Ruthless Husband, Secret Ruler
She turned toward the elderly marriage officiant, who looked at her with a mixture of pity and profound boredom.
"Do you, Elena Hunt," the officiant began, his voice droning through the microphone, "take Adrian Vance to be your lawfully wedded husband, to have and to hold, in sickness and in health..."
Elena looked at the empty space beside her. For a moment, she imagined a man standing there—a broken, bitter man in a wheelchair, hiding from a world that mocked him just as much as it mocked her. In a strange, twisted way, they were both the trash of their respective families.
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