mily was sponsoring. I was trying to reclaim my life, to show the world and myself that I wa

to his other arm, was Sarah. She was wearing a dress that was too tight, looking a little out of place bu

saw me. She whispered something to Liam, and he looked up. Our eyes met. T

me, dragging his n

said, his

plied, matchin

," he said, his voice low but sharp.

he woman who conspired to ruin my wedding? The woma

event, Liam. And I' m certainly not the one who should

ways about your money and your name. You never understood

ot back, glancing at Sarah, who

unger cousin, a hot-headed law student

elling Ava to leave. You' re the one who cheated. You' re the one who abandoned her at the altar. Everyone here knows it.

ith fury. "This is none

business,"

f I were something he had scraped off his shoe. That look hurt more than the abandonment. It told

hloe, tugged on Sarah' s

d in a voice that carried. "The one who m

fell silent. Sarah had been poisoning her daughter' s mind again

s startup. Ambitious, but not particularly talented. She came from a family with no connections

ng used as a pawn. The pity I might have felt was burned away by a cold, clarifying a