Daniel’s Confession
Daniel stepped away from Chloe completely.
Then he said the one sentence that turned the entire room from uncomfortable… to catastrophic.
“She told me she was you.”
No one moved.
No one breathed.
Chloe spun toward him.
“You liar!”
But suddenly the entire situation made sense.
The rushed wedding.
The stolen dress.
The private ceremony while I was overseas.
My parents had blessed it because they thought Chloe had secured the richer son.
Daniel had agreed because he believed he was marrying the woman Ethan had once planned to wed.
It was greed built on deception—so reckless it collapsed the moment the truth entered the room.