After I proposed to Kathy Johnson, my girlfriend of seven years, we went to City Hall to get our marriage license.Instead, she had her bodyguards throw me onto the street.Then, she walked through the doors, hand in hand with her childhood friend, Nate.She didn’t even blink when he saw me sitting there on the ground, shaking with disbelief."Nate's son needs a legal guardian to secure his inheritance from the Johnson Group. The fastest way is for me to marry Nate and adopt the boy.""As soon as the paperwork is finalized, we'll get a divorce. You'll still be the one I really marry."Everyone assumed that I, the man who had been devoted to her for so long, would foolishly wait. After all, I had already waited for seven long years.But that night, I accepted the arranged business marriage my family had prepared for me and took a flight to Center City on the East Coast.I vanished from Kathy's world completely, and no one saw it coming.Five years later, I returned to Westlake City to v
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