The Unwilling Wife

ainting my white wedding d

n who despised me, believing the l

rchestrated perfectly by my stepsister, Soph

iant architect, as the luckiest woman

lips-a whispered surrender-a b

room, the floral wallpa

years ago, the day of my first we

ugh me; I wasn't J

smaller, older phone: "Julian's family is coming for

hia would introduce me to the Thornes, setting off the

there, seeing me as a social climber, exac

future I knew was coming: the Thorne family's imminent fi

sn't the naive girl

d I would not spend another

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