My Fiancée Faked Her Death—But I Really Died
The night before our engagement, my fiancée, Yvonne Gomez, died.
The police said her car had crashed through a guardrail and plunged into the river. All they found was a bloodstained watch.
The entire Gomez family blamed me.
"If she hadn't gone out to buy you a wedding ring, none of this would've happened!"
"You're a living curse! Wasn't getting your parents killed enough? Now, you've killed your fiancée too!"
Ernie Young, a junior she had gone to school with, played her final voice message as he cried. "Don't die for me. Go live a good life."
I held her watch and kept vigil at the funeral home for three days.
On the fourth morning, I put on the white suit she liked best and we