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?

what's that compared to the benefits of

gifted me an amusement park, but his worth was tens, hundreds of those parks. Becoming

have used Aiden's life as a

me, just my

laugh. Did he really

the wealthy, how many truly married for love and not for alliances or financial

fresh-faced woman, who ended up with Lord

Was that love?

for his

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

for wealth and status, I could have turned a blind eye, at least until after the marriage. That

me foolish for letting Conrad walk away

just foolish," I replied,

name, "did you ever

the years I loved him, he dared to ask

"Conrad, it's like you're not satisfied with just killing someone; you have