Todos os capítulos de I Saw the Ending Before My Wedding: Capítulo 1 - Capítulo 8

By the time we found Julie Smith, she was in bed with William.When the door burst open, Julie screamed and threw herself into William's arms.Then she saw the people who had walked in behind me. Terror and disbelief flooded her eyes. She couldn't understand why the Voss family council had taken my side.My family had raised me in a secluded convent to shield me from the feuds between families. They had brought me home only six months ago to prepare for the wedding.Apart from William, to whom I had been promised since childhood, almost no one knew what I looked like.Julie had counted on that when she arranged my kidnapping on the road to the wedding. She planned to marry into the Voss family in my place and become its matriarch.What she didn't know was that the Voss family recognized the crest in my hand, not my face.As long as I held my family's crest, Julie could argue until she lost her voice and the Voss family would never recognize her."Julie, you looked after me for more tha

The council discussed it and seemed ready to agree. Marcus opened his mouth to make the decision official.The floating comments flashed before my eyes again.[This is bad. The council thinks Julie is being generous. They're definitely going to force Nora to stay at the Voss estate as a servant.][Once William and Julie use her identity to swallow the Hathaway family's businesses, territory, and bank accounts, they'll kill Nora without a sound and tell everyone she died by suicide during a psychotic episode.][Poor Nora. There is no one who can help her.]I read the comments and gave a humorless laugh.If I waited for someone to save me, they'd arrive in time to collect my body.What made them think the eldest daughter of the Hathaway family had no way to fight back?I snatched the gun from the guard beside me and, before anyone reacted, aimed it straight at William."I came here to marry William, not to become your maid. If you won't allow that, I'll shoot him, and he can marry me in

Our people crowded around me while the family doctor crouched in front of me and cleaned the gunshot wound with antiseptic. The bullet had passed straight through my wrist, and the edges were already inflamed. Frowning, the doctor said it had barely missed the tendon.Their voices overlapped around me without pause."Nora isn't going to scar, is she? Scars aren't pretty on a girl.""We're the Hathaway family. Scars are medals. Why would we fear one more?""Everyone knows Don Hathaway treasures Nora above everything. Once he hears about this, he'll want to put a shell through the Voss estate.""If you ask me, if the Voss family is this rotten, there's no reason for an alliance. The Hathaway family survived before them and will survive without them."Jack stood off to the side with his arms folded, saying nothing, only watching me.My eyes stung. Surrounded by them, I felt utterly safe.When word came that William had arrived, Julie suddenly went limp and collapsed on the floor.William

William tried to object, but it was already too late.With the family's transport lines and border territory at risk, Marcus couldn't refuse to investigate.Jack's lieutenant took a team and turned William's private warehouse upside down.The first thing they found was a black tactical jacket with blood on it.A broad, blackened bloodstain covered one cuff, and the jacket's cut exactly matched the one worn by the kidnappers' leader in the dock-surveillance footage.Then William's private physician came forward as a witness.On the night after the kidnapping, William had asked him to treat a wound on his wrist.Far more came out of that warehouse.Jack's men found three handwritten ledgers inside a hidden compartment in the wall. They recorded in detail how William had skimmed profits from the Hathaway transport line, used Hathaway docks for unreported weapons shipments, and engineered one fatal accident after another for the people managing our routes.Tucked into the last page was a l