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Chapter 178

~Kesley~

The car was quiet on the way out of the venue.

I sat beside Niklaus in the backseat and stared out the window at the city moving past us in the dark.

My bouquet was on my lap. My heels were starting to pinch. My head was still processing everything that had happened in that room with Rebecca and grandfather and father and Helen standing there like the evening had decided it wanted to be a courtroom drama instead of a wedding reception.

"You knew," I said finally.

Niklaus d
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