The wrong bride
“You lost the right to use that word the second you dragged the Sterling name into total disgrace.”
“I didn't do anything!” I cried, my chest heaving as panic seized my throat. “Julian deceived me! He spent months planning this! He stole my inheritance, he forged my signature, he used me!”
“And yet, you married him,” Lucas countered, his voice a freezing current that shut down my defense. “You signed the documents. You allowed yourself to be manipulated like a fool. Why should the Sterling family suffer, why should our reputation be tarnished, just because you were too stupid to see through him?”