His Substitute Bride Became His Obsession
He crossed the ballroom floor, folder raised, and I watched Vanessa near the champagne fountain, her smile sharpening into something like anticipation.
“This woman,” Adrian announced, loud enough to carry to every corner of the room, “married Damian Blackwood four weeks after our divorce. Four weeks. Does that not strike anyone else as suspicious? A woman who claims to have loved me, remarrying that fast, into that much money?”
Murmurs rippled through the crowd. I felt heat climb my neck, humiliation and fury tangled together so tightly I couldn’t separate them.
“You divorced me,” I said, loud enough for the room to hear. “You served me papers the same day I found out you’d stolen my designs