Bride by Default
The dress was the one I'd changed into in a Singapore airport bathroom: deep navy, fitted, quietly good in the way clothes are when they weren't chosen for an occasion.
I looked straight ahead.
Adrian was at the altar, watching me approach with an expression I couldn't fully decode and didn't have the bandwidth to try.
The vows were the standard form. Nothing personalized, nothing that acknowledged the extraordinary wreckage of the last two hours. Just the old words, spoken in a cathedral already asked once today to witness a marriage, being asked, with remarkable composure, to witness another.
I do.
His voice was steady. Unhesitating.
When he slid the ring onto my finger, his thumb pressed
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