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Chapter Eleven: Mother of the Groom, Mistress of Disdain

Author: Sharon Rae
last update Huling Na-update: 2025-06-23 00:51:00

The ceremony was over just minutes after it started.

The champagne hadn’t even been poured yet, and already I wanted to shatter the flute against the marble floor.

I stood beside my new husband, Dominic’s like a ghost in a crown—his wife on paper, his pawn in practice. The cathedral’s high ceilings swallowed our silence, while distant applause still echoed off stone walls. Guests lingered, posing for photos, whispering in polished accents.

I felt eyes crawling across my back like ants. I knew the headlines were already being drafted: Blackwood Weds Reynolds’ Battered Bride! Pregnant Mistress or Power Play?

Dominic stood tall beside me, hands folded behind his back. His face was unreadable, carved from stone. He hadn’t looked at me since the final “I do.”

I hadn’t dared breathe. is this even real?

“Sign here,” the officiant said, placing a thick white folder in front of us.

I reached for the pen with fingers that didn’t quite feel like mine. My name—Scarlett Blackwood—flowed out in pra
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