. I stood there, stiff in my white lace dre
irlhood, our families and friend
uickly turned i
stake. I don't love you." He spoke of annulment, "false pr
my life, slowly, finding quiet happiness as the secretly married wife
ée, Brittany – my former intern – back into my life. They relentlessl
s Ethan dragged me into a back room, intent on disfigur
etermined to destroy me completely. How could he still hold such power, such venom? Why did h
t of the letter opener hovered inches from my face, a comma
de in, a force of nature, ready to recl