No More Waiting, She Chooses Love

Conrad stopped speaking, but I already had a hunch, "So, her condition is to be Mrs. Wagner?"

As I finished, Conrad looked up at me, seemingly shocked by my insight.

"You seem to know her quite well," he mocked after a pause.

His words were not hurtful, but they were dripping with irony.

To think she was the other woman, the one who stole my man, and here he was suggesting that I'd somehow schemed against her.

"You're overthinking it. I know what she's up to, not because I understand her, but because her actions make it clear she's greedy for wealth and luxury," I said, as the gloomy sky suddenly brightened.

All along, I thought the transition from night to day was a gradual process, but now I realized it happened in an instant.

No wonder poets describe dawn as a daybreak.

The use of 'break' couldn't be more accurate.

From darkness to light in an instant, if that's not a 'break', what is?

might be valuable, but what's that compared to the benefits of being Mrs. Wagner?" My words left Conrad

had gifted me an amusement park, but his worth was tens, hundreds of those parks. Becoming his wife meant owning half

all too well, otherwise, she wouldn't have used Aiden's

my fortune," Conrad said with

couldn't help but mockingly laugh. Did he

how many truly married for love and not for

who ended up with

Was that love?

Love for his

after my money too, you wouldn't have... left me because

turned a blind eye, at least until after the

as much, calling me foolish for

guess I'm just foolish," I

name, "did you ever truly like

years I loved him, he dared to ask

like you're not satisfied with just killing someone; you have to