The Heiress You Threw Away

came back in l

y Vance. The engagement party was

e; she looked mean. Her face was a mess of bad plastic surgery, lips overfilled into a permanent sneer, and

han was marrying? The

ss, intelligence, and inner beauty. Brittany Vanc

n Noah had forwarded me. It was

for myself. I ha

nd of thing I always wore. I didn't need to

ing for

hrough a side entrance, my face hidden in the shadows. Fr

forced. Beside him, Brittany clung to his arm, her loud, grating lau

hed him, his whole body tensed. He would subtly pull away, only for he

ss!" the crowd

, egged on by Brittan

alight with triumph. She puckered

tible movement, but I saw it. He turned his head slight

ct of defiance,

, honey, what' s wrong?" she purred, loud enough for

weet, but there was a

the room as if searching for an escape. He looked cornered, defeated. He too

it. I couldn't

was moving. I pushed through the crowd

tha

The chanting stopped. Every head

d mine across the ballroom. For a split second, I saw it

k slammed ba

r eyes landing on me. A look o

" she screeched, her voice

tirely on Ethan. "Ethan,

f as the woman he' d spent the last four years with, Et

stalker in here

hit me harder th

to a one-sided obsession. The man I loved, the man I thoug

. They were pleading with me. Plead