Chapter 30: Epilogue – Two Years Later
[ASPEN POV – Three Years After The Scandal] Three years. One thousand ninety-five days since I crashed the Khatri wedding […]
Hired to Break Up Their Wedding
When she finds a mysterious job posting: “Discreet individual needed for one-time event role. $10,000 cash. Must be comfortable with morally gray work”—she’s desperate enough to respond.
Chapter 29: Their Wedding
[MARIUS POV – Seventeen Months After The Scandal] Wedding day. Our wedding day. I woke at Rhys’s apartment. Nervous. Excited.
Chapter 28: Wedding Planning
[ASPEN POV – Sixteen Months After Wedding Scandal] Planning our wedding was—opposite. Completely opposite. Of Khatri wedding I’d crashed. That
Chapter 27: The Proposal
[MARIUS POV – Fifteen Months After Wedding] I’d been planning this for weeks. Carefully. Secretly. Perfectly. Not because I needed
Chapter 26: Small Victories
[ASPEN POV – Fourteen Months After Wedding] Small victories accumulated slowly. Quietly. Building into—something bigger. Something real. Like the package
Chapter 25: One Year Post-Scandal
[MARIUS POV – Twelve Months After Wedding] One year. Three hundred sixty-five days since the wedding that changed everything. Aspen
Chapter 24: Bailey’s Speech And Reconciliation
[ASPEN POV – Eleven Months After Wedding] Bailey found me crying in her guest room. Again. Third time this week.
Chapter 23: Separation
[MARIUS POV – Eleven Months After Wedding] Two months without Aspen. Sixty-three days. 1,512 hours. 90,720 minutes. Not that I
Chapter 22: Aspen’s Fear
[ASPEN POV – Nine Months After Wedding] I was destroying him. Slowly. Daily. Destroying him. The realization came three weeks
Chapter 21: Six Months Later
[ASPEN POV – Eight Months After Wedding] Six months after settlement. Six months of—normalcy. Beautiful, boring, complicated normalcy. The legal