irectly in front of Da
f the decoy SUV, her trembling, f
stition at the top of her lungs. "If the groom sees the brid
ed. "Dante, if you look at her now, y
his eyes plain to see. He grabbed h
solved into hy
uture," she begged through her tears.
t the decoy car, hi
tears. He released her wrists and told her t
ghost-which was exactly what I was-
the movie nights, the lingering dinner da
as a weapon, he abandoned me withou
cramped, oppressive ba
turned her back to the tinted windows, so tha
o the shadows, the fake te
ss visage crept a
my face, livid wi
and and delivered a hard slap across my l
e hit m
cker away, desperate to scream for Dante, to beg
lessly through her body, unable
my arm viciously, sneering down
to get Dante's at
y chin and s
s froze, and terror fl
a plague across my neck and chest-and her fingertips
ed in her mind: the alle
seized my corpse by the shoulders and sh
he yanked open her designer handbag and pulled out a bot
my neck and cheeks, frantic and errati
ted my blackened, purple lips, burying the
y upright against the window, and carefully draped the ve
row sliver and looked out at Da
nd told him a tower
like a log," she said smoothly. "The driver just
reath, and the naked panic dr
wo fingers through the narrow gap, and pi
ld, but his signature arrogance
pt waiting-deliberately playing the high-and-migh
Wake her at the altar
lentina saunte
rtight lie, both of t
ered, cursing me under his breath for s
s always like this," she sighed, then
all returned to
back to life, weaving into a
ide my own ghastly pale, heavily made-up corpse,
t buried alive by the very p
ashed over me and tore my phantom s
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