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?

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

tens, hundreds of

well, otherwise, she wouldn't have used Aiden's life as a

wanted me, just my fortune,"

Did he really think

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

Shirley Travis, a young and fresh-faced woman, who ended

Was that love?

for his

you care?" Conrad murmured, "If you were after my money too, you wouldn't have... left

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

much, calling me foolish for letting Conrad walk away unscathed

just foolish,"

Conrad called my name, "did you

After all the years I loved him,

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