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Jilted Bride: Marrying The Disabled Billionaire

Chapter 2 

Word Count: 800    |    Released on: 21/08/2026

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ave. I had to ask him, face to face, if

around to see my adoptive father, Lanny Baldwin. His

as f

n't you embarrassed us enough for one

king over me with disgust, as if I were a damaged product.

family was standing completely on his side. "It

said, crossing her arms, her face a mask of smug satisfaction. "It

air, twisting it into a knot in her hands. "The Baldwin name

s and crawling up my spine, spreading to my limbs. Not a word of comf

whiskey. "I raised you for twenty years, fed y

e investing," I finished for him, my voice so calm it made him

led a number, tore it off, and slapped it into my h

ough to last a lifetime for an ordin

in, and tossed it into the ice bucket of the champagne cart that was being wheeled awa

pupils c

e eye, each word distinct, "keep it for

the plague. "Let's go, Mabel, don't stand near her-if the ph

ce. "Loser." I watched her, and moved my own lips, silently, but enough for her to read. "Just

the parking garage, not a single

completely. If Devon's departure wa

nce, in my expensive wedding dre

th pity but kept his distance.

ebumps. I had never felt so cold, but I straighte

tears I'd been holding back finally broke free

er cried for these people. A wild, desperate thought be

et anyone se

self to scan my surroundings, sea

the other side of the hotel. There was another wedding happening

kward groups, their faces a mixt

e locked onto a

at alone in a wheelchair. His back was

. Another groo

-nothing plan ign

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Jilted Bride: Marrying The Disabled Billionaire
Jilted Bride: Marrying The Disabled Billionaire
“I was standing at the altar in the grand ballroom of The Plaza Hotel, about to marry my fiancé of three years. But right before saying his vows, he looked at a text, turned pale, and bolted. "Kaelyn is going to kill herself. I can't let her die," he rushed out, abandoning me. I was left alone under the blinding flashes of reporter cameras, the punchline to a cruel public joke. Instead of comforting me, my adoptive parents blamed me for ruining their wealthy business alliance. "Haven't you embarrassed us enough? You're useless," my adoptive father hissed. He shoved a severance check into my hand and abandoned me at the hotel entrance, while my sister mouthed the word "loser". I stood shivering in my heavy wedding dress, an orphan to the entire world once again. I didn't understand why Devon would grind my dignity into the carpet for another woman, and I understood even less how my family could throw me away like trash. I refused to let them see me crumble, and I definitely didn't need their blood money. Looking across the hotel terrace, I saw another abandoned groom sitting alone in a wheelchair. It was Hartwell Madden, the billionaire hockey legend whose fiancée had just dumped him for being crippled. I walked right up to him in my ruined dress, looked into his ice-blue eyes, and made an insane proposition. "My fiancé just left me, and your fiancée did the same. Will you marry me?"”