saying things you don’t mean. I know you've postponed the wedding to a month later."

His phone rang when I was about to tell him he was not the groom in that wedding.

The look on Sean's face changed when he saw the name on his phone. "All right. I'll head over right now."

He let me go and turned to leave. It was only when he was at the door that he turned to me and explained, "I need to handle an emergency right now. Be good and wait at home for me. We'll discuss the wedding when I come home."

I did not reply. It was quite a while before I checked my social media again, but when I did, I saw Yvonne post something new.

It was a side picture of Sean holding a baby.

"No one can understand the pain of breast engorgement after giving birth. How fortunate that my baby's father is by my side to help me. He's so good at getting my milk out."