BACK TO MY WEDDING: MY SECOND LIFE AS A VILLAINESS
It was the same room, the same bed, the same bathroom with the same cold floor.
"Your room hasn't changed," he said. "Mine is across the hall. The lock on your door works from the inside."
"A husband who gives his wife a lock."
"A husband who wants his wife to sleep."
He said goodnight and left. I stood there a while, listening to him walk away. Then I turned the lock, and for the first time in weeks, I slept.
Two weeks later, the whole city knew about the runaway bride.
It was the favorite story at every dinner table. Seraphina Delaine, running out of her own wedding in a ruined dress. Some people said I had gone mad. Some said I had found another man. A few