My Boyfriend’s Wedding Gift Is Fake
The day my father was diagnosed with liver cancer, I took out the cash gift I had received from my wedding to cover the emergency costs.
The bank teller counted the amount multiple times.
At that moment, I learned that out of the twenty thousand dollars cash gift Peter Grant’s family had given me a year ago, eighteen thousand dollars were counterfeit.
I went home with the fake money to demand an explanation. My mother-in-law, Deborah, stepped on my father’s picture and called him a worthless man who deserved to die.
Peter refused to divorce me. He demanded that I pay back the twenty thousand dollars in cash before he would agree to the divorce.
When I refused, he started a live stream. He held up my undergarments for tens of thousands of viewers to see.
“Look at what my wife is wearing. Is she trying to save her dad, or is she trying to seduce him?
“We’ve been married for a whole year, and she hasn’t even given me a single child. Now she wants a divorce? This is marriage fraud. She scammed us out of the cash gift!”
The comments section hurled insults at me. Someone threw dung on our front porch. Someone even edited my family’s faces onto old-fashioned funeral portraits and posted them online.
The whole internet said my family deserved to die.
What they did not know was that when that money was put into the safe, the whole thing had been caught on camera. The security seals on the cash bundles were covered in Peter’s family’s fingerprints.
They also did not know that I had picked up the wrong medical report.
The one with cancer was not my father. It was actually Deborah.
Later, Peter knelt on the floor begging me to give him some money to save his mother.
I kicked his hand away and said coldly, “I still have your counterfeit eighteen thousand dollars. I’ll give it all back to you. Is that enough to cremate your mother?”