One Hour and Thirty Minutes

On my wedding day, my groom told me to smile for the guests while he took the bridal car to the airport to fetch his childhood sweetheart, so I smiled, and by the time he came back, I was married to his idol's son.The sun was sitting right on top of the flower arch, and there wasn't a single patch of shade anywhere on that lawn.I had been standing under that arch for one hour and thirty minutes. We weren't waiting for the officiant, and we weren't waiting for the rings. We were waiting for Lacey Dunn, because Trent had decided that his wedding could not start until his childhood sweetheart was sitting in the front row to watch it. I had found that out three days ago, and I had told myself it was sweet.Sweat was running down my back under all that lace, and I could feel my makeup sliding at my hairline. The roses in my bouquet had started opening too fast in the heat. Every guest was fanning themselves with a programme by now, and the poor quartet was on its third round of the same

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If You Leave

The quartet stopped playing. Nobody on that lawn moved, and Gloria kept her finger right where it was, an inch from my mother's nose."Look at your daughter up there with that long face, all because my son wants to help a sick friend," she said, and she turned around so both sides of the aisle could get a good look at her. "Is that what you taught her? To be a selfish, ungrateful bitch on her own wedding day?"My mother looked down at the bag in her lap. Her fingers tightened on the clasp, but she didn't say a word. She had never once raised her voice in public in her whole life, and she wasn't going to start for Gloria Marsh."Typical country trash," Gloria said. "I knew it the first time I saw her. No manners, no class and no gratitude." She looked my mother up and down, from the old blue dress to the flat shoes, and her mouth twisted. "Did you even bring a gift? Or did you think your pathetic presence here was enough?"In the fourth row, Trent's friends from the office started laug

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So You Finally Came to Your Senses

For a long moment, Hollis Wexley didn't say anything at all.He just stood there with one hand on the roof of the car and looked at me. He looked at my hair hanging down on one side, and at the red marks on my scalp where the pins had been, and at my makeup running down my cheeks. Then his eyes went down to my bare feet on that burning gravel, and something in his face changed. It was very small. His jaw went tight, and he frowned, and for some reason that frown was not aimed at me.He took off his suit jacket. He didn't say a word while he did it. He just folded it once and dropped it on the gravel in front of me, lining side down.I stared at it. "What are you doing?""Stand on it," he said. "Your feet are burning."His voice was lower than I remembered, and very calm. I had sat at the same table as this man maybe ten times in my life, and I wasn't sure I had ever heard him say a full sentence. I stepped onto his jacket because my feet really were burning, and the relief was so sudd

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The Cane

Uncle Walter didn't hurry. He never had, not in all the years I had known him. He came down the stone path one slow step at a time, and the tip of his cane clicked on every stone, and every person at that gate went quiet to listen to it.Gloria lowered her phone a little. She didn't know who he was to me. All she knew was that this was Walter Wexley, the man her son had been chasing for two years, the man Trent talked about at every single dinner. I watched her fix her hat with one hand and try to arrange her face into something pleasant."Mr. Wexley," she said, and her voice had gone high and sweet. "I'm so sorry you had to see all this. This girl has been nothing but trouble from the start, and I was just telling her—""Woman."He didn't raise his voice. He didn't need to. Gloria's mouth stayed open, but nothing else came out of it.Uncle Walter stopped a few feet from her and rested both hands on top of his cane."If you say one more word," he said, "I will cancel every deal your s

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All Chapters of Too Late, Mr. Ex: I Am A Billionaire's Wife: Chapter 1 - Chapter 4

One Hour and Thirty Minutes

If You Leave

So You Finally Came to Your Senses

The Cane