登入JuliusI ordered the whiskey but I couldn't bring myself to drink it.It sat in front of me on the scarred wooden bar, the amber liquid catching the dim light from the neon signs on the wall. I stared at it like it might hold some answer or an explanation for what had just happened.Unfortunately, it was just whiskey. It couldn't tell me why the woman I loved had just ripped my heart out and handed it back to me in pieces.The bartender was an older guy with dark circles under his eyes who seemed to have seen enough drunk misery to know when to leave someone alone. He wiped down the other end of the bar and didn't bother me. The few other patrons were lost in their own worlds, nursing their own problems. Nobody cared about the man in the expensive suit sitting alone with an untouched drink.I thought I knew Jane. That was the thing that kept circling through my mind as I stared ahead aimlessly. I thought I knew her. I thought I understood who she was, what she wanted and what we w
JuliusI let go of Jane like I had been burned, stumbling back a step. The room was spinning. Nothing made sense. Everything I thought I knew, everything I had felt over the past few weeks was all crashing down around me."I don't believe you," My voice came out hoarse. "I don't believe any of this. There's something you're not telling me.""There's nothing else to tell," She was sobbing now, her whole body shaking. "I'm pregnant with Hudson's baby. I've been sleeping with him. That's the truth.""Stop saying that!" The words came out as a roar, all my control finally snapping. "Stop standing there and lying to my face! Whatever this is, whatever game you're playing, just stop it!""It's not a game!" She shouted back, her face crumpling. "Do you think this is a game to me? Do you think I wanted any of this?""Then why?" I demanded, my voice cracking. "If you've been sleeping with Hudson this whole time, why did you stay here? Why did you let me fall in love with you? Why did you let
JuliusI was in a damn good mood when I walked through the door that evening.My meeting had gone better than expected. I landed a deal that would have normally consumed my thoughts for the rest of the night, but as soon as I stepped into the penthouse, all I could think about was Jane.She usually came home first on some days when I had to work later than usual.I loosened my tie as I walked through the foyer, listening for sounds of her presence. Music from the kitchen or the soft pad of her feet on the marble floors. She had a way of moving through my space that made it feel less like a cold showpiece and more like a home."Jane?" I called out."In here."Her voice came from the living room, and something in her tone made me pause. It was flat and lifeless and nothing like the warm, slightly teasing way she usually greeted me when I came home.I found her sitting on the edge of the sofa, her hands clasped tightly in her lap. She was still wearing the elegant dress she had worn t
JaneMy legs felt weak. I slid down the wall until I was sitting on the dirty ground, my expensive dress that Julius had bought me pooling around me."What do you want from me?" I asked again, but this time, my voice was hollow. Hudson crouched down in front of me, his eyes gleaming with triumph. "I want you to tell Julius the truth.""The truth?""I want you to tell him the baby isn't his. I want you to tell him it's mine."The world tilted. For a moment, I thought I actually might vomit right there in the alley."You're insane," I whispered. "Why would I do that?""Because if you don't, I'm going to release every single one of these photos to the media. The Times, the Post, every gossip blog and tabloid in the city. By tomorrow morning, everyone will know that you fucked your fiancé's father in a parking garage while wearing your wedding dress. They'll know you've been living with him. They'll know you're pregnant, and I'll make sure everyone believes you did it for the money.""Ju
JaneI couldn't stop shaking. My hands trembled so violently that I dropped my phone twice before I even made it out of the parking lot. Maribel's face kept flashing through my mind. That knowing smirk on her lips and the way her eyes had gleamed when she realized I was pregnant. God, I was so stupid. I should have been more careful. I should have gone to a clinic across town where no one would recognize me, but I had been so desperate to confirm what I already suspected, that I hadn't thought about running into anyone I knew.Now Maribel knew. Which meant Hudson would know soon, if he didn't already. The thought made my stomach twist painfully.I needed to tell Julius right now before this spiraled even further out of my control. I needed to tell Julius about the baby and pray that he wanted this as much as I did, but every time I tried to form the words in my head, they dissolved into panic.What if he didn't want children? What if he thought I had gotten pregnant on purpose to t
HudsonMy breath hitched as my hands clenched into fists by my sides.The video jumped ahead, showing Julius leading Jane through a back exit toward the parking garage."This is where it gets interesting," Stanton said. He pulled up another video, this one showing the parking garage. The angle was not great, but I could make out Julius's car parked in a corner spot.And then I saw movement inside the car. Two figures, close together. The windows were tinted, but every so often I could see flashes of pale skin, Jane's auburn hair, the white fabric of her wedding dress bunched up around her waist."She fucked him in the car," I said, my voice hollow. "She fucked my father in his car while I was standing at the altar waiting for her.""That is what it looks like, yes. The timestamp puts this about an hour after the ceremony was supposed to start."I felt something inside me crack. All this time, I had told myself that Jane had run away because she was emotional and because she could not
JaneJulius froze. For one terrible, endless moment, his lips were still against mine and his body was rigid with shock. I had made a mistake. A horrible and irreversible mistake. I was kissing my fiancé's father. The man who was supposed to become my father-in-law in less than twenty minutes. Wh
JaneJulius Armstrong's piercing grey gaze locked with mine, and I didn’t think it was possible, but the humiliation grew even worse. It wasn't enough that I had caught my fiancé fucking my best friend minutes before our wedding. It wasn't enough that Hudson had kept going, had mocked me and had
JaneThe woman staring back at me in the mirror looked like a bride. White lace clung to curves I had learned to hide and to despise. My auburn hair was pinned into an elegant updo that had taken the stylist two hours. My makeup had been carefully applied to make my green eyes look less tired and
HudsonI straightened my tie in the bathroom mirror, checking my reflection with satisfaction. I was perfectly composed and there was not a strand of hair out of place. No one would ever know I had just spent the last twenty minutes balls-deep in my fiancée's best friend.Maribel emerged from the







