Sweetie Moore
After I finally fulfill my girlfriend, Joanna Quill's 100th wish, she agrees to marry me. But on our wedding day, her assistant, Larry Johnson, storms up onto the stage and holds up a marriage certificate with their names on it.
"Callum, Jo's my wife now. What, you don't feel the slightest bit ashamed trying to steal another man's wife?"
Before I can demand an explanation, Joanna rips off her diamond ring and hurls it at my face. "I told you we should wait a bit, but you just had to rush things. Happy now?"
That's when I find out that to help Larry get his parents off his back about settling down, the two of them quietly registered their marriage a week earlier.
Out in the crowd, Mom—who'd traveled in from our hometown just to see me get married—is so furious that she has a heart attack and gets rushed to the ER.
When I want to pay her medical bill, the hospital tells me my joint account with Joanna is empty. One minute earlier, she'd just burned through the last $7,500 on that card.
Mom dies on the operating table.
The very next second, I refresh my social feed and see Larry's latest post. "To make it up to me, my boss just dropped $7,500 on a watch like it's nothing!"
I let out a bitter laugh and hit the like button. A moment later, Joanna calls, her voice sharp and impatient. "What's with this stunt now? Unlike that post. Once Larry and I are done with this act to fool his parents, I'll marry you and give you a healthy baby so you and your mom can finally be happy, okay?"
She has no idea that Mom is already gone. There's never going to be a future for us.